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Honestly, the standard mics on the zoom tend to give me very usable sounds on their own, so everything else just fattens up the mix a bit. I use a Zoom Q8, which has inputs for 2 external mics. It's not about tech gimmicks-again, unless you are going specifically for that sort of thing.Įveryone who commented before me clearly knows more than I do about this stuff, but I can tell you what I figured out using similar equipment.
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If I can offer any direction it would be that if you have good-sounding drums, played well, in a good-sounding room, you could stick ONE mic over the whole kit and get a great sound. It's not just about going by "the book" and expecting things to magically sound great. You figure things out along the way, what to do and what not to do, etc. Its claim to fame is really about taming highs, tight directionality, feedback resistance and handling of SPLs.Īs Trout alluded to above, recording drums just takes a LOT of experience.
#Using a xenyx x1204usb with reaper as a daw full
All depends on the kind of sound you're going for and the room-very importantly.īut people will often hear that SM57 by itself and think, Why does it sound so dull and lifeless? It's not a rull-range mic designed to pick up a full frequency spectrum. You can get great sounding drum tracks with just a couple of overheads and no close mics. Most of the overall drum tone is usually coming from overheads. It's not meant to provide the primary snare sound but to add body and presence in the mix. SM57 on snare drum (and close-micing in general) is one of the most misunderstood facets of drum recording. I saw a video of just a single Samson C01 condender being used for the whole lot and it sounded very good. I'm also not sure if I should do snare mic, overhead mic (single or pair)and kick mic. I've also linked photos of my ghetto setup and the mixer settings. But, I have to be careful of the mixer output levels because the line-in of the Zoom is so sensitive and clips easily. I put the trim on the mixer high enough were there's no clipping and the led lights hit zero and slightly above for headroom which I believe is the correct setting. If I buy a better mixer like the larger Behringer X1204usb which has built in effects like reverb and compression that I can add to each mic separately before recording, would that be what I need to give better EQ and make the drums sound warm and more mixed in with the sound of the backing track? Are my levels too low? What is your opinion on these and what can I do to improve it? I know snare should be dead centre but it seems to open up the sound a bit more. The first clip, I slightly panned each mic left and right. I've uploaded two short test sound clips recorded into my Q3 of me playing just the snare drum (sitting at the end of my bed) to bits of a backing track and also just the snare drum by itself at the end, to see if I'm getting anywhere close to a decent sound. Is my snare mic positioned and angled correctly? I've messed around with the EQ pots on the mixer which helps a bit but nowhere near what I'm after. I'm struggling to get much presence, the snare drum sounds dull, distant and boxy. Yesterday I put my SM57 on a 12" x 5.5" snare, and hung my Unidyne 3 from a wardrobe as sort of overhead/room mic. What I'm intending to do is record video and audio together with my Zoom Q3 HD, with all mics and backing track audio going straight into the line-in of the Q3. I've only got a Behringer Xenyx 802 mixer, an SM57, a Unidyne 3, and one of those flat black square PZM condenser/boundary mics. So I need to achieve a good sound during recording as there's no way to do post processing.
#Using a xenyx x1204usb with reaper as a daw Pc
I've not got a PC at the moment, so can't use any software. I've only tested a snare drum so far before moving onto the kick. I want to record drum covers of songs at home on my acoustic kit but I don't think I'm getting a good starting point.