What's your setup like? Set in a room alone, or all mic'd up for recording w/ a multi

[junplugged]

I'm wondering since this is Home recording, and since it's a lot harder to capture drums on a recording than many other instuments since it's really 7 or more instruments and it's all acoustic and loud, etc.

Do you record you drums a lot at your place?
Can you even have drums where you live?
If you have them there, can you even play them there?
If you have them there, do you record them often?
If you record them, are you recording just your drums, or are you set up for a band to be in the same space as your kit?
Or do you always have to transport them somewhere for rehearsal and recording and set up mics every time?
Or do you just use minimal mic'ing just for analysis of your playing and rarely record?
Do you add drums to other's pre-recorded tracks for collaboration?

Just wondering b/c I am lucky enough to have a kit here and am just starting to learn how to mic it and play it, but for my good tracks, I'll need a player for them or add drums by a player later.

(-poll is a little messed up, but I can't edit it....)

 

[Track Rat]

Do you record you drums a lot at your place?
I record live drums here at least once a week, with 6 to 7 different kits/drummers on average yearly.
Can you even have drums where you live?
I live in a rural setting plus I've gone through great pains to slow down sound leakage.
If you have them there, can you even play them there?
I can't play a lick. I rely on the kindness of strangers.
If you have them there, do you record them often?
Like I said, at least once a week, somebody is beating on drums here.
If you record them, are you recording just your drums, or are you set up for a band to be in the same space as your kit?
I have a room 10' x 12' set up for drums. Right now I have no way to isolate an amp if the player wanted to be in the same room with the drummer but that'll be changing in a few weeks as I plane on making a couple of iso boxes big enough to hold an average 4 12" cab. I can put an amp in the control room and snake a cable back into the studio though. When I have to do something like that I usually throw a couple of moving blankets over the amp.
Or do you just use minimal mic'ing just for analysis of your playing and rarely record?
I prefere tight mics on drums but I use them to sweeten the overhead mics which really have the meat of the drum sound.
Do you add drums to other's pre-recorded tracks for collaboration?
Only in an engineering sense.

 

[DigitalSmigital]

I like recording drums because...

it takes some trial and error in the analog world. All my demos get some kind of percussion treatment, unless it's just an a-guitar song w/vocals. Most all my demos have one musician playing; me. So drums go down first, (not counting a click track) then bass, then the rest.

 

[noisedude]

If there are any willing drummers for collaborations I may just be looking for some help in the near future! My playing is ok but I simply haven't the number of mics to record usable drums here, and am limited by a 4-in 4-out DAW interface too.

 

[dr.colossus]

kit is now always miced.... very minimally. i play in a large room with the whole band, at the moment its just for composition and analysis. however i'm slowly working on placement etc. as the band works on new tunes for our next project. i will always try and record the band together, it stops thing becoming stale, plus we like to improvise a little .

 

[junplugged]

I have a kit and I move mics around and been trying different things. I'm recording elec, and acou. guitar and vocals and not enough mics to leave them set up on anything permanently.

I don't know how good my kit is and don't know if it's tuned well. I'd like to have a drummer play them on a track at first, just to see how that goes. But this room is tiny, not sure if they would be comfortable in here and I'd have to mic it better and it might take a while - not in a band at the moment.

 

[Kim Turley]

Voted!
By the way, question 5 is impossible to answer using just a tick box

 

[noisedude]

Dude! I assumed Kim Turley would be a lass! Oh well ... your music was good ... and that drumkit was just ridiculous

 

[Kim Turley]

haha, cheers man, yep i'm a guy

 

[noisedude]

Almost a shame. If I give you my address you can donate a few of those tin cans you had around your kit, yeah? The ones that say Zildjan on? They're a crap make anyway.

 

[Kim Turley]

A little secret, the Zildjian ones aren't mine, I have all Paiste ones. And my friend certainly wouldn't wanna post those to you

 

[Bdrum]

If there are any willing drummers for collaborations I may just be looking for some help in the near future! My playing is ok but I simply haven't the number of mics to record usable drums here, and am limited by a 4-in 4-out DAW interface too.

PM me on the collab!

My Drum room is 12x14.Very well soundproofed.
Well the neighbors haven't complained when I crank 120 dB at 10:00 at night
I have 10 channels so far of Drums and haven't had too much trouble with bleed.
I'm doing my own stuff right now.I have a song thats two years behind from when it should be released.
My set up is Digital and I like it.I want to play more accomp.when I start recording Bands and instrumentals/vocals.
Soon I will be expanding to another room for recording and then poss. another for mix down.But for now I'll rely on my buddy at NL5 to cover projects for me

 

[noisedude]

Cheers mate, I'm snowed under at the moment it seems, but am working on some stuff that I'll hook you up with if it's going anywhere!!

 

[Bdrum]

Cheers mate, I'm snowed under at the moment it seems, but am working on some stuff that I'll hook you up with if it's going anywhere!!

Yeah no problem.If you want you can send me some ideas so I can work something out.
The last collab. I was on sucked because I didn't have a click track and sorta rushed through it. my bad