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Greg_L
Banned
I use the Recorderman setup.
One thing you gotta remember....the drums you hear on commercial recordings are generally heavily processed. Take a modern commercial kick drum sound for example; real kicks typically don't sound like that in real life. Pro studios sample replace/blend and/or use multiple mics on the kick drums and other drums. Hell, Tommy Lee uses 3 mics per tom, and still blends in triggered samples. So for us modest home recordists to come anywhere close to those pro sounds with our mediocre equipment and crappy rooms, we gotta sometimes tweak the fuck out of things. Don't fall into the purist no-digital-tweak trap. It's a noble idea, but it's not realistic in the realm we live in if you want to even think about having pro sounding drum tracks. Sure, by all means try to get the best raw sound you can with what you have. But don't be afraid to virtually twist some EQ and compressor knobs if you need to.
One thing you gotta remember....the drums you hear on commercial recordings are generally heavily processed. Take a modern commercial kick drum sound for example; real kicks typically don't sound like that in real life. Pro studios sample replace/blend and/or use multiple mics on the kick drums and other drums. Hell, Tommy Lee uses 3 mics per tom, and still blends in triggered samples. So for us modest home recordists to come anywhere close to those pro sounds with our mediocre equipment and crappy rooms, we gotta sometimes tweak the fuck out of things. Don't fall into the purist no-digital-tweak trap. It's a noble idea, but it's not realistic in the realm we live in if you want to even think about having pro sounding drum tracks. Sure, by all means try to get the best raw sound you can with what you have. But don't be afraid to virtually twist some EQ and compressor knobs if you need to.