
JimmyS1969
MOODerator
Heres me:
I can get a drum set sounding good. I want it to sound fantastic. If i get a band in that wants to track im not going to do all the stuff that they should already have done or know how to do. Gateing and compression and eq and limiters are all the norm on almost all records. I have not once seen anyone that is recording a modern rock album do nothing to the drums but mic, eq, and compress them. Ive listened to greg l's stuff on his site and the drums seem more processed than just compression and eq. Not to sound like im doubting his said approach but most of us that record at home do not have a treated room and the best mics, or a neve 8068 console. So post production is a big part of a home studio setup. Dont get me wrong here, im not new to recording im just wondering what other angles i could use to go at certain situations. Please dont think im coming off rude but tuning and mic placement is a big part of the picture but that is mostly the canvas and all the other stuff is the paint.
Heres greg:
Well, they're not. Good or bad, they're just drums with modest, simple processing. I don't do half the extraneous processing that most guys talk about doing.
You're coming off as a little unnecessarily defensive. You can't paint without a good canvas. And if a band comes in and wants to track, it's not up to them to tune and mic their kit. It's up to you, as the engineer/producer, to get that stuff right. Are you just gonna plop some mics on the kit not knowing if it's tuned right and then process the shit out of later on to hopefully make it sound good? That's ass backwards and will not work. You wanna make pro sounding stuff, so do it like the pros. They don't half-ass the basics hoping to fix it later. They nail the basics and the extra stuff later makes it shine even more.
As for what you have and don't have, at least treat your fucking room.
How could that look like i started this argument? I made a statemnet that he didnt like. that wouldnt have bothered me at all. So who is the sensitive one?
And you found his response there a reason to lash out and get pissed off? I sure hope you don't ever have children.