Marching

[Greg_L]

Is a pain in the ass to record by yourself.

 

[Armistice]

With you as the sole marcher?

I can imagine! Remember that each take needs to be a full take, no comping of the best footsteps...

I hope you have a wide variety of footwear at your disposal, or are you running it all through EZStomp or a marching sim?

Or you could like copy and offset a few milliseconds...

If you mastered the castanets, I have great confidence you'll get marching down.

Sounds like thirsty work... enjoy!

 

[Greg_L]

Yup, lots of stomping. I'm up to about 32 tracks of foot stomping goodness. I'm a one-man army of checkered slip-on Vans wearing soldiers!

 

[moresound]

Recorded something similar to what your working on Greg and what I found to work great was a small platform 2X4 made of plywood framed by 2X6's.
Was able to get a mic under and then one up on top these provided for a great resonating of the steps/marching and sounded huge!
After a few tracks of the feet, added other strikes with a hiking stick, a metal dowel, tympani mallet, or just get creative on your own behalf. For these other items added the needed dimension to the sound much like a kick drum you want to get a click attack and the low/low mid end rumble. Really spruced it up.

 

[Greg_L]

Lol. Well I aint putting that much effort into it.

 

[RAMI]

You've only got about 10 days left before you have to start Apriling.

 

[RAMI]

You've only got about 10 days left before you have to start Apriling.

Wow. That was really bad...........

 

[Greg_L]

Ba-dump-tsss

 

[aaronmcoleman]

Yup, lots of stomping. I'm up to about 32 tracks of foot stomping goodness. I'm a one-man army of checkered slip-on Vans wearing soldiers!

I've got some checkered slip on vans, and don't live too far away! The neighbors above me stomp a lot if you'd like me to record that for you