buckshot plevna
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Just wondering if anybody could give us a suggestion or two on recording our drums properly, here's the lo-down
We'll be recording in a HUGE hall, the room is by my guess, roughly 35ft. by 40ft. and about 20-25ft. high. I know it sounds excessively big BUT #1 we can get this hall for free (as recording artists we all know how valuable that is) #2 the building is about 115 years old so it's all wood flooring and stone which make for a great natural reverb from the walls, and #3, the ceiling is barn shaped, which also adds huge sound. All in all the hall (hey I rhyme!) is spectacular sounding, we've done some recording there already and were blown away by the sound we obtained, but the method we used consisted of placing 13 mics all over the on the kit, including two mics at either end of the hall.
Was this the best approach?
We are debating to try and place only 4 or 5 of our best top end quality mics in the 4 corners of the hall and maybe hang a condenser mic from a light fixture 15 ft off the floor. Would this obtain a better sound? My argument is although the room produces a great sound, if any of the individual parts of drum aren't loud enough, we can't turn them up because the mics pick up everything at once.
If you think neither of these methods are good, or think you have a better one, please don't hesitate to comment...thanks
some of our mics include
sm-57
sm-58
high end audio technica dynamic
an old sony condenser (but works great!)
an audio technica set of drum mics (two snare/tom, two bass drum/floor tom mics)
and about 5 or 6 other half decent mics but nothing that would get a really high quality sound
anyhoo, I think that's a long enough post, thanks again,
BP
We'll be recording in a HUGE hall, the room is by my guess, roughly 35ft. by 40ft. and about 20-25ft. high. I know it sounds excessively big BUT #1 we can get this hall for free (as recording artists we all know how valuable that is) #2 the building is about 115 years old so it's all wood flooring and stone which make for a great natural reverb from the walls, and #3, the ceiling is barn shaped, which also adds huge sound. All in all the hall (hey I rhyme!) is spectacular sounding, we've done some recording there already and were blown away by the sound we obtained, but the method we used consisted of placing 13 mics all over the on the kit, including two mics at either end of the hall.
Was this the best approach?
We are debating to try and place only 4 or 5 of our best top end quality mics in the 4 corners of the hall and maybe hang a condenser mic from a light fixture 15 ft off the floor. Would this obtain a better sound? My argument is although the room produces a great sound, if any of the individual parts of drum aren't loud enough, we can't turn them up because the mics pick up everything at once.
If you think neither of these methods are good, or think you have a better one, please don't hesitate to comment...thanks
some of our mics include
sm-57
sm-58
high end audio technica dynamic
an old sony condenser (but works great!)
an audio technica set of drum mics (two snare/tom, two bass drum/floor tom mics)
and about 5 or 6 other half decent mics but nothing that would get a really high quality sound
anyhoo, I think that's a long enough post, thanks again,
BP