Anyone think I should bother to try to isolate drum mic's for zero leakage from Kik?

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Has anyone gotten to do this well? I mean perfectly? I am considering taking my crappy kik playing and replacing it w/ a machine, but leaving the rest of the kit. The only way to actually play the whole kit and replace the kik, would be to isolate w/ zero leakage, b/c w/ some real kik in there, it would be totally crappy to have a machine competing/doubling, etc....

Does anyone actually do this? I'd really rather play the kik rather than take the beater off and have that very odd feel going on w/ my foot, that's too starange....
 
Try a different approach. Play with minimal micing, using the overheads as a main part of the sound. Experiment with an ambient room mic. Have some fun!
 
zero bleed will give you a very stale sounding kit.

Try to get the best overall kit sound from your stereo overheads then mic the kick & snare and bring them in underneath. Have you tried using gates?
 
Set up a kick pad. It wont make enough noise to bleed through any of your set mics, and you wont have that weird lack of resistance on your foot.
 
Here is what you do.

Use one mic per drum, 2 overheads. BUY a program called drumagog (it will replace your sounds).


RECORD. If you don't like how your snare sounds, replace it, same goes for everything else. Your overheads should capture the cymbals nicely and you can roll off a lot of everything else in the lows and mids if you really want to isolate the drums. After you record, you can throw a noisegate on all the tracks you want isolated and then put drumagog on them. Drumagog even has a built in noisegate mechanism but you can use a regular one in your multitrack software.

I do this approach and it sounds amazing. I went with the "V-Drums" for a while but could never get the real feel of the playing even with a great synth such as Drumkitfromhell superior.

Ryan
 
Thread is a year old, I don't think he's waiting for advice, and if he is, it might be about his medication.
 
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