hows my sound?

[Jacko]

first off, i am not a drummer, i am a guitarist whos working on a demo for my band. our drummer has his kit here and i was trying to find a way to record it with only one mic, so please do not judge me on my playing, i just want to know how it sounds and any tips.

I used a audio technica dr-cx1 condenser just over my right shoulder and a presonus pre amp. from there it went to my sound card and into three tracks in adobe audition. one was eq'ed with a V, another was a gated reverb, the third on the first track was dry and the second had compression. I am only 15 years old and all of my money goes to guitar parts or my social life, so i dont really have a budge to buy any other mics right now.

http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=1459 (uncompressed)
http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=1460 (compressed)

thanks

edit: hmmm im curious as to why so much bass got added? when i played it through audition everything sounded fine and now the bass seems to over power everything else...could this be the site or what?

[systmovadown]

for one mic it sounded pretty nice..

thats a very smart idea actually.

i do the same since i only have 4 ins with my delta 44 (dulicate the overheads for the toms)


it sounds ok..
the cymbals sound very dull and like your hitting a garbage can..

what set was used?

[Jacko]

its a gretsch (sp?) renown maple 6 piece set. the cymbols we used were cheap though, 302 high hats. a b8 pro crash and a china star crash. ill see if i can do anything about making them sound better, maybe move them closer?

[PsychoBandito]

wow it sounds really 70's

I guess that is a good thing if you want it to but I personally don't like it

[systmovadown]

yeah try to move them closer...

experiment is good.