DITN posted: That's what I'd do myself, yeah, but I do recording and some of the kits that drummers want to record with are... interesting. I don't have a studio or anything, just a mobile recording rig, so the only solution is really to use the drummer's own kit. I haven't done it myself or seen it done either, but I only needed a little bit of dampening, because the resonance head was making a weird noise in one spot, so I put a small bit of tape there and it was gone. I need to switch my BD heads soon anyway, but I didn't have money when we did that recording (it's €50 per bassdrum head here, so €100 in total, ouch). And yeah, I keep a small towel inside, which dampens the beater head a little. And yeah, we spent an hour tuning just the bass drum before we recorded, the tape was my last resort and luckily it did the trick. And after all that hassle, I realized that the sound was crap anyway, so I replaced it with a sample  as you can see on my gear list, I only have a T-bone bass drum mic, and it was the first time I used it. Next time I'll either borrow or buy a better mic!
Just something that came to mind while typing that... I remember one of the first (or even the first?) real recordings I did, which was my friends' band... the drumkit was an old beaten up Tama Swingstar kit with all new heads. The only solution to make them sound ok was to tape the "tone" out of everything, and stuff the bass drum full of pillows. It was still horrible though no amount of tuning made it sound good, even with new heads. That wasn't the only fucked up thing in the session, listening to that demo still makes me laugh. Hopefully I've improved since doing that!Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/02/2008 09:35AM by ze_kink. | |
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I Ordered the KP3, the kaossilator, a rack and monitor stands for my truth's (finally!). I'm getting the Oktava in a week or so, depends on when I get emailed back from the distributor. The reason why I'm getting the Oktava is that apparently the Joly mod (which I'll get made later when I can afford it) apparently makes it unbelievably good.
Getting new gear is fun! Not having any money after spending your savings on gear is not haha. I'm getting a new bass soon too, since the BTB406 is going to be sold tomorrow. Something in the same price range. If you haven't noticed, it's pretty clear that I have a chronic GAS which pops up every now and then | |
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My work desk as it looks this morning...
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B13 posted:and in details? | |
B13 posted: Antwaaan posted: * A Big Mac (...but not the 'orrible meaty kind!) * Some big Apple monitors * Oodles and oodles and oodles of storage (v. necessary for HD work) * A portable DAT machine (hired in for the day) * A AKG desk mic that feeds into the vocal booth (unseen) * A small mixer used for monitoring purposes only as all mixes are done in software. * A lovely cup of tea (in my horsey mug) * A lava lamp (no studio can do without one) * Some cuddly toy prehistoric beasties perched on top of three of the speakers in the 5.1 surround set up * A patchbay that hasn't got anything wired into it cuz Muggins Here hardwired everything. (...but it looks nice in the rack.) * A Dolby E encoder/decoder pair (for 5.1 mixes going on to and coming off tape as Dolby E streams) * A Digi 003 rack to take in audio from... * A Tascam DA-88 (eight track digital audio recoder/player) * A Rosendahl 'clock box' to sync all the audio goodies together. * A Tascam DS-M7.1 a "digital surround monitor solution" (according to Tascam!!) * A Sony Trinitron 'confidence monitor' * A SuperVHS machine (because some Stone Age clients still like VHSs...) * A BlackMagic breakout box (a.k.a. CrapTragic...) * A Focusrite channel strip * The world's dodgiest printer/scanner combo (that occasionally manages to actually print without me swearing at it...) * A super-duper HDCAM tape machine * Junk * LOTS of junk... | |
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see some really nice setups in here!
heres mine 
synth: Roland v synth v2 nord modular g2 nord modular g1 radikal technologis spectralis yamaha rm1x akai mpc1000 yamaha motif rack yamaha aw1600 korg kp3 line 6dm4 monome 40h roland ax1b Recording: motu 828mk2 rolls 203 event ps8 monitors yamaha mg16/4 liquid cooled pentium 4 2.4ghz Quard core, 4gb ram, 1tb, 2 saphire video cards canon xl1s Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2008 12:48PM by n3wt15. | |
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Wow, look at all those goodies!
I just added a Boss BF-3 Flanger pedal, and I have an EHX Bass Micro Synth on its way to me this week  | |
