Dis oh nance Jam

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What ta ya make if this?

Three mics on the drums in a Glyn Johns set. One over head 43" above the snare and one to the right at 43" from the snare. One on the kick.

All the drum mics are mono tracks.

Too much kick in the right mic. Tried to compensate by panning.

Cymbals are washed?

Some gating on the kick. No dampers on anything but the snare, where I used a dead ringer.

Some verb on the GJ mics.

Any suggestions on how to tame this kind of mic set is warmly welcome.
 

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Woah, this one nearly sailed off the edge of the world without a reply. Would have been a shame.

Love the guitars and the bass - some nice counter melodies and very Pavement sounding. I think you could weave a good melody over them if that was a direction you wanted to take it.

Not sure about the drums though. Until around the 0.43 mark, they sound quite brittle (in the tracking rather than the playing sense). I don't know anything at all about tracking drums though unfortunately.

Hope you develop the idea on this jam.
 
Well thanks Rob. I was going to file this one under “tacit approval”.
Thanks for the comment. I’ll see if I can hear any brittleness thru my near fields; although that would most likely be my lack of mixing skills. I am mainly concerned with capturing the kit with three mics.
 
Manslick said:
Well thanks Rob. I was going to file this one under “tacit approval”.
Thanks for the comment. I’ll see if I can hear any brittleness thru my near fields; although that would most likely be my lack of mixing skills. I am mainly concerned with capturing the kit with three mics.
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Not sure if I'm explaining myself properly with 'brittle' - in the early parts they sound a little fizzy and lacking body. Possibly in the relationship between the snare and the hi-hats?

As I said before though, you could fit the entirity of my knowledge about tracking drums on the back of a postage stamp, and still have room to write enough to fill the back of a postage stamp on the back of a postage stamp...

Hopefully someone else can be of more specific help.
 
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