Studio session duo

I used this lesson to lay down my first drum track. I choose a range of mic's for different purposes. I double mic' the snare top and bottom with sm57's, this allows you to pick up a range of sound, the top mic picking up the orignal hit of the snare, and the bottom mic picking up the ringing of the snare, which i feel eventually a fatter sound. The kick drum was mic'd with a D112 as this is a great mic for picking up low frequencies, we placed this deep into the drum to pick up the original click of the bass drum, then eventually i will double this up with samples to give a large full sound. I used two groove tubes as overheads as i feel these give a far brighter sound than the c100 condensor mic's. I then used an akg 414 as a room mic to get an overall sound for the room to pick up a natural reverb which will thicken the sound and give the mix a 3-d effect.



We routed these through as followed :
kick - input1
snare top- input 2
snare bottom - input 3
high hat - input 4
overhead 1- input 5
overhead 2-input 6
room mic - input 7

After everything was mic'd up and ready to record Curtis started laying down 8 bar samples which will be arranged and chopped up to create the drum tracks.

I want the drums electronic so i believe i will just have these samples faintly in the background to give a bigger sound and capture the live kit effect and then use the drum n bass remix sample instrument.

Studio session uno

Monday 4th January 2010
Studio session 1

Due to a lack of drummer, whom was essential to start my tracking we used our time to create specific drum samples, these included kick, snare and cymbals, these will come in handy when it comes to drum replacement.

To record these samples we used close mic'ing techniques, this included a d112 on the bass drum and an sm57 on the kick.

The reason for my mic selection was the d112 has a low frequency, this will allow it to pick up required frequencies of the bass drum. On top of this we used patched the TLA compressor to give a brighter sound. Personally i would have liked a fatter sound from the kick, but this can be done with some studio magic

The Shure SM-57 was chose as it has a well rounded fequency response allowing it to pick up all the required frequencies, once again we patched it through to the tla, Personally i am not too pleased with the samples as i believe the snare should have been mic'ed top and bottom and i dont believe enough signal was recorded, however this was my mistake which i will learn from for when tracking drum's for my final recordings.

Although the samples were recorded well i would like to look around for professional samples and make a comparison and decide which i would like to use.