Prages
08-23-2011, 02:39 PM
I was recording some drums this morning and I made a happy mistake.
I thought I had all my drums mic'd and running into my interface.
I generally have 7 drum mics...kick, snare, tom 1, tom 2, tom 3, overhead left, and overhead right. I run each of those into an 8 channel snake that connects to my interface across the room.
This morning I bring up Pro Tools, set up my click track, add 7 new tracks and label them for the drums, assign the correct inputs to the tracks, then I recorded a drum track.
When I listened to the playback, the kick channel wasn't just kick, but the entire drum set, with a pretty cool room sound on it. Turns out, the last thing I recorded was vocals for another song, and I had unplugged channel 1 of the snake from the audio interface, and plugged in my AKG C4000B large diaphram condensor for vocal tracks.
It didn't sound great, but it had a neat sound to it, so I decided to play around a bit with it. I inserted a sansamp plugin with some crunch on it. :o The drums sounded freakin' awesome in a low-fi kind of way, which should work really well with the song I'm working on.
Unfortunately, I played like shit, so I'm probably going to scratch that take all together, but I do think I'll be employing that technique...of using a room mic with some grit on it, in addition to close micing the kit.
So, there you have it.
Anybody else have any happy mistakes you've made while recording that you'd like to share?
I thought I had all my drums mic'd and running into my interface.
I generally have 7 drum mics...kick, snare, tom 1, tom 2, tom 3, overhead left, and overhead right. I run each of those into an 8 channel snake that connects to my interface across the room.
This morning I bring up Pro Tools, set up my click track, add 7 new tracks and label them for the drums, assign the correct inputs to the tracks, then I recorded a drum track.
When I listened to the playback, the kick channel wasn't just kick, but the entire drum set, with a pretty cool room sound on it. Turns out, the last thing I recorded was vocals for another song, and I had unplugged channel 1 of the snake from the audio interface, and plugged in my AKG C4000B large diaphram condensor for vocal tracks.
It didn't sound great, but it had a neat sound to it, so I decided to play around a bit with it. I inserted a sansamp plugin with some crunch on it. :o The drums sounded freakin' awesome in a low-fi kind of way, which should work really well with the song I'm working on.
Unfortunately, I played like shit, so I'm probably going to scratch that take all together, but I do think I'll be employing that technique...of using a room mic with some grit on it, in addition to close micing the kit.
So, there you have it.
Anybody else have any happy mistakes you've made while recording that you'd like to share?