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cool. whats a speaker mic? and how'd you build one? go on i can tell your dying to tell us.

hey i finished the session last week and we ended up using the akg on the kick, it sounds pretty good and it didn't wreck it. the producer said if it sounds good who cares what it was intended for, and i kind of agree. the producer brought a couple of shure condensers and they were really good...

i might be way off, but would you have to disable your on board sound card? you do on desktops.

yeah i know, its a stupid thing to do, but it sounds really quite good and i'm not a hard hitter. i was worried when i first did it but i have used it quite alot with no casualties (yet). i usually don't mic too close to the head and i don't have a resonant head so the air isn't being compressed...

god, i just read all of this thread. it took hours. i started with a fostex X-26, moved to a fostex FD-4, then to cubase (an old version, you know when it made sense and didn't look shit) then to a fostex e-16. i also use cubase a bit although i hope to be purely analogue when i can afford it...

alot of good stuff said already, as always and a few minor confrontations too :) i think the problems are the sm58, its bound to give a middly messy sound, using a better mic with a higher frequency range will help. the distortion on the original file sounds like a horrible digital pedal i...

i have a MX8000 and i personally think its quite a good desk, the eq section is pretty good and the pre amps out perform my DMP3 by far, which was quite the surprise with behringers reputation. as far as adding on the way in, i think minimal (correctional) eq is ok, but effects are just easier...

yeah i hope the sm58 will do it. there is always the option of akg in the kick one for overhead and a 58 on the snare? or should i always go for stereo? matter of opinion i guess. well thanks i will give both a try, i have decent eq on my desk and the producer is bringing TL audio eq so im sure...

oh thats cool, i have always thought they lack alot of low end. i like a nice muffled warm kick sound. when you say 'close to the head', do you mean the batter head? or resonant? and inside or outside the shell? :)

hey, i am doing a recording session next week. i have five mics available, 3 X sm58s and 2 X AKG C2000Bs. my main concern is recording the drums, i have used the AKGs on the bass drum before with some success, but if i want to use them for overheads then i would have to use a 58 in there. and...

hey, i am doing a recording session next week. i have five mics available, 3 X sm58s and 2 X AKG C2000Bs. my main concern is recording the drums, i have used the AKGs on the bass drum before with some success, but if i want to use them for overheads then i would have to use a 58 in there. and...

yeah i think the def leppard drummer is lop sided. :)

buy a decent real kit and some mics second hand, it will feel real and sound real. or buy an electic kit and it will sound almost real and feel almost real but you will know it isn't. that sort of stuff bothers me but not everyone. my opinion is that if you are making live sounding music i.e not...

or you could be having phase issues. as rami says try it soloed, if it drops in volume when the other tracks are added then it probably is phase, click a phase reverse and see if that helps.

arrrggh triggers. i don't get how drummers can be for these things. anyway if your room has echo and you don't have another available room (and you don't want that 'room sound') then you need to close mic every drum and cymbal seperatley. and since you have eight ins now then you should be fine...

or alternately if by 90 degrees you mean pointing straight down that might be giving a strange sound. try different mic placings.

90 degree angle? do you mean the mic is horizontal? if so it wont be picking up as well as it could as they are very directional. i don't know about anyone else but i always point my 58 at a 45 degree angle right next to the rim. also some guy in the know once told me to have the mic in line...

you all talk like your bands help with carrying your kit. i wish my band would do that. :(

hey, yep as mention cymbal decay is the thing to look out for and how hard you are hitting the drums (or how into it you where). my advice is always to play along before the punch in so on your new recording there will also be a cymbal decaying to match it up to, and you will be hitting the...

I think they are always muddled up with the batter heads. look for resonant drum heads, they normally have a mic hole too. :)