Recording Query

SaKi-The-Killer

Hi all,

I'm a bit ignorant to this and would rather get some first rate advice than trawl the net.

Has anyone any experience in production/mixing drum tracks made using Reason/Pro Tools? If I was to book a studio to lay down some tracks, would it be possible to use pre-made drum tracks on the above programs rather than a live drummer? I understand it might make the track a little robotic. I can only assume it wouldn't be that much of an issue.

Anyone ever done it before? What were the results like?

DamagedTrax

it can be done, the results you achieve will depend on your proficiency with drum programming and the quality of your samples.

mordeith

SaKi-The-Killer wrote: »

I understand it might make the track a little robotic. I can only assume it wouldn't be that much of an issue.

If the drums are programmed using strick quantization then it will sound a bit rigid. However this can be overcome with some added shuffle, manually adjusting the placement of the midi notes and altering the dynamic of the hits in terms of volume and panning. Here'a recent video from Computer Music to give a basic idea on this can be achieved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU4fzzdbaQY

SaKi-The-Killer

mordeith wrote: »

If the drums are programmed using strick quantization then it will sound a bit rigid. However this can be overcome with some added shuffle, manually adjusting the placement of the midi notes and altering the dynamic of the hits in terms of volume and panning. Here'a recent video from Computer Music to give a basic idea on this can be achieved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU4fzzdbaQY

Cheers for all the advice.
I'll mess around with that. Much appreciated!

unclebill98

Load in the demo songs that reasons ships with. Look at how they did the drums, gives you an idea of the swing/shift etc that is possible.