audio arts wk 9

Once again failing to get in specifically to record drums and post production them, I have for you instead some drums I recorded and worked earlier.... Standard micing used: Kick - beta 52 Snare - SM57 closed miced top and bottom Toms - beta56s closed miced overheads - KM87s a, b formation post production process went something like.... pan overheads left and right (60%), pan snare to the left (36%), tom1 (20%) to the left, floor tom to the right (40%). apply smiley EQ to kick trying to boost thump and click sounds. Apply lots of compression. EQ snare to reduce ring and magnify typical snare sound, use a noise gate (trying to remove ring still). EQ toms extensively in search of typical tom sound send all drum tracks down a bus and into an auxiliary channel where the whole lot get even more compression applied. The result, a drum track that has a bit of drive to it (finally). Photos of some of the plug in settings coming as soon as I'm at uni next as is a mix down