Positioning of ECM8000s

[darrin_h2000]

You are right Vurt, but I wouldnt settle for the amount of echo ,traffic noise,and the resonating garage doors I would get on the tracks.

Knowing this is homerecording.com there must be another option to where drums get recorded or else this would be garage recording .com.

wayne

 

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Well, the garage is often connected to the house, I think that makes it a part of the home. For instance, I think you can call basement recording either "basement recording" or "home recording". It qualifies as either. Most of us would probably like to have a good sounding and quiet environment for recording drums n' things. Very often we must settle for one (good sounding) or the other (quiet) and sometimes neither.

Realistically, we must make many compromises when recording at "home". Even in real studios, compromises are sometimes necessary. Unrealistically, if we all had the room, the mics, the gear and the budget of our dreams, I doubt we'd bother discussing a pair of $35 mics in a garage! But here we are doing just that...cool.

 

[M.Brane]

I miss my old garage!

It was a 2 banger, but a good sized one (20'X 27'). Some dense foam cured the resonance of that metal roll-up door and the numerous shelves, bare studs, rafters and other stuff created great diffusion. Cut some pretty good drum tracks in there with my cheesey Tascam 414 and a couple of Rat Shack omnis (the Shure rejects). of course it helped to have a drummer who knows how to hit his drums.

Now I have an old Mac with pretty damn good audio in for stock, a little Behringer 802A and a couple of ECM8000's. The only problem is now I'm in this 19'X 11' X 9' room with lath & plaster walls on a raised wood floor. I just did a drum track last night (same drummer and kit) and it sounds pretty good but I know it would sound a lot better if I was still in that garage.

The tent idea is not bad but remember that's only good for upper freqs. Your still going to have low/low-mid reflection so you need diffusion as well. If you make the room too dead with blankets and stuff you'll just make it muddy.