Recording extreme metal drums Part 2

Technical info on the drum recording session for the 2009 Vile album. Engineer Colin Davis. www.imperialmastering.com

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[extremerecording]

My opinion is that if you are using sound replacement for drums, you only have cymbal ambience left and your soundstage will suffer greatly in a dead room. If you are using real snare and toms, you might want a room with a medium ambience but with the sampling we do in metal, its better to have some ambience.

[chuckawobbly]

LOL pallets on the wall, that is crazy man, egg cartons could of done too, and all that protein!!

[extremerecording]

But the point is that I dont need absorption like egg cartons or carpet or foam or fiberglass. I need diffusion only to retain reverb.

[extremerecording]

No way, Vintech is a Neve replica. Awesome sound for guitars. The Fireface ones are like a Mackie type of thing. Clean and basic but not as great. But remember that it wont matter that much until you really get your technique perfect but if you have been able to get great guitar tone for a while and need to step up, then Neve, Vintech, etc is needed.

[extremerecording]

I studied acoustics for a while. Carpet is unbalanced, fiberglass good but I dont need absorption in a room 17x25 which has fabric on the ceilings, I need reverb so I choose diffusion to stop comb filtering. Pallets are free and work perfectly.

[richardjamesbunker]

Great videos! I just had a question though: Why did you use the Alesis Trigger I/O instead of the midi out from the DM5? Does this affect the triggering? cheers.

[Metalwurst666]

man i recognizeyour voice, you have made the "how to record professional metal guitar tone" vid right? that was one of the most helpful vids ive seen in my life so far :d

[Downbeat1984]

the pallet idea is genious, just sand em down and stain em and install em in the walls and youre set, genious idea

[BARONSAMEDI242]

@extremerecording Of course you don't. All the drum sounds come from ToonTrax or whatever. Why even have someone drumming? Just use a sequencer.

[pifa4life]

i actually like a dead room, more options in mixing faster metal

[bjmm1993]

@extremerecording egg cartons doesnt work..

[Buhzie15]

@Slyrus76 depends on what you want. if you have a really nice sounding room, use a room mic or two and get that open sound and use it to your advantage. if its not that great, try making it more dead and add some post reverb and whatnot.

[Slyrus76]

Always though a dry room was best for source rec, guess it doesn't apply to drums?? no, I'm lost...dry or not?? lol

[flavy1000]

@Buhzie15 Think that is possible,but...I believe that natural rev will work better than post processing.

Would like to have extreme recording `s opinion, If you want to..Thanks

Flavy