Outrospection Drum tracking

I'm recording a song for Thrown to Belial at my modest home studio. We used all natural drums other than the kick which we triggered with axis ekit triggers. The kick drum sound is the speed metal sample on the Alesis DM5 module.

The snare is my 6.5x13 inch Tama Metalworks with a remo powerstroke 3 batter head. I tuned it really tight. The head was about to break from the tension and the rim was almost level with the head. I knew that snare has what it takes to cut through well without any sample replacement or triggering. I used an sm57 close up on the snare to get the impact and the pitch of the ring. Not much of the snare wires get into the track like that. I depended on the bleed in the overheads and tome mics to give me the wires and space. It worked pretty well.The toms are Tama Starclassic with Evans EC1 batter heads. They were tuned really low.

I used two Audio Technica AT2020 condenser mics for the overheads. I used an sm57 dynamic mic for the snare. I used MXL 993 condensers for each of the toms.

All of the microphone signals were recorded with a TASCAM US1641 audio interface. I put a live feed of the dm5 and the guitar tracks to his headphones for monitoring.

The camera is a Canon t2i with a sigma 30mm f1.4 lens. I did the editing with Adobe premiere elements using a custom rendering preset

Category:

Music

Tags:

• drums
• drummer
• drumming
• double
• bass
• axis
• pedals
• ekit
• trigger
• alesis
• dm5
• mpdule
• recording
• microphones

[dr4jah777]

@andy15m374l idk if it went through, but what I meant was its ridiculously hard to get really mean deep fat drum sounds, you did great at mixing everything well man. props to you, where are you located? listen to some of my vids and let me know what you think, I have a new cover, idk why it isn't in hd, but I think they sound good, BUT triggering the kick is a good idea. everything else sounds good!

[andy15m374l]

@dr4jah777 I'm in SC 20 miles out from Columbia. I joined this band on guitar after this was recorded. We're writing an all new set. I checked out your videos. Really clean footwork dude!

[dr4jah777]

so I love Brett to death, but I love the parts for the drums, but I'm not a big fan of the way the drums sound, nothing against the producer, but I'm noticing the tom mics are actually cymbal mics, that could be it, guitars sound great. again it's just the production of the drums I'm not a huge fan of, but it sounds great! can't wait to hear the final stuff :)

[andy15m374l]

@dr4jah777 I'm the guy who did the recording. I think it sounds bad. I knew getting a really great drum sound was beyond my skill (and equipment especially). I tried to Trigger everything and use really good samples, but everything malfunctioned. I'm pretty bummed. The good news is no one paid anything for this haha.

[chrisrocks2010]

i usually hate triggered kicks but these sound sick

[BrutalEpicMetal]

I can tell this isn't your best recording, but it still sounds good, even with everything malfuntioning you still managed to make it sound a lot better than a lot of people can. Haha.

[mixthetricks]

what name of the song dude? sounds sick!

[Kevinkoch2443]

use the plastique sample #9 with eq! Sounds much better

[doomedtoextinction]

@andy15m374l no way dude! this sounds bad ass!

[PissedOffFists]

Great playing!

[toxicity28]

this is fucking amazing, SC WHATS UP!!!!!

[AarondaDrummerBoy]

Sick Drumming mate :D but i gotta say the Snare and toms need to be louder also what EQ and Compressor did you do to the Kick ? i also have a DM5 and use the speed metal kick setting but you have the best speed metal kick sample i have herd :)

[joshuachan56]

What cymbals are you using?

[Bostonbird733]

that was fukking sick dude \m/