That’s a tricky one... Do you already have an interface? DAW? Mics? Preamps?
You can’t really go wrong with an SM57 on top, but I’d recommend mic’ing top and bottom, and possibly a room mic if your room sounds good. Mix to taste.
I’m a fan of a large diaphragm condenser on top, with a dynamic on the bottom to catch the snares, but make sure your LDC can handle the SPL, and for God’s sake don’t hit it with a stick.
DrumIntoTheNight wrote:
That’s a tricky one... Do you already have an interface? DAW? Mics? Preamps?
You can’t really go wrong with an SM57 on top, but I’d recommend mic’ing top and bottom, and possibly a room mic if your room sounds good. Mix to taste.
I’m a fan of a large diaphragm condenser on top, with a dynamic on the bottom to catch the snares, but make sure your LDC can handle the SPL, and for God’s sake don’t hit it with a stick.
I was probably going to go for recording a whole drum line at once. Would I be better off mic’ing each drum in each section or recording all the snares as a whole, and so on?
EDIT: I don’t have any equipment yet. I won’t have the funds for a couple of months.
I don’t know how many I can take yet. I’ve literally got nothing yet. I probably won’t until fall.
It’d probably be in the band’s practice room. This video was recorded in the same room, and I think it was done with only omnidirectional mics. I have no idea really, but nobody was individually mic’d up.
Fuck me, that’s a huge ask! Tbh, recording something like that well would be a task for a 128 channel ProTools HD|3 Rig...
Really, within reason, your best bet would be to use, I dunno, 8 channels? And mic up overhead each section of the group (horns, snares, bass etc) using an LDC (really it should be a matched stereo pair; hello phase issues), so that way you have some way of controlling the relative volume of each element.
That said - You’d be looking at spending probably over $2000 for an 8 channel interface, preamps (if they’re not built into the interface), LDC mics, decent high span boom stands, miles of cable - and this is assuming you’ve already spent several thousand on a powerful computer with DAW and plugins...
Realistically, you’d be looking at doing another stereo recording, perhaps with another ribbon mic to pick up room ambience. A two channel interface isn’t phenominally expensive, and you could get a pair of T-Bone SC400s or Chinese equivalent for super cheap, but any more channels than that and the price goes up substantially.
Sadly you get what you pay for!
I dunno man, big ask. Once you know more about your budget or can get me more details, don’t hesitate to drop me a message in here or PM me.
DrumIntoTheNight wrote:
Fuck me, that’s a huge ask! Tbh, recording something like that well would be a task for a 128 channel ProTools HD|3 Rig...
Really, within reason, your best bet would be to use, I dunno, 8 channels? And mic up overhead each section of the group (horns, snares, bass etc) using an LDC (really it should be a matched stereo pair; hello phase issues), so that way you have some way of controlling the relative volume of each element.
That said - You’d be looking at spending probably over $2000 for an 8 channel interface, preamps (if they’re not built into the interface), LDC mics, decent high span boom stands, miles of cable - and this is assuming you’ve already spent several thousand on a powerful computer with DAW and plugins...
Realistically, you’d be looking at doing another stereo recording, perhaps with another ribbon mic to pick up room ambience. A two channel interface isn’t phenominally expensive, and you could get a pair of T-Bone SC400s or Chinese equivalent for super cheap, but any more channels than that and the price goes up substantially.
Sadly you get what you pay for!
I dunno man, big ask. Once you know more about your budget or can get me more details, don’t hesitate to drop me a message in here or PM me.
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