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Maybe throw up some moving blankets on the walls and foam on the ceiling if it's a bad sounding tiny room, you'll need to get as much of the "room" out of the sound as possible by the sound of it.

Fabric on the walls and egg carton foam on the ceiling might do a better job of eradicating alot of the room's nastiness.

First up you could pull down the OH mics, so you're eliminating alot of the nastiness reflecting down from the ceiling. Secondly, change the tom heads, they look knackered. Lastly, don't hit the cymbals so hard, especially the crash, as it sounds tinny and distracting.

One of these snares which I own: It was the first snare I went out and bought and have played ever since, it's just "my" sound.

Opening the door and putting a mic outside the room can really help, particularly if you have a bathroom or kitchen nearby.

Looks good, hope it works out for you. Having your house built like that is brilliant :o

Yeah, either that or take the reso off. Gaffering a blanket over the open head can cut down on some of the bleed.

Ever tried beatboxing?!

A pro studio will make bad playing sound even worse!

Daymn, that's nice, loads of natural light as well.

All those toms but only one kick? :facepalm: :D

Logical thing to do :D

I don't know a great deal of hip hop, but aren't live drums just usually reserved for live shows? To get more of a banging sound out live drums, you'll need the drummer to balance the kit better (smack the kick & snare, caress the cymbals), use a snare with a tonal range close to what you're...

I'm a Man Orch fan as well, though I don't think the drums sound as good on SM as they did on METN. Plenty of opinions have already been posted, all I'd add is that the snares sound pretty loose and the snare sounds like it might be 6.5" deep.

That's a cute meow, nice perch ;) Sadly I don't live where I record, but I imagine my cat would take off running when I'm tracking drums as well.

Maybe it's already been mentioned, but find a singer with a sweet voice?

Maybe you have to look at it from the band's perspective. In one of my previous bands we worked hard on the songs that made up our first EP - we got them down with a click and all the rest of it. We recorded with an excellent producer for bands at the level we were at (Iain Wetherell, Welcome to...

You guys are so damn lucky in North America, having basements. Good luck with it!

I like the mini rack unit, nice!

Don't resort to using triggers/samples to clean things up, get it right in the first place. Take some time and mess around before ending up with a recording which you can't change.