recording drums

[bantos]

Hate to bug you again Ed, but I will anyway!Just kiddin'. Besides using one of those bad boys for a trigger, have you tried using them for anything else? Or are they just too cheezy?

thanks,
Brett

 

[bvaleria]

Ahhh but the resonance plays an important part as well.Not just the notes.
I'm sure you mean that as well.

I find it hard to decide during tracking to make desicions on how exactly will my snare sound before I have all the tracks laid in front of me.

Well, I've found that by gating ONLY the snare and kick, a lot of crud gets cleaned-up and any potentially resonances still come thru naturally from the remainder of the ungated kit.

But as I posted earlier, I've had more trouble trying to work with clients' previously recorded drum tracks and having to gate-out the crud than any loss I would have had if I'd gated during tracking. Mind you, a lot of that problem has to do more with poor mic'ing technique used on the drums to begin with (ie, phase issues, excessive bleed), necessitating gating as a "fix". If they had come to me in the first place, well you know....!!!

Bruce