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| Ok, so all the tracks are done, and the band has enough money to mix the record (the rockabilly one I asked about earlier). I've been playing with the tracks, and while I did get the snare like I wanted, the drums just don't sound right. I mean I want them to sound really live. the room where I recorded is small and together they sound a little dead. Can I save it?
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Did you record any room mics? Please please please?
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| Sort of. I did record a pair of mics about 5 feet in front of the drum set about 6 feet apart.
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Good boy, fixer.
Remember that whatever you are working on, your approach is dictated by the music. For the rockabilly sound you described, here's my approach -- actually, I almost always approach the drums this way. Listen to the overheads by themselves, then the rooms by themselves. Bring the panning in a little, take it back out wide, listen for the differences, see which pair best fits the song. Let's assume you choose the room mics -- use these as the basis of your drum sound and use the close mics to fill in or add to what you have.
My philosophy is that the kit is a single instrument played by a single musician -- not a dozen individual instruments. The drums should have some cohesion. Of course, I have mixed a few (very few) songs in which the opposite approach best fit the song, but that would be obvious. This is one of those exciting topics that engineers spend our time discussing amongst ourselves -- drum sounds. And football.
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cool. I always started with the kick drum, then snare, on and on by them selves. I see why nothing sounded like it went together, even though each sound by itself was good. I'll try it.
thanks mikey, and GO GIANTS!
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| GIANTS?!?!?!?!?!?!? You are dead to me, fixer. We'll see on MNF, Oct 23. M
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