heres a clip of my raw drums

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im using a beta52 on the kick. inside the kick about 3-4 inches from the head, pointing straight at the spot the beaters hit. and im playing with plastic beaters.

ok so theres soimething else i wanted to ask :

in what order should your plugins go into the effect bus?

ive been going compression>eq>reverb

but fairview just said compress the eq, so just wondering whats the right order of things, if there is one
 
I see what they mean about the kick sounding kinda distant compared to the snare, but definately usable.
The snare, I dont actually hear the snares at all on this drum, almost sounds like just a really high tuned tom. Anybody else notice this?
 
That kick aint distant. It's pretty full. It's tuned a little high and I think maybe that whacked out bell-snare is drawing all the attention. Drop a moongel on that snare. :cool:
 
lol awesome

too bad the wildest animals we got walkin around here are stray dogs :(

i wanted to ask do you think the sound of the kick would improve by moving the mic slightly closer to the batter head?

also the snare... i hate my snare.. :( really dont think it sounds great and i duno what to do. i keep cranking it higher and higher and tho it sounds higher to ear it doesnt really sound higher recorded..

ill try get some photos of my mic setup later.. got a beta52 on the kick, audix I-5 on the snare and 2 Marshal MXL 604's as overheads
 
That kick sounds pretty good to me. Maybe you could give us an example of what you would like the kick to sound like.











BTW, RAMI, Greg, Elton. Real classy guys. :mad:
 
I didn't see anyone ridiculing you. Are you feeling self-conscious about something? :D
 
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How about containing you ridicule of me to just one thread? :(
I'm a musician, I'm sensitive. It bothers me.:(
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Holy shit. At first I thought you were just un-informed. Now I realize you're just a baby in need of a spanking.
 
RAMI said:
Holy shit. At first I thought you were just un-informed. Now I realize you're just a baby in need of a spanking.
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And now I realize that you are just a fucking asshole. Whatever toughguy. I'll stay out of your way from now on.



Sorry for jacking you thread skiz. I'm done.
 
Yonce N Mild said:
And now I realize that you are just a fucking asshole. Whatever toughguy. I'll stay out of your way from now on.



Sorry for jacking you thread skiz. I'm done.
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Hehe....Dude, (I'm assuming "dude", but now I'm not so sure)...you need to lighten up.

Just because you were totally wrong about something and embarrassingly kept arguing about it, even after admitting you were wrong, is no reason to take it out on the people who tried to set you straight.:)
 
ok so rami and greg you guys said my overheads sounded a lil funky so i took pics of my setup and my room to show you!

the way i set up my overheads was this (read bout it on some techniques page thing)

you "draw" a line thru your kick and snare, and that should be taken as the "middle" of the kit and the overheads should be set up equidistant from that line to get proper left/right panning so the kick and snare are both in the middle when the overheads are panned hard left and hard right.

dont know if this is a proper technique so let me know what you think
 

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and heres 2 of the room im recording in.
 

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You might try making enough room to move the drums out of the corner and into the room more. It looks like there's not a lot of space in that room, but having them in the corner is less than Ideal.

I noticed that you have a mattress in that room. You could try putting that against a wall next to the drums or spread across the corner behind the drums. It should be pretty decent absorption all the way down into the low mids and should help to tighten up the drum sound.

There are lots of different overhead techniques and you should try them. My 2 favorites are x/y and the recorderman technique. https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=39030&highlight=recorderman+technique
 
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Try this..........

Hi Skiz,
Your set-up with the overheads seems to be the way that most people do it. The funky sound from the cymbals could be because of the condition of the cymbals. I noticed that one has a real big chunk out of it.
Here's what I have been doing and I really like the results. Use only one boom stand for your overheads and get a double mic mount. Set up your sdc overheads as a coincidental stereo pair (that means positioning them at an almost 45 degree angle to each other and almost touching(but not and set up so that they are almost crossing each other. Position these mics directly over your kit up about 20" over your highest cymbal with the center of the two mics almost over the rear part of the center of your snare rim. The end result is a very nice audio picture of your entire kit with both the advantages of overheads and a room mic. Unless you really pound your cymbals, you should with the proper EQ get a very good over all sound. Then you snare mic and kick mic will be on two seperate tracks and you can use them to add more meat.
I think that this will give you a sound that you like.
 
And get new cymbals man, I mean - OUCH.

I really can't see how cymbals get in that state - are you the only owner? Because somebody needs to sort their technique out :eek:
 
Your mics seem to be over the snare, with the cymbals 'behind' them from where you sit.

I would try moving them further away from the snare, still equidistant and pointing towards the snare but with the cymbals in between. At the moment they are closest to and pointing at the snare, so you'll get tonnes of snare with a bit of cymbal sneaking in through the side. If you bring them round to the front of the kit, you might find they pick up more cymbals.

Good snare sound, btw, I actually like it.
 
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