Uladine
New member
I recorded drum tracks with an x-y overhead configuration (2 akg c3000b's), a 57 on the snare, el cheapo nady mics on the toms and the kick was triggered via an alesis DM5.
In Sonar i used the "extract timing" function to make MIDI tracks that mimic the kick, snare and tom tracks. Then I sent those MIDI signals back to my DM5 to trigger the internal drum samples, all the while adjusting the velocities of every hit to get them how I wanted. Then I recorded the DM5 sounds to seperate tracks.
Of course the drums sound a bit fabricated now, but you can still tell they were played by a real drummer and the cymbals are still real. This would work fine by itself I suppose if I were going for an electronic drum sound, but I am going to take my cheating further and make samples of my own drums with my better mics and replace the DM5 samples with Drumagog.
Ive never gone to this extent before, but I'm going for a slightly electronic sound in the likes of pantera/fear factory, etc. but with a slightly more realistic feel. I'll let you guys know how it turns out.
In Sonar i used the "extract timing" function to make MIDI tracks that mimic the kick, snare and tom tracks. Then I sent those MIDI signals back to my DM5 to trigger the internal drum samples, all the while adjusting the velocities of every hit to get them how I wanted. Then I recorded the DM5 sounds to seperate tracks.
Of course the drums sound a bit fabricated now, but you can still tell they were played by a real drummer and the cymbals are still real. This would work fine by itself I suppose if I were going for an electronic drum sound, but I am going to take my cheating further and make samples of my own drums with my better mics and replace the DM5 samples with Drumagog.
Ive never gone to this extent before, but I'm going for a slightly electronic sound in the likes of pantera/fear factory, etc. but with a slightly more realistic feel. I'll let you guys know how it turns out.
