I need one more thing than I could seriously record

[kikling]

Hey everybody. I have ALMOST everything I need right now to do some serious recording. I have a behringer 802a, a sm57, rode nt1, frontman fender amp, fender strat, 550 mhz computer with good sound card, cool edit pro, event 20/20s and a Pearl Drumset. Right Now I could record really good bass to my comp by going right into my mixer and my guitar i get a pretty good sound with my 57. But my problem is my drums. my studio was a garage that has been converted for me and my sis, who is a dancer. let me explain broadly how the room is:
It's perfectly square,(no dimensions right now, sorry) It has a wooden floor and a one wall mirror. I know what ur thinking, terrible echoing. So you could imagine what it does to my drums. Well, I cant put carpet in the room yet because my sister will kill me (maybe when she goes to college) so i need a way to deaden the area around my drums, because they sound good, but there so echoed! Any cheap easy suggestions?

Thank U
kikling

 

[Tekker]

Set up some thick blankets around you drums using mic stands

 

[vox]

Hang the heaviest drapes (or blankets) that you can on the walls and over the mirror, move a couple of armchairs into the room, drop your mattress on the floor in the corner, chuck cusions and pillows around, you get the idea, try to break up the square shape of the room with sound absorbing stuff. Hanging the drapes will probably only deaden the high frequencies, if the room starts to sound too dead and dull try exposing the walls in places (not directly opposite each other though). If the room is boomy get someone to play the drums and walk around and find the spots where it sounds boomiest and put an armchair or cusions or whatever you have in those spots.

This is the ultra cheap, may help a little, household items only, fix. It is not the proper way to do it by any stretch of the imagination. If you find that you do have some kind of budget and can modify the room, let us know how much money you have to spend and how much 'damage' you can do to the room and we'll give you some advice on how to do it properly.

P.S. you do have a piece of carpet for your drums right? Carpet is an essential part of a drum kit, a 6' x 6' or 8' x8' piece is perfect, it helps to tame reflections from the floor and also keeps the kit fron sliding all over a polished wood or smooth concrete/tiled stage.
Not to mention it also protects the kick drum from getting scratched too.

 

[kristian]

dont put carpet on the floor! if your garage is what im thinking about, that wood should have a nice sound to it. its the mirror thats a bugger. have you actually done any recording in there? if the mirror is the only problem, thats not too bad, just cover it with a sleeping bag or something thick like that.

 

[sjoko2]

good advise kristian.
Just get some microphone stands with booms, extend the stands, with the booms horizontal accross them, like a T, and drape blankets over the "T's".

 

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Kika Ling-a-ling-a shoobie doobie doo:

How would you like to record a tune I wrote?

It's called,

"The River Turned Muddy When She Turned Me Down."

I'll send you a copy of the words/music/recording. Then, you can go wild.

Green Hornet