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HxCHarry
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Hey guys, took my gear out last week to record some stuff with my band.
http://www.myspace.com/internalcorpseattack
It's myspace, I know
We did it at a local practice room, it was a fairly small room, using a premier olympic rockkit with steel snare and two fairly new marshal combos. Bass was DI'd and vocals were overdubbed later at my house.
Drums
I used the following mics,
1 RVD1 inside the kick (Red5Audio) a few inches away from the head and an inch or to the right from where the beater hit. (We took the front head off)
1 Audix I5 on the snare. This was aimed fairly close to the centre of the head.
1 RVD9 (red5audio) on the small, mid and floor tom.
Two RV8 (LDC, Red5Audio) overheads
The kit was just the practice rooms standard kit, didn't have a chance to tune it or dampen anything as we ended up being really pushed for time. I wanted to mic the snare from underneath with a 57 or another I5 but there was no time. To make things worse I had to play the drums for the recording and I tend to hit my cymbals fairly lightly so they don't come out too well on the OHs.
Guitars
Not too sure of the exact amps but they were two fairly new marshal combos, just single driver ones. I miked the rythmn guitarist up with an I5, on axis but at a slight angle in at the cone. And the Lead guitarist got the 57. (Rhytmn guitar =35% left, lead = 35% right)
As I said before, we ended up being pushed for time so we had to do the amps live with the drums and we didn't have a chance for overdubs.
Bass
We just DI'd into the desk, toyed with running it through Guitar Rig 2 but it we were happy with the tone we got without it.
Vocals
These were done on an Audix I5 and went through Voxnegos free tube plugin. The vocalist was a pain to record with, aside from being the most demanding member of the band and the one with the least patience, he wasn't able to stay in one spot. He leaned in whenever he did vocals and had zero volume control, I appriciate it's screaming, but as a vocalist myself I know I can record a decent track at a much lower and consistant volume. I had to go through and set a heap of volume envelopes on his vocal track and he then refused to redo any parts that clipped.
All in all, considering it was very rushed and mostly live I think it went well. If you could, let me know what you think of the quality of the recording and mix. Send along any suggestions, I'm recording a friends band this saturday so I'm hoping to improve the recording alot more. I felt that aside from the snare being a bit weak (it has alot of attack, but not much tone or body) and the overheads being badly placed, I wanted to get more high-mid definition from the guitars, I loved the Audix and so did the guitarists but I pretty much just pointed it in the first place that came to mind as being 'correct' as far as theory goes and not having chance to tweak it, so it's got a nice amount of beef but there's not that much coming from the higher end of the guitar.
So pass on any suggestions you've got, apart from ones about how I should get off my arse and do more fills
Thanks!
http://www.myspace.com/internalcorpseattack
It's myspace, I know
We did it at a local practice room, it was a fairly small room, using a premier olympic rockkit with steel snare and two fairly new marshal combos. Bass was DI'd and vocals were overdubbed later at my house.
Drums
I used the following mics,
1 RVD1 inside the kick (Red5Audio) a few inches away from the head and an inch or to the right from where the beater hit. (We took the front head off)
1 Audix I5 on the snare. This was aimed fairly close to the centre of the head.
1 RVD9 (red5audio) on the small, mid and floor tom.
Two RV8 (LDC, Red5Audio) overheads
The kit was just the practice rooms standard kit, didn't have a chance to tune it or dampen anything as we ended up being really pushed for time. I wanted to mic the snare from underneath with a 57 or another I5 but there was no time. To make things worse I had to play the drums for the recording and I tend to hit my cymbals fairly lightly so they don't come out too well on the OHs.
Guitars
Not too sure of the exact amps but they were two fairly new marshal combos, just single driver ones. I miked the rythmn guitarist up with an I5, on axis but at a slight angle in at the cone. And the Lead guitarist got the 57. (Rhytmn guitar =35% left, lead = 35% right)
As I said before, we ended up being pushed for time so we had to do the amps live with the drums and we didn't have a chance for overdubs.
Bass
We just DI'd into the desk, toyed with running it through Guitar Rig 2 but it we were happy with the tone we got without it.
Vocals
These were done on an Audix I5 and went through Voxnegos free tube plugin. The vocalist was a pain to record with, aside from being the most demanding member of the band and the one with the least patience, he wasn't able to stay in one spot. He leaned in whenever he did vocals and had zero volume control, I appriciate it's screaming, but as a vocalist myself I know I can record a decent track at a much lower and consistant volume. I had to go through and set a heap of volume envelopes on his vocal track and he then refused to redo any parts that clipped.
All in all, considering it was very rushed and mostly live I think it went well. If you could, let me know what you think of the quality of the recording and mix. Send along any suggestions, I'm recording a friends band this saturday so I'm hoping to improve the recording alot more. I felt that aside from the snare being a bit weak (it has alot of attack, but not much tone or body) and the overheads being badly placed, I wanted to get more high-mid definition from the guitars, I loved the Audix and so did the guitarists but I pretty much just pointed it in the first place that came to mind as being 'correct' as far as theory goes and not having chance to tweak it, so it's got a nice amount of beef but there's not that much coming from the higher end of the guitar.
So pass on any suggestions you've got, apart from ones about how I should get off my arse and do more fills
Thanks!