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skiz
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just wonderin what delays you guys would recommend for kick and snare? and what settings you use
I have never, and I don't know anyone who ever has, used a delay on drums.
OK, I'm exxagerating, it's sometimes used on Reggae "dub" type stuff. But why would you ever want to put a delay on any drum??? Unless you meant "reverb", in which case, that's used almost all the time.
not a lot of delay,
ive found using a small bit of delay of delay time like 5ms with really fast decay helps to fatten up my snare but the standard delay with cubase doesnt sound that great
yes, because i have a crappy snare and no money for better equipment unfortunately
as for the kick im using a beta52 on it and placing it inside about 3 inches away from the beaters and well i cant get it to cut through either. im new to home recording. im just messing around to see what things do.
i can understand the good room helping with snare and everything
but how does the room really help with the kick seeing as the mic is inside the drum? also how much mic technique can there be with a kick, as the mic is just inside, 3 inches away from the batter head pointing straight at the beaters.
Move the mic and see what a difference it makes. Try different things. You may need to tune the drum differently. You have to try stuff.i can understand the good room helping with snare and everything
but how does the room really help with the kick seeing as the mic is inside the drum? also how much mic technique can there be with a kick, as the mic is just inside, 3 inches away from the batter head pointing straight at the beaters.
Dude, turn up your monitors. Whatever "volume" you lose by bringing the other stuff down so you can hear the kick can be regained by turning your monitors up. If your other tracks are drowning out the kick, bring them down to it. Don't keep turning the kick up and up and up. You can get the overall loudness back later once the actual mix is good.also with the whole turning everything else down, then the volume of the overall track will drop a bit and sound weak if i have to start turning everything down to get the kick to come through.
I couldn't agree more.As far as Eq'ing, instead of boosting 90-12-Hz, try cutting 225-400kz first. Often cutting is much more natural sounding than boosting.
Move the mic and see what a difference it makes. Try different things. You may need to tune the drum differently. You have to try stuff.
Dude, turn up your monitors. Whatever "volume" you lose by bringing the other stuff down so you can hear the kick can be regained by turning your monitors up. If your other tracks are drowning out the kick, bring them down to it. Don't keep turning the kick up and up and up. You can get the overall loudness back later once the actual mix is good.
ok cool, how do i get that "loudness" back once the mix is good?
normalization and compression of the overall track or what would you guys do?
Yeah. Don't sweat getting it as loud as commercial CD's. Just get it to sound good on it's own. Work on getting a good mix before you go worrying about loudness.