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songsj
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I'm recording with a Tascam 788. I'm just getting started with
recording live drums. I only have 3 mics right now and this is what I did. Placed a SM 57 about 3 inches from the snare head [top ]right at the edge of the snare head pointing down and towards the center of the snare drum. placed a SM57 between the ride toms about 4 inches above them pointing down towards the heads and slightly back towards the drummers throne.
placed an AKG in the kick drum. I ran the mics into the 788 and used the onboard compressor with the following settings.
Threshold -16db
Attack .5 MLS
Density set at 50
Output at 12 db - not sure if this was + or -
My result was this, The overall sound was not too bad however I was surprised how loud the snare drum was through the mic on the toms and how loud the toms were through the mic on the snare. The kick drum was okay. Looking at the recorder playback
levels show all of the channels recording almost equally no matter which drum is hit. In fact at times the snare drum almost sounded louder on the tom mic than on the snare mic. I'm pretty sure I did not assign all inputs to all tracks. [ I've multi tracked alot, just not with drums.
What do you guys think?
Did I compress to much to the point of leveling all the signals off
to the point where I was recording as much bleeding and leakage
as anything else? Did I have some phase cancellation? This is not a drum room so I expect a certian amount of leakage but this sounded more like I hung two mics above the drummers head
and put a mic on the kick. I know I need more mics to do this right
but all I was doing was experimenting to see what kind of sound
I could get from the snare and the toms before I add more. If can't isolate things better than this there's not much point.
recording live drums. I only have 3 mics right now and this is what I did. Placed a SM 57 about 3 inches from the snare head [top ]right at the edge of the snare head pointing down and towards the center of the snare drum. placed a SM57 between the ride toms about 4 inches above them pointing down towards the heads and slightly back towards the drummers throne.
placed an AKG in the kick drum. I ran the mics into the 788 and used the onboard compressor with the following settings.
Threshold -16db
Attack .5 MLS
Density set at 50
Output at 12 db - not sure if this was + or -
My result was this, The overall sound was not too bad however I was surprised how loud the snare drum was through the mic on the toms and how loud the toms were through the mic on the snare. The kick drum was okay. Looking at the recorder playback
levels show all of the channels recording almost equally no matter which drum is hit. In fact at times the snare drum almost sounded louder on the tom mic than on the snare mic. I'm pretty sure I did not assign all inputs to all tracks. [ I've multi tracked alot, just not with drums.
What do you guys think?
Did I compress to much to the point of leveling all the signals off
to the point where I was recording as much bleeding and leakage
as anything else? Did I have some phase cancellation? This is not a drum room so I expect a certian amount of leakage but this sounded more like I hung two mics above the drummers head
and put a mic on the kick. I know I need more mics to do this right
but all I was doing was experimenting to see what kind of sound
I could get from the snare and the toms before I add more. If can't isolate things better than this there's not much point.