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[sejuba]

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..

These drums sound ridiculously good ! Chris, are you recording your own music with an M Audio profire or do you use it when you can't record on your studio ? I'm hearing this through
very average pc speakers and everything translates nicely. The toms on your friends kit sounds amazing!

[bigbone]

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..

Can you talk about what plugin you use ( EQ -Comp ) and what frequency you did cut or boost.
it sound very good........

[moose]

That's a great sound, Chris. Fabulous image too. And I could listen to you groove all day long.

[chris perra]

At home I have a different setup, Behringer ADA 800 as converters.. I have the pres off and use other pres on the front end,.. Through an RME digiset. lightpipe.. The Maudio is great as well. but I use it for live as I prefer the Rme as a soundcard..

I tried to find the Cubase project but had deleted it, so I don't know for sure what I did..
Typically I'll use the Cambridge Eq for Highpass filtering, and surgical eqing of trouble spots on each track..
Buss the overheads to a stereo track. add compression like a la2a for light stuff or 1176 for heavier things of something that needs more jump in it.
then add Shaping eq like a helios 69 or neve 1073 .. I don't think I did too much to these tracks as they were pretty good.. I may have cut some highs with the Cambridge.. and sweeped the low mids 200 to 350 and pulled out a bit..

Then I'll buss all the drums to another stereo group so I have a clean stereo group of all the drums... Then take a effect send off of that and send it to another group or effect channel and add heavy compression and blend the two together.. the compressed gets added to the clean drums to thicken the sound.. Sometimes I'll add light reverb and M/S to the clean drum group depending on the vibe of the room it was recorded in.. But that was not the case for this recording..

[Julián Fernández]

Chris do know how to capture a great sound...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Uc7VNG7yM

Did u use stock preamps on the MAudio?

[chris perra]

Yup. Nothing fancy on that shoot.. stock Maudio pre's..

[Jim Richman]

The great sound is the great playing. People forget that the most important part of recording is what you put into it.

[chris perra]

I'd say It's the Neumans and the drums themselves..Before I had both, it was more difficult to get a great sound.. All the crap they make plug in wise is used to fix garbage sounding drums or crappy mics.. Get great drums and mics in a good sounding room and you'll get a great drum sound... I still use plug ins and what not, but now when I use them they actually do what I hope or expect them to..