Thread: Drum sound in my home studio - appreciate any feedback

Quote: Originally Posted by hexagramer hey yoda. take a closer look at drumagog. not only can you use your wav files to trigger your own drum hits, but you can load a good few different hits to trigger instead of the one hit (that makes it sound electronic). i used this feature alot. maybe you have the demo version of drumagog, i havent used it in ages now but honestly its not hard to load your own files. i cant tell when ill be installing...

Quote: I’m not sure from their site if I can demo the whole 4Gb sample library (waiting for them to reply to my email) but can anybody vouch for the out of the box sample library? I’m doing mostly pop/rock type stuff. check out andy reilly's kits, some lovely samples in there and they come as .gog filess aswell. http://www.andyreillyproductions.com/ i bought them a while back and they're lovely. alternativly you...

I use aptrigga. It works great. You can randomize or velocity layer up to 6 samples and mix with the original signal. Stays fully "audio" with no need for any midi messing. Highly recommend it and it's only €40 http://www.apulsoft.ch/aptrigga/

The kit is too damped for my taste. I think the compressor attacks are too fast, assuming there's a compressor! Try miking the bottom of the snare only? Usually that will reinforce the snare from the overhead, which is the best approach IMO. Also try positioning the overheads WRT snare rather than cymbals. I like the toms sound! The challenge would be to position the mics to get your "eq".

Listened to that in HD25's. I assume there'd be no problem in making the O/H's a bit brighter. Undermic on the snare would give a nicer snap too. Nice bit of body on it already. I like to cut a fair bit of mid from toms... Depending on the song id put more clarity on the mic in the kick to give it attack and all. Sounds good anyway! Prob better than I cud do

i think you have come along way , its sounds really good compared to the beginnings ( and I know what its like to go through it ;-) my suggestion - after 2 years of home drum recording and getting it pretty acceptable - use ez drummer or superiour drums - then over dub real cymbals if you want to make it that bit more rawer sounding . im using ez at the moment - i use a stock groove then edit it . the drums all go to multi tracks and are...

Quick question.. Doin sound for kinda heavy rock band (i think) next weekend.. When micing a kick drum front and back(since I'd imagine this band needs a fast attack buzz), would it be wise to use a 57 in the drum just lying on the dampener if I have no shure beta 91 or senn e901 at hand? Then d112 or beta 52 on outside? Also at gig last night, sounded like kick drum was mixed that the fast attack mic in the drum had reverb on it and the...

Sorry but wasnt the beauty of the glyn johns method that is just used 3 mics? Incidentally, I found a great concept album he worked on called White Mansions, anyone hear it?

hey yoda. take a closer look at drumagog. not only can you use your wav files to trigger your own drum hits, but you can load a good few different hits to trigger instead of the one hit (that makes it sound electronic). i used this feature alot. maybe you have the demo version of drumagog, i havent used it in ages now but honestly its not hard to load your own files. i cant tell when ill be installing drumagog again but when i was using it a...