jaykeMURD
I sit on you.
Haha, I stumbled across my old thread here and what do you know!
I'm revamping it!
So here I am 9 months later, and no babies (elec. drumset).
Lost a job, wrecked a car, you know all that good stuff.
As far as practicing goes, I was able to play a lot for a month or two, until I was moved to a different shift, which rendered me unable to practice during the week. I like the hours I work, and I'm lucky to have the job that I do, so I won't change that. It's been a downward spiral in skill for about 2 months now.
Anywho. Back in the same predicament, except now I'm looking into the recording aspect. The practicing is turning into full-fledged recording. I've been writing and composing songs prolific-ly and tend to hit a major road block when it's 3AM on a Monday and I need to get a drumline down. It KILLS me. Often times I'll hit that roadblock and will trash the song. A hard-rock song with everything but drums is really weak and makes me sad....therefor stomping my will to finish it.
As a matter of fact, a friend of mine was browsing through my saved projects and listened to a few "trashed" projects, and was blown away.
"Dude, why haven't you finished that?"
"What happened to this song?"
After about 30 minutes of this I realized the severity of my problem.
I need to record drums SILENTLY (almost silent).
So now sound quality will come into play.
I've done a little more researching and got the chance to play on one of Hart's High-end kits. Roland TD20 brain, of course. It was pure heaven. Sounded fine to me, and I would venture to say the quality was good enough for semi-pro recordings. Of course, all was heard through some cheapo cans, but nonetheless.
The only real major concern I had with recording edrums was the "human" aspect. When you hit the snare, you never hit it exactly the same (basically), therefore you get different sounds, which is the opposite sound a trigger and brain produces. Very uniform and machine-like. Now, I didn't get to spend 3 weeks programming and tweaking the module, so for all I know the parameters can be edited to suit.... but in the long run I think the decent modules will fill my void.
I've also begun fiddling around with DFH and things of that nature....now I'm wondering if I couldn't just use my computer as the brain. DFH:S really does sound better than the td20 in my ears, but can a complete trigger drumset be plugged into my computer and recorded that way?
I'm just worried. Then again, say I drop 3-4k on one of these nice Roland kits, I have 30 days to beat the shit out of it and return it if I like.....
ohhhhhhhh. Someone let me borrow their edrum kit!
I'm revamping it!
So here I am 9 months later, and no babies (elec. drumset).
Lost a job, wrecked a car, you know all that good stuff.
As far as practicing goes, I was able to play a lot for a month or two, until I was moved to a different shift, which rendered me unable to practice during the week. I like the hours I work, and I'm lucky to have the job that I do, so I won't change that. It's been a downward spiral in skill for about 2 months now.
Anywho. Back in the same predicament, except now I'm looking into the recording aspect. The practicing is turning into full-fledged recording. I've been writing and composing songs prolific-ly and tend to hit a major road block when it's 3AM on a Monday and I need to get a drumline down. It KILLS me. Often times I'll hit that roadblock and will trash the song. A hard-rock song with everything but drums is really weak and makes me sad....therefor stomping my will to finish it.
As a matter of fact, a friend of mine was browsing through my saved projects and listened to a few "trashed" projects, and was blown away.
"Dude, why haven't you finished that?"
"What happened to this song?"
After about 30 minutes of this I realized the severity of my problem.
I need to record drums SILENTLY (almost silent).
So now sound quality will come into play.
I've done a little more researching and got the chance to play on one of Hart's High-end kits. Roland TD20 brain, of course. It was pure heaven. Sounded fine to me, and I would venture to say the quality was good enough for semi-pro recordings. Of course, all was heard through some cheapo cans, but nonetheless.
The only real major concern I had with recording edrums was the "human" aspect. When you hit the snare, you never hit it exactly the same (basically), therefore you get different sounds, which is the opposite sound a trigger and brain produces. Very uniform and machine-like. Now, I didn't get to spend 3 weeks programming and tweaking the module, so for all I know the parameters can be edited to suit.... but in the long run I think the decent modules will fill my void.
I've also begun fiddling around with DFH and things of that nature....now I'm wondering if I couldn't just use my computer as the brain. DFH:S really does sound better than the td20 in my ears, but can a complete trigger drumset be plugged into my computer and recorded that way?
I'm just worried. Then again, say I drop 3-4k on one of these nice Roland kits, I have 30 days to beat the shit out of it and return it if I like.....
ohhhhhhhh. Someone let me borrow their edrum kit!