Help / Rate / Critique my drum track.

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I recently recorded my friends band, and attached at the bottom of the thread is the drum track. The drummer is kind of sloppy with timing, and he hits the mic's a few times. You will notice this, haha. Anyway, the mic's I used were:

Kick Drum: AKG D112 (Mic'd the soundhole).
Snare: SM57 (Top only).
Toms: Audix F10 (Bottom of the toms).
Overheads: R0DE NT5's.
Hi Hat: SM57 (Bottom of the hi-hat).

I recorded with a Presonus Firepod, and ran it to Cubase LE. If you can help me how and like rate the quality, placement, and overall sound of the drums / room, i'd really appreciate it. I want to know how these would sound mastered (good, or just mediocre like they are now). I've never had anything that i've recorded mastered so I really have no idea. The effects I used on each thing were:

Kick Drum: EQ
Snare: EQ + Reverb
Toms: EQ
Overheads: Reverb
Hi-Hats: Reverb

http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0Q21VIYYKSOXX23IEBFJEYFLBJ

Anyway, thanks for any help, I extremely appreciate it. =)

Take care,
Adam.

Edit; I forgot to add that I didn't use any compressors or anything on the drums because I really suck at using compressors. If anyone can help me out with how to use a compressor / gate to make the kick / snare the same volume everytime, i'd REALLY appreciate it. =) Once again, Thanks.
 
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Not bad. I thought that it hadn't been EQ'd until I read the rest of your post. It sounds like workable raw sounds, but it definitely needs some EQ work IMO. What are you monitoring on?
A little dull-sounding overall, but I imagine that is just the cloudy Firepod preamps. Or maybe the overheads need EQ'd?
DOn't be afraid to edit out those mic hits too. If you do it right, nobody will ever know.
Not a big fan of the empty warehouse reverb, but it could be worse. I wonder if your reverb send doesn't need the low end EQ'd out of it?
Hope it turns into a good song for you.
 
Reggie said:
Not bad. I thought that it hadn't been EQ'd until I read the rest of your post. It sounds like workable raw sounds, but it definitely needs some EQ work IMO. What are you monitoring on?
A little dull-sounding overall, but I imagine that is just the cloudy Firepod preamps. Or maybe the overheads need EQ'd?
DOn't be afraid to edit out those mic hits too. If you do it right, nobody will ever know.
Not a big fan of the empty warehouse reverb, but it could be worse. I wonder if your reverb send doesn't need the low end EQ'd out of it?
Hope it turns into a good song for you.
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Thanks for the input man. I am monitoring on a pair of Yamaha HS50M's. I don't really hear how it's dull, but then again i've never really heard a professional quality drum track by itself, ya know? Oh well. I personally like the way the reverb sounds on the snare. And I will edit the Mic hits out. But the reason i'm posting this is because my friends band decided not to use it, which made me want to just keep screwing with it. Use it to dissect and learn a little more, ha. =) Thanks again.

Take care,
Adam.
 
I screwed around with it a little bit. If I could figure out how to get my firewalls out of the way, I would post it up on one of those file uploading services for you. :mad:
Want me to email it?
 
They aren't bad at all. EQ'ing drums by themselves is pretty much a waste of time though. It's how they sound in the mix that counts.

You're probably going to need a little bit more snap out of the snare and kick. Exciters work well for that application. Also be sure to throw a noisegate on every close mic. Then you can really control the attack and decay of each drum.
 
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