I am new at the biz of sound person, (about three years) Maybe some of you more seasoned pros could help a gal out. My drummer is solid and a good player and everything has been great til' he bought electronic drums. I can't seem to get the sound right. He adjusts I adjust but I just can't seem to get it right where I want it. When I get the kick bumbing the damn snare tears my head off.

Hey, I was wondering...if I have only 3 mics for my recording for the drums...where should I put them, kick, overhead and one snare?

And to make the sound more alive should I use reverb? or what should I do?

I have problems to get my guitars fat also...sounds like I play in a tube..any suggestions?

I use Emagic Logic platinum for my recordings and mixing.

I'm gonna record a real loud band. I usually use a V-drums system for drums but this time I want to record the drums 'real' I can use a very good room (15mx10m and 4m high). I want to make good use of this room for recording the drums, i have a RODE classic mic for this.

Here's the scenario:

8 tracks of drum audio
1 Avalon 737sp
1 finaliser
1 MOTU audio system (1x2408/1x1224)
Logic Mac

Having come from an electronic background I am relatively new to all this. I want these drums to sound warm, congealed and punchy. Basically we want them to sound like the late Barry White's "Playing your Game Baby".

Well I'm a little short on cash (read: short about $3000) so I only have an sb live (left and right channels on line in), a small 4 channel mixer, and a mic preamp-amp, a radio shack 3 mic passive mixer and 7 mics to use with this setup. I'm doing some cheap home recordings so I can remember this stuff when I can get a digi001 or C-port and an 8 bus mixer... you know the spiel.

How do you get a room mic in phase with the drum kit if it is a good 8 feet from the drums?

Recording 3 piece live in barn.

4 mics on drums (kick, snare, 2 overhead) all subbed to two tracks ADAT.

IF I would like to try dynamics processing of some sort -- which is more common: compressing or gating? 4 or 2 channel as in 1 per mic or just kick and snare? Or perhaps process after subbed to two? process to tape or at mix?

I own an Allen & Heath Mixwizard (16 channel). I use this exclusively for drums. I would like to upgrade one of the preamps for the kick drum. I would first like to know what will an upgrade do for the sound? And how much do I need to spend for the upgrade to be worthwhile? Please give makes and models with prices. Thanks.

Hi, I am trying to explore some of the different drums sounds in the 2K. There are a lot of great sounding drums. jazz trio and jazz quartet sound great except they have this odd volume swell going on. kit:accustic doesn't do that. Why would they create a preset with a volume swell...on drums no less. can it be flattened out?

Thanks
Sean

Hi l'm a guitarist who is recording stuff on his computer through pro tools free and l need some drums to go with it.

l have some really cool drum loops which came with guitar tracks in a program called drag and drop drummer. These loops are quantitised and l simply loop them over and they are really good quality.