Executivos
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I don't record drums at my studio, I go to a friends studio for that...He uses shure sm81s for overheads. I've understood them to be pretty decent mics.
They don't however sound so great in this instance.
His room is coated in foam and very dry. Average drum sounds at best. My biggest complaint is with the cymbals. It seems like when the crashes are hit the decay doesn't last long AT ALL. These are nice zildjian a custom crashes (something like that)
is it the mics, or the room, or both?
we did some ghetto recordings in our rehearsal studio with my ecm 8000s and the cymbals sounded PERFECT....very nice decay, and these are CHEAP paiste cymbals...our room has an auralex pack up...not too dead...just right.
so once again is it the room or the mics? I'd like to take them over there, but wanted to find out here first....I'm kinda afraid if I suggest my my $35 each mics instead of his sm81s i might either offend him or look like an idiot if they sound like crap.
also im looking for ideas on mixing overheads....leave them dry, maybe some eq, verb, compression, severe compression etc. I know it's a subjective thing, but I'm curious what everyone else does.
They don't however sound so great in this instance.
His room is coated in foam and very dry. Average drum sounds at best. My biggest complaint is with the cymbals. It seems like when the crashes are hit the decay doesn't last long AT ALL. These are nice zildjian a custom crashes (something like that)
is it the mics, or the room, or both?
we did some ghetto recordings in our rehearsal studio with my ecm 8000s and the cymbals sounded PERFECT....very nice decay, and these are CHEAP paiste cymbals...our room has an auralex pack up...not too dead...just right.
so once again is it the room or the mics? I'd like to take them over there, but wanted to find out here first....I'm kinda afraid if I suggest my my $35 each mics instead of his sm81s i might either offend him or look like an idiot if they sound like crap.
also im looking for ideas on mixing overheads....leave them dry, maybe some eq, verb, compression, severe compression etc. I know it's a subjective thing, but I'm curious what everyone else does.