Fellow-one-roomers (drum vibrations)

[cellardweller]

I've got all of my crap crammed into a small, somewhat irregular room (as opposed to...?). I had my guitar amp sitting within 4 feet of my drums, when I heard what can only be described as someone dragging a garbage bag full of broken glass. For a minute I thought my tubes were going out again. Turned out to be the lower snare head and springs/hi-hats vibrating/rattling.

I've since moved my amp (8 feet away), cover each individual piece prior to recording guitars, and then cover the set with a large comforter/cover, but I can still hear them vibrating occasionally...

Anybody fought and conquered this demon, or am I screwed as long as everything is in such close proximity?

 

[Cloneboy Studio]

It's a tough issue to solve, but decoupling the drum kit and guitar amp from the floor can cut it down a bit. As can cotton ball/taping the snares a bit.

 

[Adam P]

Take the top hat off if its rattling, and "turn off" the snare drum (I don't know the technical term for this, but I'm talking about flipping the lever that lowers the snares so that they're off of the bottom head).

If you're close micing a loud guitar amp and can still pick up sounds from the snares after you do this, I don't know what to tell you, but I've done multitrack recordings of my band's rehearsals before and the guitar mic didn't pick up a full drum kit even though it was only about 5 feet away.

Edit: I was assuming that you were recording instruments individually. If not, then disregard what I said.

 

[cellardweller]

Der... why didn't I think of that ("turning off" the snare).

The amp is off of the floor, drums are on carpet, which sits on concrete (no my cellar does not have dirt floors ), which is as de-coupled as I can currently provide.

I'll try the cottonball thing also, good idea...
And yes, I'm recording tracks individually.

Thanx guys...

 

[larry_emder]

Just remember that you can hear snare rattle in "wind cries mary" by hendrix......if he didnt mind too much then neither should you!

 

[ecktronic]

Just remember that you can hear snare rattle in "wind cries mary" by hendrix......if he didnt mind too much then neither should you!

Best to avoid as much spill as possible at tracking unless going for a special spill sound.

As someone mentioned earlier you shouldnt get much drum rattle spill at all if you are close micing the cab. Try cranking the amp up louder to get less drum rattle spill. And yeah turning the snare off is a must!

 

[Noplasticrobots]

Wind Cries Snare Rattle

Off topic, but I just listened to The Wind Cries Mary and I didn't hear any snare rattle at all. I know there's a Hendrix song where you can hear a piece of paper that was on a music stand being flipped, is that maybe what you were thinking of? Maybe it's been fixed during all the reissues? If you have a CD let us know when in the song this occurs.

 

[jonnyc]

yeah just turn off the snare and raise the top hat a little shouldn't have any problems, I often leave the kit in the room when i record guitars and as long as the snare is flipped off i never have a problem.