The idea of music on cd is incredible.
people can catch audio, capture it,
and place it inside cds.
So here is a run down of the recording session for munia. This all took place inside Chris' midtown 2nd floor appt. Before hand, he made sure all the neighbors knew what we were doing. His appt is a long one
and part of an older victorian i belive. alltogether its a huge house.
In the main living room, there is a round window spot where we put the drums. kick:akg d112, snare sm57, overheads oktava mk219's. The drums them selves are an old ludwig set.(if my memory is working right). i had Mike set up the drums there and got my levels. i noticed the kick drum didnt sound great though, so he opted to remove the drum head, which realy made a difference. ive used a beta52 on that same drum with the head on and it sounded fine, so im pretty sure it was the d112. it just sounds better in the drum. great. now we have a punchy kick sound.
the snare couldve used some tuning, but im happy witht he sound we got. those 57s can be pushed hard and still sound good. gotta find the right spot for it though. straight across the snare sometimes dosent sound all that good. i had mine pointed more down at the drum, but not extremely.
the over heads were too high now that i think about it. i had one on each side, trying to keep them the same distance from the snare, but if i had to do it again right now, id put them in front of the kit in an xy pattern. those toms wouldve come out better. i'll have to do that next time. but they didnt sound bad as they were, just a little buried.
ran the stereo drum mix through a light compression to tighten it up a little and put them to tape.
oh yeah. im using a cassette multitracker. 8tracks total, 4 at once. its a little limiting, but its fun. the sound quality isnt bad at all. and im diggin it.
so we put the guitar cab in the bathroom......
