Live room to live for some genres

Jakecaram · 24th June 2011

Lately I have been recording drums at a studio where the live room is about 35x60 with a 25ft peak ceiling. The room sounds great for doing rock/indie rock music drum tracking but it is a little to live for my taste when doing metal or any aggressive music. Prior to tracking drums in the new studio I was tracking drums in a large but pretty dead room which the drums benefited from when doing metal but I was always lacking something in the Overheads that I now have in the new room. Anyway, I was talking to another engineer a few weeks back and he mentioned that back in the day they used to build tents or some type of make shift dome around the kit in a room that was to live to tone down on some the of the reflections. Does anyone have any experience with this and if so what is a good type of material to use? Thanks.

avare · 24th June 2011

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Originally Posted by Jakecaram

Lately I have been recording drums at a studio where the live room is about 35x60 with a 25ft peak ceiling. The room sounds great for doing rock/indie rock music drum tracking but it is a little to live for my taste when doing metal or any aggressive music. Prior to tracking drums in the new studio I was tracking drums in a large but pretty dead room which the drums benefited from when doing metal but I was always lacking something in the Overheads that I now have in the new room. Anyway, I was talking to another engineer a few weeks back and he mentioned that back in the day they used to build tents or some type of make shift dome around the kit in a room that was to live to tone down on some the of the reflections. Does anyone have any experience with this and if so what is a good type of material to use? Thanks.

You are basically building clouds to absorb the drum sound BEFORE it fills the room creating ambience. YEs it works.

Andre

24th June 2011	#1
Jakecaram Gear interested Joined: May 2009 Location: Media, PA Posts: 19 Thread Starter	Live room to live for some genres Lately I have been recording drums at a studio where the live room is about 35x60 with a 25ft peak ceiling. The room sounds great for doing rock/indie rock music drum tracking but it is a little to live for my taste when doing metal or any aggressive music. Prior to tracking drums in the new studio I was tracking drums in a large but pretty dead room which the drums benefited from when doing metal but I was always lacking something in the Overheads that I now have in the new room. Anyway, I was talking to another engineer a few weeks back and he mentioned that back in the day they used to build tents or some type of make shift dome around the kit in a room that was to live to tone down on some the of the reflections. Does anyone have any experience with this and if so what is a good type of material to use? Thanks.

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