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Recording: Drums (Day 3 – Finished)
Drums are all finished. We hammered out 9 songs over the course of 3 days and we’re pretty happy with the sounds. The songs have a bunch of tempo and timing changes in them, so it was impossible to nail … Continue reading
Recording: Drums (Day 2)
It’s Day 2, and we’re ready to start tracking. Day 1 was spent converting a church-turned-nightclub into a church-turned-nightclub-turned-studio, setting up a control room, running mics and cables, and doing sound tests. We recorded a bunch of sound tests and … Continue reading
Recording: Drums (Day 1 – Room mic setup)
So I have all of my drum mics setup, and everything is sounding great. I want to capture a the hugeness of the kit, so I setup a pair of room mics that I’ll later mix in to add a … Continue reading
Recording: Drums (Day 1 – Hi-Hat and Ride setup)
At this point, I had the overheads setup, measured and in-phase; setup the kick drum mic; had the snare top- and bottom- mic’d; put top and bottom mics on the rack and floor toms; and placed triggers on the kick, … Continue reading
Recording: Drums (Day 1 – Floor Tom setup)
Ahh floor toms… I wish all drums were as easy to mic as you. Floor toms are usually far enough away from all of the cymbals that there’s rarely any bleeding problems. On JT’s drum kit, the tom mounts to … Continue reading
Recording: Drums (Day 1 – Rack Tom setup)
This drum kit is a simple 4-piece, so there’s only a rack tom and a floor tom to mic. It makes for a nice, tightly-defined stereo image and reduces the number of mic placement issues. It makes my job as … Continue reading
Recording: Drums (Day 1 – Snare setup)
I’ve always had a terrible time recording JT’s snare. From playing style (his right-hand/hi-hat hits are much heavier than his left-hand/snare hits) to cymbal types (he used to have loud hats that were good for live, but bad for recording) … Continue reading
Recording: Drums (Day 1 – Kick drum setup)
Our kick setup was real simple: 1 mic, 1 trigger. Last time we recorded, I used a second mic on the outside of the kick in an attempt to capture more body. Unfortunately, it just made the kick boomy, and … Continue reading
Recording: Drums (Day 1 – Overhead Mics)
The first thing I setup is the overhead mics. These are the hardest to position and get just right, so I do them first so that I can really focus on capturing a phase-coherent sound with a good stereo image. … Continue reading
Recording: Drums (Day 1 – Setup)
Finally time to start recording the final album! First up is drums. Like I said in the last post, we did two rounds of demos for each song, so we’re pretty prepared going into this tracking session. We have the … Continue reading
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