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Can Anyone Tell Me What Is A Really Good Drum Kit And Sizes For Recording Rock Music> Not Metal More Like Just Solid Classic Rock>
I Have The Ringo Ludwig Set Currently And It Just Sounds A Little Small In The Track

 

[ez_willis]

I Have The Ringo Ludwig Set Currently And It Just Sounds A Little Small In The Track

How does it sound in the room you are recording in, and how does it sound in rooms other than the room you're recording in? What condition are the heads in, and what type of heads are they? Is the kit tuned properly? What kind of mic's are you using, and is the placement correct? Sorry to answer your question with more questions but they are all pretty important when recording drums, and all could be lending to the problem.

 

[firby]

Just get a maple kit with a 20" bass drum.

 

[dr.colossus]

Maybe you need to rest your ears a bit.... I can finish a session and hate the sound of my kit, but if I don't play for a week or so the sound is great.. the old ears take a beating behind a kit....

I honestly think you should be able to get the sound your after with the kit you've got..... I am a little out of touch with "new" kits so I'd hesitate to suggest anything and besides your definition of solid rock could be completely different to mine.... I could be thinking Zep and you could be thinking Shania.

Just to throw in the proverbial spanner, I would look at a 22" bass drum for rock

 

[PhilGood]

You can take any kit and make it do the job you need. It's all in the tuning and head selection as well as how you treat the track. Rock tends to use less muffling (see that dead horse over there, let's beat him again!), lower tuning and more ambience or effects. You need to experiment a little before shelling out dough for a new kit. (Unless you just really want one, which for me is as good a reason as any.) If you get a new kit and tune it the same way your old one is tuned, it'll sound about the same. To a mic, a drum is a drum is a drum pretty much.

Different shell materials, how bearing edges are cut etc. also have an effect on the sound. There's plenty of info if you do a search here.