Drums

We started the drums and it definitely was a learning experience. We had difficulty getting a room to record the drums in, so we decided to record in a drum booth and digitally create the atmosphere. (1st mistake) In addition, we could not get our cubase DAW computer to the recording site, so we used a mac pro with Logic to record the drums. We used a m-audio ProFire 2626 as our interface for the 8 drum mic channels.

The profire allowed us to setup a dedicated aux channel for the drummers in ears so he could hear the scratch track and click. Mic placement was crucial, which we learned the hard way. We looked up a few ways to mix drums, but all of them were specifically used for drums in a nice acoustic room. (The purpose was the record the room as well as drums) What we ended up with was a whole lot of bleeding in the mics.

We setup a little studio away from the drums so we could hear the overall recording and mix.

We recorded 3 songs, two up beat songs (I was made, which is getting renamed) (and Wilderness). The third song was a slow jazzy song, "To be Faithful." We were going for a rattle snare, with brushes effect, so we mixed the top of the snare and the bottom. Our result..... ehhhh not that great.

The drummer played very well, our mic placement was pretty bad, as well as the drum cage was a bad idea.


Learning experience:)

Thanks Jacob for playing Drums!!