[LAU] A short story: from zero to recording the drums in a budget

Will Godfrey willgodfrey at musically.me.uk
Sun Jul 20 18:18:41 UTC 2014


On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:10:36 +0200
Carlo Ascani <carlo.ratm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> I own an acoustic drum, and I wanted to record it.
> My set looks like this [1], and I wanted 8 mics to record it.
> So, starting from *just* the drums, I bought everything I needed:
> 
> 1. The Mixer
> I got a second hand Soundtracs Topaz Micro (I used its Inserts as Direct Outs)
> for 220 euros
> 
> 2. The PC
> I got an IBM Thinkcentre 8215 for 50 euros
> 
> 3. The converters
> I got an Echo Layla 20 for 50 euros, it has 8 analog ins and it is
> really well supported by alsa.
> 
> 4. The Monitors
> I got a pair of second hand KRK Rockit 5 for 150 euros
> 
> 5. Cables and mic stands
> Got them for around 250 euros
> 
> 6. The mics
> I got an Audix D6 and a Sennheiser e609 for kick,
> a Revox m3500 and a Beyer m610 for the snare,
> two Sennheiser e609 for the floor toms
> and a pair of Sennheiser e614 as overheads.
> The total cost of those mics (second hand) is 600 euros.
> 
> So, the total price of the whole thing was around 1320 euros!
> Here are some audio clip of the result, dry recording [2] and processed
> with some eq, compressor and reverb [3]
> 
> So guys, what do you think?
> If I would improve the quality of my recordings, where should I spend
> more money?
> 
> PS: I suck at playing
> 
> [1] http://carlorat.me/drumset.jpg
> [2] http://carlorat.me/noproc_session.ogg
> [3] http://carlorat.me/proc_session.ogg
> 

Percussion is not one of my strong points (in fact it's my weakest!) but these
sound fine to me. Comparing wet&dry, wet seems just about right. It's easy to
overdo effects on percussion - especially compression.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.


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