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Hi,

I'm about to record a drum kit. Since my tracking room is a small one (2.0 m wide 5.0 m long 2.5 m high) there's no other chance than placing the kick drum so close to the wall.

What kind of problems may occur in this situation and what are your recommendations to overcome.

Thanks

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mics:
D112
C451B ST
Mbho MBP 603s
SM57s
U87

Comments

johnwy Mon, 12/20/2004 - 10:58

The smaller the room the more chance you may have with sounds bouncing off the walls and the mics picking up the slap back that can create comb filtering and phasing probelms. You may just want to treat the walls that are fairly close to microphones with some sort of sound absorbtive material, like moving blankets, to help reduce some of the reflected sounds. You don't have to turn it into an anechoic chamber, but you may just want to reduce some of the slap back so that it doesn't screw you when it comes time to mix.

I would also suggest a room mic strategically placed somewhere in the room, with the emphasis of getting the kit as a whole, so you can experiment, like creating your own room sounds (ie. in conjunction with your favourite reverb unit/plugin), and as a safety factor if, for example, a mic craps out in the middle of a song, drummer hits something off mic, so on and so forth.

good luck