Totally.lionaudio wrote:The thing is, I'm not AGAINST reverb, or any other effect for that matter. If I had to record drums in a room that sounded like crap, or was too small, I would throw on a good lexicon reverb and be very happy. I just find it more appealing to use a good sounding room. I'm sure I have heard recordings that I thought was real room, when it was a really nice unit instead. But I'm not talking about listening to music. I'm talking about recording music. This thread is about using reverb effects vs. using room mics. And you hit it on the head, you use both. I think we all sometimes see recording as "I can either do this, or I can do this, but not both". If the music we are recording calls for more reverb than our room provides, it's time to dust off the effects unit, or move to a larger room, or both.
I record in a basement. Its a good sized basement, i can have a full band track together in there with the right placement, but i'm dealing with 7.5 ft high ceilings and i've treated it some, mostly in the area the drums go and that has helped but really, i don't get much "room" out of it that i can use in place of a reverb unit. and even the Lexicon LXP-1 i picked up awhile ago from a fellow TOMBER made a great improvement over the plug reverbs i've got in my LE system. The plugins are useful, but tax my processor, so with the Lexicon, a Holier Grail, also purchased from a fellow TOMBER, my SPX90, and some guitar delay pedals, i'm digging the results.
I alway use a room mic, at least one, for drums as well. usually the TOMB ribbon in front of the kit about 10 ft, about chest high and a usually going for the "booooompaaaahhhh" as dokushoka was mentioning above. usually through an 1176 plug in or recently through a symetrix 501. Mix it in, more and less where needed! it ads some fun to the drums, some i gues some "reality" but not really that, just some excitment, some body.
