Ox Han
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Post by Ox Han on May 18, 2021 14:08:26 GMT -6
It's really gratifying when it comes out great but also the learning along the way. I imagine the sound difference can mostly be attributed to the rooms at such studios, yea? Or having like 6 u67s lol. I walked into a studio near D.C. where I was basically ducking u47's left and right in the rooms. I felt like I should have had a machete or something. Damn jungle. You just set up the drums, put the mics up and boom it just sounds like a record. Recording drums in bad rooms is really the hardest I find, particularly since I try not to trigger samples so it often takes a lot of work. As a drummer in a bedroom trying to record this is true. It's the bane of my recording endeavor and the bane of my life atm. I've put up so many panels that I'll probably have to work an extra 3 years. To the OP - protools expert guy did a sort-of-shoot-out between he midas xl48 and the audient asp880 that was pretty good. When you listen, you can tell he didn't use both to record the same take b/c the drums don't play the same fills and I suspect the mics also moved around a bit. But, it's still valuable. Both sounded good, but the differences are as others described in this thread. Either one will do, but I kind of like the midas on drums in that shootout and it also has hpf/lpf on all channels. LPF is pretty rare on a pre. Link below As an alternative, you could get a cranborne 500adat and load it up with eight 500 series pres (or whatever processing modules) you want, but it will be more $. This is what I did and I love it. YMMV www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2015/2/22/review-shootout-audient-asp880-vs-midas-xl48-mic-preamps.html
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Post by bricejchandler on May 19, 2021 2:01:47 GMT -6
You just set up the drums, put the mics up and boom it just sounds like a record. Recording drums in bad rooms is really the hardest I find, particularly since I try not to trigger samples so it often takes a lot of work. As a drummer in a bedroom trying to record this is true. It's the bane of my recording endeavor and the bane of my life atm. I've put up so many panels that I'll probably have to work an extra 3 years. To the OP - protools expert guy did a sort-of-shoot-out between he midas xl48 and the audient asp880 that was pretty good. When you listen, you can tell he didn't use both to record the same take b/c the drums don't play the same fills and I suspect the mics also moved around a bit. But, it's still valuable. Both sounded good, but the differences are as others described in this thread. Either one will do, but I kind of like the midas on drums in that shootout and it also has hpf/lpf on all channels. LPF is pretty rare on a pre. Link below As an alternative, you could get a cranborne 500adat and load it up with eight 500 series pres (or whatever processing modules) you want, but it will be more $. This is what I did and I love it. YMMV www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2015/2/22/review-shootout-audient-asp880-vs-midas-xl48-mic-preamps.htmlWhen I'm working with bands, I usually tell them that the one place they can't really cut corners is on the drum recording. You can get great bass, guitar tones in average recording environments, you can't get great sounding drums in a bad room, at least not the way I like drums, which is very natural. A lot of the small DIY projects I record, almost half the budget goes towards booking the studio for drums.
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