first time seriouly trying to record drums, could use some help

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antispatula said:
thanks man, I definitely will



yeah I've been looking at the recorderman technique. Am I supposed to do that for the snare AND the kick drum, or just the snare?
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I've agonized over drums a ton, and running into the recorderman post on youtube really helped:

youtube.com/watch?v=IiFOD1EeKhQ

It gives you a nice, fat sound as a default unless your room is bizarre.

I quickly modified that into something similar to the Glyn Johns Method:
mikedolbear.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=34299

Once you get it a bit more refined and comfortable you can have fun with bringing even more punch and bass out by applying a 5th mic to the front of the kit. That will require position+listen with any other phase identifying/minimizing tricks you might know, however.


And I wouldn't worry too much about people saying you need a drummer. A pal of mine has used this same method just to record a bunch of samples. It doesn't take a drummer to perform single notes to pull out a bunch of good samples for electronic music and such.
 
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