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Using Zoom MrS4

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  • 14-11-2005 7:23pm
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    CatalystGuy
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    any tips for recording bands guys - drums


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    sei046
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    what u wondering about though?


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    CatalystGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭CatalystGuy


    just how to get the best sound out of it


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    sei046
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    ya have a problem there coz of the only 2 tracks recording at same time thing. Its kinda hard to know how to do drums. Maybe an external mixer with the drums mixed on it goingout stereo into the 2 inputs of your zoom then bounce them to once track(stereo). Should be the best way


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    squibs
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    If you have to do it with 2 mikes, then you'll need 2 overhead mics carefully positioned (try one over the snare and one in front of the kit) and a drummer who can modify his playing to balance the level of the individual drums. It won't be perfect, but you may be able to correct the worst issues with some EQ or multiband compression.


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    krd
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    Drums are the hardest thing to record.

    To get the "professional" sound you need mic's all over the place. you need to get each level individually. (four can sound great,, two over head,, and two in the bass drum. It's how all those great sixties records were done)

    To get the best sound you can, with your zoom. record a guide track of the song to a single track. Then use every mic you can to get the drums on the other zoom tracks.

    If you can use a click track --- or easier a subsition beat (a looped sample of an in time drum loop for the drummer (and bass player) to follow ,,, you discard later) ... when it's in time (perfect time) you can edit bars and sections cutting out the screw ups ..... It can make a lousy drummer who can't keep time, sound like a sexy pulsating rhytm machine.

    What may sound awful when you let them play the whole thing through, if you loop them, they make all the crapness sound on purpose.

    But if you'd like everything live :( sorry baby ,,, until you can afford a nice studio, with several engineers who are incredibly patient and a drummer who can actually get a groove on that doesn't sound like he's on glue.

    I have a zoom... it records best with all eq neutral and none of the cheesy effects off


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    holl156
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    Hello:D


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