Drum recording suggestions

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Recorded to multi-track, but haven’t added any eq or effects yet.

Does anyone have any suggestions or comments, etc?

Thanks,
Mike
 
ermmm im not an expert. snare sounds a litlle loose. kicks a bit rubley - not enough punch. tuning could be improved. everything sounds a litlle muffled. what kit do you have? heads? and mics.
 
Those are the main complaints I have as well. I'm using Remo Emperor Coated top heads on the toms, Evans HDD (the one with the holes in it?) on the snare. Snare is Ludwig acrolite - kit is yamaha maple custom. Everything was recorded in my garage, with lots of sheets laid around trying to kill the major echo.

The snare sounds real punchy live - I love how it sounds, but it isn't translating to recording well at all.

Mics:
overheads - two mxl 990s
snare - sm57 and mxl 991 on top (trying to add some punch with the 991)
kick - shure beta 52
hi-hat - generic shure

As you can see we're just beginning to build our mic closet.
 
youre not gonna want to use that condenser on the top because it might harm the diaphram. And even so, a 57 on top to capture those high pressure levels accurately, and maybe that condenser on the bottom to get some of the snare's tonal characteristics.
 
Compress the kick. EQ some 3k into it and turn it up. Turn up the 57 on the snare. It just sounds like tuning issues and you have the overheads too loud.

Close mic'ing the toms would be the way to go. If you are using the overheads to pick up everything and you have a crummy sounding room, you are sunk.

The flabbyness in the snare is either the strainer not being tight enough or the room being bad.
 
Your 2 mics on the snare could be recorded out of phase. You should be a ble to get a very good snare sound with the SM57 only.

The second mic on the bottom head may help. . .
 
mentil69 said:
youre not gonna want to use that condenser on the top because it might harm the diaphram. And even so, a 57 on top to capture those high pressure levels accurately, and maybe that condenser on the bottom to get some of the snare's tonal characteristics.
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snares don't damage condensers. many dynamic mics have silmilar spl ratings as condensers.
 
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