Best application for recording drums?

[mcolling]

Seriously, I can't stand Adobe Audition for drums. It has a really slow slew rate; not fast or accurate enough for percussion.

I've also tried Pro Tools, and that sucks donkeys on drums -- especially on cymbals -- too harsh on the cymbals.

Now Sonar, on the other hand ... you gotta' hear the sweet drum tracks that thing is capable of. Wow. It sounds so much more analog -- like you're recording to 2".

k- you're actually just shitting us, right? no program is any different. clearly the bit about bonzo is for a laugh, but is the rest of this post?

 

[KevinDrummer]

I use Cakewalk to good effect for drums.

You said "considering the room". I would suggest heavy deadening of the room to really improve the sound - especially very small rooms. You can always add back the reverb and delay. I have a very small room, and before getting it dead it really sounds like crap due to the very high SPLs of a kit.

 

[pipelineaudio]

If you are talking about just the recording, that one thing but for mixing and editing the drums it IS very different depending on software

This is 2004, and most bands today cannot even dream of playing a part right twice in a row, so there are some definite issues

If you want to do automatic quantization, and are not too concerned about the screwy sound of the stretch and crossfades, then Pro Tools + Beat Detective is your tool

If you want to slice together a few working parts then copy and paste them through the song, ACID is a a good starting point

If Sonar 4 would get its GUI just a tiny bit better, like mouse wheel zoom for example, its new mute tool can make the ULTIMATE tom cleaner

For manually editing the living crap out of a drum track at WARP speed, Vegas cannot be beat

For drums that need little editing, Nuendo is a great app for ear balling the mix to a polish, with an FX handling audio engine that runs pretty damn smooth

lots to consider

 

[Bulls Hit]

there cannot possibly be a difference in the way dry audio sounds between one application and another (bugs notwithstanding) if you set the audio card's capture settings to the same values in both apps (e.g. bit depth, sample rate, preamp settings, etc.)

Once the audio has been converted to digital information by your audio card, it is a bunch of numbers, and nothing any audio app does (effects notwithstanding) will change that.

BoB Katz wouldn't agree with you there. According to Bob the cumulative effect of rounding errors will introduce inharmonic distortion. Some apps are more careful than others in how they deal with errors and so introduce less distortion

 

[chessrock]

k- you're actually just shitting us, right? no program is any different. clearly the bit about bonzo is for a laugh, but is the rest of this post?

Dude ... you obviously haven't tried slammin' your converters way in to the red yet with Sonar.