Recording the Snare

[Farview]

To everyone that takes hours to cut out all the stuff between drum hits: Look for a function in your DAW called "detect silence". It will cut it for you, you have to set the threshold and you will need to go through and check for things that snuck in or were accidentally cut out, but it will save you a ton of time.

I generally only do this for tom tracks, when I absolutely have to.

 

[saads]

Yup, I think the mic placement was wrong. I had it pointing towards the centre before. I took it back a bit, and pointed it at the rim. I'm also trying to be more 'dynamics conscious'. It does sound better now. I'll try tuning it again too. Could someone post one of their snare tracks? I want to see if I'm on the right track (pun not intended).

 

[Greg_L]

Yup, I think the mic placement was wrong. I had it pointing towards the centre before. I took it back a bit, and pointed it at the rim. I'm also trying to be more 'dynamics conscious'. It does sound better now. I'll try tuning it again too. Could someone post one of their snare tracks? I want to see if I'm on the right track (pun not intended).

Just the snare? I can put something up later.

 

[grimtraveller]

But I've noticed that the bleed going into the kick mic is sometimes more potent than my overheads !

You are doing something stupidly wrong.

It's witchcraft, I tell you !



Yeah, sometimes it's odd because I set the bass drum mic the same way. And sometimes there's alot of bleed and other times, there isn't. Same way that sometimes, when I listen thru phones, I hear a lovely natural reverb on the snare. And other times, none.
I like to experiment with recording drums though. I used to be limited to one track (I'd use a mini mixer with 3 or 4 mics) so it's nice to have more flexibility.

 

[saads]

Just the snare? I can put something up later.

Yup just the snare, thanks.

 

[Greg_L]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19084161/snare.wav

 

[saads]

Ah ok. Yeah I'm definitely getting more bleed than that. I'll try again. Thanks.