Greg's general guide to rock drums for NEWBIES!

[PhilGood]

I've changed my mind. Greg doesn't have a fucking clue about drums.

I, of course, will change my mind in the morning when I sober up.

(I just heard gunshots in my neighborhood!)

[PhilGood]

Greg, nowhere in your post did you list what mics you use.

To borrow from your own vernacular: "Summary please"!

[aidan_m]

And a pic of the micing setup would be good too.. great post!! Thanking you!

[noisedude]

You'll see it again at the other place, fatfuck.

Not if you see me first!

"classic" HR's.


that makes me feel old which is much more painful than fat

I have never experienced 'old' so I don't know. But you shouldn't be offended, you've been here over half a decade and anyway the selection process was determined by a Google search, not by me deciding who were the oldest/best avatar'd members.

[dang donkey]

Many thanks for this.
Lots of valuable info here.

DD

[pandamonk]

Great post, Greg! I gave you rep too recently and it wouldn't let me again, so I repped pandamonk instead.

Thanks for that

[Greg_L]

Greg, nowhere in your post did you list what mics you use.

To borrow from your own vernacular: "Summary please"!

I thought about getting into mics, but there's just too many options to go into all that.

Ready for this?

I use the CAD Pro 7pc kit and an SM57 or pg57. I think it was like 199 bucks for the 7 mics. It may be even cheaper now.

The snare and tom mics are decent. Not great, but okay. I use the kits "snare" mic on my smallest rack tom and a 57 on the snare. The toms get the tom mics. The kick mic is very sensitive to where you put it, but I've tried it against a Beta52 and D6, and they don't really sound any better. They just require a little less EQ. I don't mind Eq'ing the snot out of the kick if necessary. I like this little kit. It's not the best by any means, but I've heard way worse sounds recorded with much better mics.


My kit is not set up right now, but when I set it back up, I'll post some pics.

[killthepixelnow]

Is it possible to make this threat a sticky one? Just asking...
Thanks for your wisdom, Greg

[Greg_L]

Haha, thanks everybody. Hopefully newbs can get something from this. I would have killed for this much info when I was getting started.

[Supercreep]

Nice one, Greg.

For those that don't know, Greg also hits the drums pretty hard.

It does matter.