mrhotapples
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Alright. I'm fucked up on Tylenol PM 'cause I'm sleeeepy and I can't seem to achieve it naturally, the sleep that is, so i hopes this sense makes.
I'm recording my band a full-length album this spring and I want it to sound as best as possible so we don't feel like fools paying for distribution. So when we get new heads, I'm sampling that muh. I plan to use a different dynamic mic w/a CAD M177 on each drum. I know how to tune and can get much closer w/ my trusty drum dial, and we're going to do each drum in isolation (mounted/set up w/baffles set up all around it and a dead ceiling). So it should sound awesome!
When we actually track the drums though, we'll use 2 oh, kick, snare, room, floortoom, racktom and hihat. I guess my first question is whether or not to mic both ends of the toms or if I should do a close and distant mic, and how many velocty layers I should make.
My biggest gripe doing this is that I look at it as cheating even though replacement with a pre-processed (or not) sample will make the drums sound a lot more consistent. I plan to EQ and compress the samples by themselves and mix them in with the live take 50/50 using drumagog. Is this a good idea, or should I just go 100? I hate how snare rolls sound even with ghost velocity layers so I dunno, here's wehre I stop making sense to me.
And any tips on cutting the samples up? I've done this before and I got phase issues like whoah.
PLZ GVIES ADVICS thankz
hotapples
I'm recording my band a full-length album this spring and I want it to sound as best as possible so we don't feel like fools paying for distribution. So when we get new heads, I'm sampling that muh. I plan to use a different dynamic mic w/a CAD M177 on each drum. I know how to tune and can get much closer w/ my trusty drum dial, and we're going to do each drum in isolation (mounted/set up w/baffles set up all around it and a dead ceiling). So it should sound awesome!
When we actually track the drums though, we'll use 2 oh, kick, snare, room, floortoom, racktom and hihat. I guess my first question is whether or not to mic both ends of the toms or if I should do a close and distant mic, and how many velocty layers I should make.
My biggest gripe doing this is that I look at it as cheating even though replacement with a pre-processed (or not) sample will make the drums sound a lot more consistent. I plan to EQ and compress the samples by themselves and mix them in with the live take 50/50 using drumagog. Is this a good idea, or should I just go 100? I hate how snare rolls sound even with ghost velocity layers so I dunno, here's wehre I stop making sense to me.
And any tips on cutting the samples up? I've done this before and I got phase issues like whoah.
PLZ GVIES ADVICS thankz
hotapples
