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fritzmusic
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Great tracks! Very tight playing. I dig the song too and it IS my cup of tea. Please private message me when you have the full recording done. I'd love to hear what this sounds like fully recorded.
I loaded them both into the audio editor today, played around with some plugins. I tried a touch of small room reverb and a plugin called "More Stereo" and the drum-only track sounded ALOT better to my ears. You seem to have captured everything beautifully but you're about 95% done with this track.
Here's WHY:
The drum sounds in the drums-only track are just far too dry and sterile (even for that "in your face" sound) although the playing is truly outstanding. The kit as it is, sounds like a collective of well sampled drums all set to dead centered pan although I'm sure you properly panned your mics accordingly at the mixer. If you correctly apply some stereo imaging with some light room reverb, it will slightly offset the snare drum, toms and cymbals out aside from the imaginary straight line behind the bass drum to form an aural "image" of a real drumset being played. By offsetting a little, it makes everything more defined and sounds like a real drummer behind a real kit with X,Y micing in a real room (which is sort of why we X,Y mic). That's one of the factors that sets apart a convincing drum track from perfectly sterile samples. You do want your listeners to know it's a real drumset played by a real drummer and any home recordist producer worth their weight on here would probably agree on the importance of realistically creating an image.
Hope that helps you out. Keep up the good work.
I loaded them both into the audio editor today, played around with some plugins. I tried a touch of small room reverb and a plugin called "More Stereo" and the drum-only track sounded ALOT better to my ears. You seem to have captured everything beautifully but you're about 95% done with this track.
Here's WHY:
The drum sounds in the drums-only track are just far too dry and sterile (even for that "in your face" sound) although the playing is truly outstanding. The kit as it is, sounds like a collective of well sampled drums all set to dead centered pan although I'm sure you properly panned your mics accordingly at the mixer. If you correctly apply some stereo imaging with some light room reverb, it will slightly offset the snare drum, toms and cymbals out aside from the imaginary straight line behind the bass drum to form an aural "image" of a real drumset being played. By offsetting a little, it makes everything more defined and sounds like a real drummer behind a real kit with X,Y micing in a real room (which is sort of why we X,Y mic). That's one of the factors that sets apart a convincing drum track from perfectly sterile samples. You do want your listeners to know it's a real drumset played by a real drummer and any home recordist producer worth their weight on here would probably agree on the importance of realistically creating an image.
Hope that helps you out. Keep up the good work.
. Its easier to guess with experience. But dont make any EQ now because i promise you will change it after you add everything else in there. So dont do anything destructive.