Home Drum Studio

[V4Vinnie]

Hi. I have at home a decent empty room. Dimensions are 12'W x 22'Lx 9' 6"H. Is in concrete and it completly empty. I was in the thought if converting it into a recording studio for convinience purposes, but, I'm a rockie in terms of what equipment I should choose. For starters I would use my laptop that it will be enough according to the configurations. At the moment I think I will use Logic for tracking. In terms of mics I hear that a good Shure SM-58 should be ok, according to Jr. Robinson in an interview. But what else? Can I use the preamps, EQ's, effects from logic? My intentions are not to do at first somenthing pro but make something low budget but deccent so that could be a good start. Pleaee any advice that could point me in the wright direcction? Thanks gang.

[Julián Fernández]

Good advice here:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1057

[Steve Holmes]

^^ Yeah I went through the same thing this time last year and that topic pretty much covers what I ended up with.

[V4Vinnie]

Thank you gang...

[chris perra]

These Expert Village videos are hilarious..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Ahjfpf1iM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puilq15SOeI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5aUVEy0p-0

He does have some good points though.

[Julián Fernández]

Nice Chris!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYBBBCG ... tg&index=1

Huge sound (no coincidence in such location!)... were u involved in the recording/producing of that clip?

[chris perra]

Thanks...Yup, I recorded and mixed that. Stripped down, just overheads and kick for each kit..
Cymbals were a bit hot but overall not bad..

[Matthijs Ament]

Great recording Chris!!

[Julián Fernández]

Would u elaborate on mics, pres, interface?

[chris perra]

On the Zebra wood Kit. Neuman 2 km 184's and an Audix d6
On the Copper wrap kit 2 Tlm 49's and a Akg D112 on the kick
Both using Recorderman technique

Through an M Audio profire 26/26 ... It has 8 channels of pres plus lightpipe
Recorded into Cubase 5 I think.

Mixed in Cubase 6 with Universal audio plug ins..