The End of the Road (Heatmiser Cover)

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Alright...now you guys are just making me feel silly :p :mad:
 
propman said:
As for the drums, I've been trying to stay away from drums a bit because I don't have the resources to record them correctly and I'm tired of electronic drums.
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See, I thought there were drums on here? Subtle, like beginning right around 1:59 for example, it sounds something like a snare played with brushes just underneath the uke...I hear it every time it comes to that same part but it doesn't last very long I think. Maybe that's just the percussive sound of a stringed instrument?

You do have acoustic drums, right? Have you recorded with them before at all? I bet you could make it work with a small selection of mics if that's the limitation.

Also, what mic do you use for recording your vocals?
 
heatmiser said:
See, I thought there were drums on here? Subtle, like beginning right around 1:59 for example, it sounds something like a snare played with brushes just underneath the uke...I hear it every time it comes to that same part but it doesn't last very long I think. Maybe that's just the percussive sound of a stringed instrument?

You do have acoustic drums, right? Have you recorded with them before at all? I bet you could make it work with a small selection of mics if that's the limitation.

Also, what mic do you use for recording your vocals?
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The thing you hear at 1:59 is a metal shelf on my wall getting stuck with a mallet on a whim while I was recording the glockenspiel track.

I do have an acoustic kit (Pearl: 'Forum' series) but I don't have the number of inputs or magnitude of mics necessary to record them properly. I have used a snare here and there or sampled variants of my kit but most of the time I went with synth drums or a pre-sampled kit (EZ-Drummer.)

As for my vocal mic (that I absolutely LOVE) it's an Audiotechnica AT-2020.
 
propman said:
The thing you hear at 1:59 is a metal shelf on my wall getting stuck with a mallet on a whim while I was recording the glockenspiel track.

I do have an acoustic kit (Pearl: 'Forum' series) but I don't have the number of inputs or magnitude of mics necessary to record them properly. I have used a snare here and there or sampled variants of my kit but most of the time I went with synth drums or a pre-sampled kit (EZ-Drummer.)

As for my vocal mic (that I absolutely LOVE) it's an Audiotechnica AT-2020.
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I love AT stuff. I have an ancient 4033 that I use on everything. I had a drawer full of 'better', way more expensive mics, but I sold them all last year. I'm down to the 4033, an original NT2 and an SM7B.
 
chuckduffy said:
I love AT stuff. I have an ancient 4033 that I use on everything. I had a drawer full of 'better', way more expensive mics, but I sold them all last year. I'm down to the 4033, an original NT2 and an SM7B.
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One of these days, I'd like to have a more technically based approach to the way I do things. As it stands, my recording method is more point-and-shoot than educated. I've never known what types of mics work best with which type of sound and so forth. I have and still only know what sounds good to my ears. I'd love to be able to say 'Give me the [random number] for this take.' and have handed to me the proper tool but I don't foresee that ever happening. I have no clue what an NT2 is and can only assume that the SM7B is a Sure.
 
propman said:
One of these days, I'd like to have a more technically based approach to the way I do things. As it stands, my recording method is more point-and-shoot than educated. I've never known what types of mics work best with which type of sound and so forth. I have and still only know what sounds good to my ears. I'd love to be able to say 'Give me the [random number] for this take.' and have handed to me the proper tool but I don't foresee that ever happening. I have no clue what an NT2 is and can only assume that the SM7B is a Sure.
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Well yeah - I don't have any particular approach either, I'm all over the map musically and recording quality wise. The NT2 is a rode condenser mic. It's a lot brighter than the 4033. I turned the mics I didn't use into a new guitar and a bass repair - so it worked out..
 
chuckduffy said:
Well yeah - I don't have any particular approach either, I'm all over the map musically and recording quality wise. The NT2 is a rode condenser mic. It's a lot brighter than the 4033. I turned the mics I didn't use into a new guitar and a bass repair - so it worked out..
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Maybe it's better that way. If you experiment or go by intuition, it seems less likely that the results would end up sounding stale as in comparison to the by-the-book method... But I'm sure (in my own way) I've written a guide book in my head that knows what everything I've got does best.
 
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