Mic'ed my drums with a cam corder

[Freethinker]

Hey all, I recorded myself playing my kit with my digital cam corder and then burned the footage to DVD, and well it turn out awesome I can hear all my drums and cymbals and it all sounds just like it does when I'm playing the kit!

Except for the bass drum, the Mic on the cam corder was only getting the high end from the bass drum.

But anyway i was curious as to, if I was just to mic the bass drum and then use another mic similar to the one in my cam corder if if I would not get this good of a recording again?

I had the camera on a tripod about 5 feet behind me and 4.5 feet to my right with the camera pointed towads my snare drum, the camera was about 5.5 feet off the floor.

The front of the camera reads that it is a "stereo" recording system, so I guess there is more than one mic in the front of the camera?

But this thing really turned out well, I would upload my video but i don't have a high speed connection to upload 17 min of my playing.

I made the DVD to send out to bands instead of driving everywhere to audition or just have a jam session.

 

[corban]

Yeah, with two decent mics you can get a decent drum sound, if you position them properly. Having one mic on the kick and the other as an overhead is the best bet. You could probably get even better results with a proper recording mic as opposed to the camcorder mic. To be fair, it sounds like a decent condensor is in there, and you must have had it positioned well if you were getting a good balance from the kit.

 

[treymonfauntre]

most cameras made in the past 5+ years have hard hitting compressors built into them. i got one as a graduation gift a few years back and i wish there was a way i could disable the compressor so i could tape live showsand be happy with the results. i even tried plugging in an external mic into its mic jack and it still compressed it.