Monday, November 29, 2010

Two Steps

Matt Kassel started recording drums today.  We got six tracks done!
The kit is a Tama Swingstar.  The mics: CAD KBM412 on the kick, SM58 on the snare, TSM 411s on the toms and on the batter head of the kick, and two ICM417s for overheads.  The hi-hat bleeds so much into the other mics that there was no need to mic it, and the bass drum was so boomy that I put a TSM411 on the batter side to try and get some "thwack" to blend it with.  I removed the grille of the SM58 a couple of songs in, effectively turning it into an SM57.  We also found we needed to muffle the toms a little bit with some tissue paper to get more definition on the hits.

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