..::OFFICIAL Drum/Mic Sound Sample Thread::..

[SMX_Dizzy]

I'm really glad there's a forum dedicated to recording now so I can do this. For all of you home recorders and studio recorders, here's how this will go down:

Post what kind of mics you have/use(d), and then post a link (or in a zip folder if you so choose) to any samples of the drums, and/or anything you have where you've recorded your drums.

I'm in high debate over what mics to get currently, so I think this would be a great database to create for other drummers that are getting into recording and want to know what different mics sound like. This would be really helpful and could potentially aid a lot of people in purchasing mics.

Thanks a lot for your cooperation. I hope this thread works out!

[surftex363]

I had some of my cymbals but sadly i deleted them...

[SMX_Dizzy]

I'm just talking about drums in general. If you've recorded, and know what mics you used, and have samples to post, then you can post in this thread...it's that simple!

[notsocoolguy]

I don't think I have my samples anymore... I spend an afternoon/evening sampling my gretsch kit, got some good sounds from it... But I had no need for them so I rid my harddrive of them... :(

[Funky Animal]

Docile's Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/docilemetal)

This is actually a song I recorded here at home.
It was still pretty crappy quality, but I has improved a bit...

The playing on the next song of my is not that good of a performance, but the whole recording was just for a personal libary, it's one of my band's songs (Just a 2 minute sample)..next to that there are some more samples of the guitar cab recorded (ENGL Blackmore, that thing seriously kicks ***!)

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=543366

[styleone]

96' Forum
Budget tom, overheads and bass drum mics.

Shure SM57 on a 6.5 deep Pearl Brass free floating snare.

I know there are some flaws in the playing, who cares :D ?

http://woodtrip.free.fr/Audio/03-Dance.mp3

[SippyCup]

Sweet! On these recordings, we used Shure SM57s on the snare, the 10", 12", and 14" toms. We used two small diaphragm condensers as overheads (which I believe were not very well placed, or suited for the job.. not sure on the brand) and two AKG D112s.. one INSIDE the bass drum, with the front head removed (wish I hadn't consented to that), and one for the 16" floor tom.

The kit is a Pearl BRX. The 16" floor and the snare are Tama Starclassic Performers. I borrowed the floor, and I think it turned out beautifully. Overall, I'm pretty satisfied with the sound. Not perfect, but hey.. it didn't cost much, either. :)

Now the shameless band plug:

If I had drum-only, I'd share those. Sorry!
http://www.myspace.com/thepitstn

Styleone, your snare sounds AWESOME.

By the way, if you want to focus on the drums, listen to Wormwood or Sky High.

[styleone]

Styleone, your snare sounds AWESOME.


Thanks, it's naturally a great drum but I'm honestly not too fond of the sound we got, I wish we had used another 57 on the bottom because I feel we can't hear the snares enough, it almost sounds like a timbale at times !

By the way, if anyone want to hear the song with the band, check out DANCE on the myspace in the sig for the band SIZ'L.

[SMX_Dizzy]

Up!

[Unavailable]

I'll try and remember to post sound clips of my Nady mics on my Pearl Forums soon.

[p-mack]

i don't have any recordings uploaded right now, but the samson c-01 condenser mics are great microphones for a budget.
:)

[MattF]

I just got some C02's and I'll be trying them out tomorrow and hopefully posting samples.

[ekk20]

nice thread.

[Oryon_Drummer]

I just posted up a short clip of my kit. A friend asked me to play whatever I felt like and give it to him with no editing or mixing whatsoever so it's kind of rough. The Myspace player adds some weird distortion on the high end that wasn't in the recording.

www.myspace.com/urjmusic

Mics are:
Beta 52 - kick
SM57 - snare and 16" tom
e604 - 10, 12, and 14' toms
MXL 603 matched pair - Overheads

[DemonKnight5150]

For the recording I'm going to show you I used:

Sennheiser E902 - bass drum
Sennheiser E604 and Audio/Technica snare mic - snare drum
Samson clip-on mics - lower 3 toms
Audio/Technica tom mic - tymp tom
Nady mics (3) - overheads

Here's the song (it's a rough track):

newest rough track (http://media.putfile.com/newest-rough-track)

Come the first part of February I'm going to order:

4 Sennheiser E604's for my toms
I'll move the E604 on my snare to the bottom of snare and get
1 Shure SM57 for snare batter
2 Studio Projects B1 overheads

[pearldrummerkid]

Heres a few clips i made, just sound samples.
I think they sound pretty decent. Any comments?

http://media.putfile.com/drums-sound-sample
http://media.putfile.com/cymbals-sound-sample

Also the two sound files in my sig were recorded before i got new heads, not quite as good a sound as now.

[Serge]

Sample of my drums:

www.myspace.com/sergesavoie

The drums solo was recorded through my Tascam 788.

[Butnutz]

I just posted up a short clip of my kit. A friend asked me to play whatever I felt like and give it to him with no editing or mixing whatsoever so it's kind of rough. The Myspace player adds some weird distortion on the high end that wasn't in the recording.

www.myspace.com/urjmusic

Mics are:
Beta 52 - kick
SM57 - snare and 16" tom
e604 - 10, 12, and 14' toms
MXL 603 matched pair - Overheads

thats because myspace re-encodes MP3's to a VBR(variable bit rate) file that is limited bandwidth to save space. the result is something known as "aliasing" where the high frequencies are converted into a format that cannot reproduce them, and they distort the converter(yes, you can distort a software re-encoding of an mp3). the way around this is to design a conversion process with an anti-aliasing filter(a low pass filter) at the nyquist frequency, which is the highest frequency that a particular bit depth and sampling rate can reproduce without aliasing.
see "how recording works" for more info.

[SMX_Dizzy]

Heres a few clips i made, just sound samples.
I think they sound pretty decent. Any comments?

http://media.putfile.com/drums-sound-sample
http://media.putfile.com/cymbals-sound-sample

Also the two sound files in my sig were recorded before i got new heads, not quite as good a sound as now.
What kind of mics did you use?

[pearldrummerkid]

Some cheapo mic from an electronics store, through my iriver H320 and then edited in Audacity. I need to get some serious gear.
Thinking bout getting maybe a soundcraft mixer, a firepod and some decent audix or sennheiser mics.
The mic is better than i expected. it picks up alot of low end when close-micing without clipping and seems to be able to handle what i need it for.

[Unavailable]

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=553300

Pearl Forum drums w/ added Rockstar kick. (Pics provided. That's essentially how it looks now... a little different. Wuhan mini china is replaced with a splash.)

Nady mic kit plus second bass drum mic and an AKG vocal mic for the floor tom. I use the on stage stands mic clips which do pick up some vibrations which is audible in the sound clip. Anyhow, I find the Nady mics to be very good, affordable mics for those beginning to record. The kick mic could use some work though... Doesn't have much low end.

If you have time, check out the Nevermore cover... a friend of mine brought over his bass and snare triggers one day so we used those. I only had one mic at the time to mic the toms and cymbals however.

[Unavailable]

Bump. Also one thing I didn't mention was that there was no EQ on any of the drums, just reverb.

[DemonKnight5150]

Yay, River Dragon Has Come cover again!!!! Brav-freaking-o!!!

Rep AGAIN! Ooops...can't give you rep....I have to spread the love first...haa.

[mzd]

here's a thread with audio links & details.
http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/showthread.php?p=1851587850

summary: mapex saturns with nady tom/snare mics & akg bass drum mic.

[DaMadBlaqDrumma]

this section looks pretty cool. i don't do much recording so i have nothing to offer.

[DrmBug]

Some recordings - http://www.students.oamk.fi/~t4jeju00/
(I did a topic about this in the General Drum Set Discussions, but I thought this would be the right place, after all.)

I recorded them with a Fostex Mr-8HD digital multitracker and with 4 mics (2xOktava Mk012 condenser, Shure Sm57 and a cheap T-Bone BD300 for bass drum).

Tell me what you think!

[NRF]

Some recordings - http://www.students.oamk.fi/~t4jeju00/
(I did a topic about this in the General Drum Set Discussions, but I thought this would be the right place, after all.)

I recorded them with a Fostex Mr-8HD digital multitracker and with 4 mics (2xOktava Mk012 condenser, Shure Sm57 and a cheap T-Bone BD300 for bass drum).

Tell me what you think!

Nice drumming, man!

Thanks for posting those, I'm interested in getting a digital recorder myself, and it's nice to hear some samples.

[SMX_Dizzy]

I just got an Audix i5 and a Shure Beta 52A. AMAZING mics, definitely happy with my choices. The i5 kicks the crap out of the SM57 imo, and the Beta 52 has the perfect bass sound. My MXL 604's will arrive tomorrow, so I might post some samples up.

I still haven't figured out how to work Cubase LE. That's another thread, though.



Can the mods please sticky this? I think it can become a really useful thread. if it was at the top, more people would see it and more people would contribute.

[drummerkid27]

dude their just u tapping the drums

[SMX_Dizzy]

dude their just u tapping the drums
What's your point? This is a sound sample thread...to get ideas about what different drums and mainly different mics sound like.

[AgateDrummer]

dude their just u tapping the drums
What's your point? This is a sound sample thread...to get ideas about what different drums and mainly different mics sound like.
I believe this is where this:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Demfer
The problem may lie somewhere between the keyboard and the chair.

becomes relevant. :D

[Chief Pronto]

i would like to contribute to this thread cuz it's cool.... but it's highly flawed.

it really won't give you a sense of the mics true sound because each one of us has a different kit, tunings, different sounding room, different mic placements, different interfaces we run the mics through, and different abilities in the post-production stage.

its cool to compare, but I wouldn't go as far as "oh, that clip sounded good - i have to get the same mics because they obviously are to credit for how good those drums sound"

someone could have a shure sm drum pack and really really bad placements and EQing, whereas someone could have a cad drum pack, know how to place them and tailor the sound in post well enough to make them sound better than the shure pack.


i remember a thread on here with a guy who had like 8 kick mics, and he tested and recorded them all. same drum, same placement, same room, same drummer, same EQ (totally flat)... but different mic. THAT was an accurate resemblance of what different mics sound like... and if this thread is to be of any quality, we should adopt an approach similar to that.

[SMX_Dizzy]

Hmmm...how can we make a thread like that? Maybe I should just make a "Drum Sample" thread just to display how your drum's sound. But again, that gets into who sucks at micing,etc.

[Chief Pronto]

Hmmm...how can we make a thread like that? Maybe I should just make a "Drum Sample" thread just to display how your drum's sound. But again, that gets into who sucks at micing,etc.

well both ideas are good for different reasons. one thread is dedicated to the mic itself - showing how the mic performs in a controlled environment. another thread just showcases members with their mics and other setups to show what kind of sound they can get with the entire rig.

[joe_skindeep]

i would like to contribute to this thread cuz it's cool.... but it's highly flawed.

it really won't give you a sense of the mics true sound because each one of us has a different kit, tunings, different sounding room, different mic placements, different interfaces we run the mics through, and different abilities in the post-production stage.

its cool to compare, but I wouldn't go as far as "oh, that clip sounded good - i have to get the same mics because they obviously are to credit for how good those drums sound"

someone could have a shure sm drum pack and really really bad placements and EQing, whereas someone could have a cad drum pack, know how to place them and tailor the sound in post well enough to make them sound better than the shure pack.


i remember a thread on here with a guy who had like 8 kick mics, and he tested and recorded them all. same drum, same placement, same room, same drummer, same EQ (totally flat)... but different mic. THAT was an accurate resemblance of what different mics sound like... and if this thread is to be of any quality, we should adopt an approach similar to that.

i agree the only way to test mics is yourself

[TuoKaerf]

dude their just u tapping the drums

oMg lik lOl dis rawkz.

Annoying to read that, isn't it?

i agree the only way to test mics is yourself

Well, that is 75% true.

There are certain "stock" charactaristics that certain microphones have, which is why they are used over and over again on a snare in different rooms with different drum/head combos.

[unclesam]

Sample 1 (http://samsites.be/dw5/sample1.wma)

Sample 2 (http://samsites.be/dw5/sample2.wma)

Sample 3 (http://samsites.be/dw5/Townes%20van%20Zandt.wma)

[drummerkid27]

Sample 1 (http://samsites.be/dw5/sample1.wma)

Sample 2 (http://samsites.be/dw5/sample2.wma)

Sample 3 (http://samsites.be/dw5/Townes%20van%20Zandt.wma)

what mics/mixer(s) did you use?

[SippyCup]

I recorded a short clip of my 16" BRX floor tom with a new coated G2 head.

http://www.thepitsrock.com/drum%20dynamic.mp3
This is an SM57 about five inches from the drum head, pointed straight down near the rim.

http://www.thepitsrock.com/drum%20condenser.mp3
This is an Audio Technica AT2020 large diaphragm condenser with a pop filter. It's about five inches away, pointed down at the rim at about 45 degrees.

For some reason, I got a really bassy sound out of the SM57. I prefer the condenser, since it sounds a lot more open and natural, but the SM57 did pretty well, I'd say. Some people might actually prefer it.

[seatbelttailgrab]

I use some VERY cheap Nady mics - DMK3 I think is what the set is called, anyways, it is only a set of 3 mics, along with what I think is a Samson C01 condenser mic for the snare. It's not great quality or anything, but this is a sample of what you would end up with if you had a very budget setup: http://www.myspace.com/205975441

[seatbelttailgrab]

Oh, and excuse my Planet Z crash in that one LOL. I will be upgrading that within a couple of weeks, once I get the cash.

[Guiratist]

I recorded a short clip of my 16" BRX floor tom with a new coated G2 head.

http://www.thepitsrock.com/drum%20dynamic.mp3
This is an SM57 about five inches from the drum head, pointed straight down near the rim.
I think that sounds pretty good. I always think floor toms are the hardest to get
good sounds out of.

[Unavailable]

I recorded a short clip of my 16" BRX floor tom with a new coated G2 head.

http://www.thepitsrock.com/drum%20dynamic.mp3
This is an SM57 about five inches from the drum head, pointed straight down near the rim.

http://www.thepitsrock.com/drum%20condenser.mp3
This is an Audio Technica AT2020 large diaphragm condenser with a pop filter. It's about five inches away, pointed down at the rim at about 45 degrees.

For some reason, I got a really bassy sound out of the SM57. I prefer the condenser, since it sounds a lot more open and natural, but the SM57 did pretty well, I'd say. Some people might actually prefer it.

I too prefer the AT. Sounds bigger.

[Roshan]

Heres a few clips i made, just sound samples.
I think they sound pretty decent. Any comments?

http://media.putfile.com/drums-sound-sample
http://media.putfile.com/cymbals-sound-sample

Also the two sound files in my sig were recorded before i got new heads, not quite as good a sound as now.
wow

what heads are you using on them now?