how to record drums home studio tight budget 5 mics

how I record drums at home for my friends. I'm not a drummer so I playad what I could. It's just to show you my sound. thank you!

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Music

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• record
• recording drums
• home studio
• logic pro
• motu ultralite mk3
• mac
• apple
• sm57
• shure
• PG52
• Miking drums
• 4 or 5 mics
• Drums
• mics
• low cost
• tight budget

[psychorockz123]

hey dude, do u have a mixer or smthin? wher do u connect the mics? usb interface??

[ricodonna]

@psychorockz123 yes man! I connect 'em to a firewire audio interface motu ultralite mk3

[Undertryyke]

Tight budget? Two 57's for top and bottom?! I don't think so...

[ricodonna]

@Undertryyke hey man! I bought 'em 2d handed about 50$ each... thanx for comment...

[szakislash04]

you have made yourself the 70's 80's Black Sabbath Led Zeppelin,older Pink Floyd drum sounding:),not bat,bat realy old kind of sounding:)

[ricodonna]

@szakislash04 thank you! yeah we worked with my drummer friend to try and have an old 70s drums! happy to see you like it ;)

[naedsukram]

A lot of the Led Zepplin drum sound was spill into the other mics in the room, and the room itself, which was apparently quite live and ambient. His drums were well tuned and he hit them really hard, so John Bonham was firstly able to pull a great sound out of the drums, the engineer just had to capture it.Otherwise,u edited a great video, new skins, tuning, and some room ambience would be good, also, check mics are in phase, then check again! : )

[neoideo]

i think you got a good 70's drum sound. but with todays guitar effects and distortions most of the small sound will get eaten, make sure what type of music will the guitars play, and according to that you could adjust bassdrum, snare, and tom frecuencies/volumes

[jamesbeth]

@Undertryyke dont forget the £1000 laptop and £300 program to run on it, tough times, if your on a budget i must be living on aid relief!

[fattmudge]

GLYN johns



[tomralphs]

@Undertryyke In comparison to most studio-quality mics there are out there, 57's are very inexpensive.

[MarkusGronroos]

old zildjians are pretty good, you should tune the drums a bit and they should sound better. thanks for posting this video and have a nice day! (-:

[kesihua2]

Good for you man. Looks like you did what you could with what you had. I have a suggestion for a better kick sound that doesn't even need to come from EQing it. This might help if you want a cleaner and shorter sound.

1. Tighten the front head

2. Put a skin on the back with a medium sized porthole

3. Replace the pillows with something that will soak up more sound. It needs to have more surface area (bedsheets, blankets, pillow cases with very little stuffing)

4. Aim the mic where the beater hits

[andrewsmithify]

@ricodonna would you be able to pm me, i wwould like to hear how it sounds with your drummer friend playing, i quite like the sound