Does anyone know of any software drum machines that are pretty decent?

I'm recording my band this week and I want to have a variety of different drum sounds. There's one song in particular that I want to a have that close mic'd, dead, Fleetwood Mac sound. We're in a relatively dead space but when I add the overheads it adds too much room sound.

Can anyone tell me how I go about this. Both with tuning the drums and with mic placement.

hi all,

the fact: I recorded a drum session in MIDI, but if I choose to send the MIDI signal to a Vst drum, it does not work because it is not actually recognized as "Drum Map", so all notes are not in the right octave (as you know, a VST drum use one or two octaves to play the drum keys) and the right one is "blank".

Hey... Me and my brother write and record our own stuff. I write and record everything, he does the mixing and mastering with my assistance. We write heavy rock songs... We've been doing this for years and our progress on the mixing front has been VERY slow, quite simply because we're both lazy. But I now feel we're at a new level, which sounds somewhat professional.

I've read through the original post many times but I still can't get it right. Can someone 'dumb-down' the setup of this technique for Drum OHs? I just got a set of Studio Projects C4's and I'd like to use them in this method.

Please no flames about the mic choice. Just the facts about setting up and using the RecorderMan Technique.

Thanks,

Chris

Hello, all. Does anyone know the Micing and EQ technique, employed by, he one, Andy Wallace, for kick and snare? I have tried everything under the sun and can not get close.

I would also like to kow the secret to Lord Alge's mix (drums) on the new Switchfoot release, "Nothing is Sound". This stuff is brimming with presence and tone. Gotta love the fat, punchy snare hits!

Ok here are the mics I have where would you put them on the drum set
Beyer 500
Beyer 260
Beyer 160
3 421's
1 gefell m930
1 AKG solid tube
1 beyer mc 740
2 beyer 201
re-20
Audix D6
3 AT 4033's
1 Shure pg81

RVK7 Drum kit microphone set. Around £200 quid,. Does anyone know what kind of quality these would be? anyone know of any other similar priced solutions? cheers, isaac.

What are some good low-cost (< $150) kick drum and small diaphram condensers? The small-diaphram would be used for drum overheads and for recording acoustic guitar as a stereo pair.

There's been a lot of talk about drum recording lately, and it's been interesting reading about how people go after the modern sound with each drum miced individually and (ideally) popping out of the mix. But how were drums typically miced on the recordings of the 60's - James Brown, Atlantic/Stax, Motown, Beatles, old-school Nashville, 50s Jazz?