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by JES » Sun May 16, 2021 7:40 am
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for all the great suggestions on the thread. We turned out to be simply too tired to do this in December. But now that the school year is done, we are planning to do the drum recording this summer. The pandemic is still going, we won't be fully vaccinated until August, and we're both high risk, so even being in a studio with a careful engineer for a long time seems like a bad idea right now.
So, back to recording ourselves!
In looking back at the thread, I realized I got a lot of great answers regarding miss, but I wanted to follow up on pres. I would be happy not thinking too hard about the pres once I'm in the room so I could focus on mics and placement.
Assuming I rent the 3124v, and I have two great river 500NVs, a pair of FMR RNPs, and the two Pres on my RME interface, what would you recommend using, and where?
I'm kind of thinking either driven 3124s or GRs on kick and snare (we will try both), not driven APIs for overheads, and the other two leftover "fancy" pres for the two toms if I mic them. For weirdo room mic stuff, I suspect that matters less, but what do I know? I am not an experienced mic-er of drums.
I could also try and rent 8 channels of API and just do all of the drums through that, or more Neve-ish stuff. The rental place has lots of options. So suggestions are appreciated.
To recap on the mic plan:
We'll start out with fewer mics on drums: 1-2 overheads, kick, snare, room. We will add in toms if that's exciting to do. We will try out a few options for overheads, etc. We will check phase religiously. We will budget 1-2 days just to get a drum sound we like before actually recording music.
I'm going to post a separate thread on recording my instrument.