What do i need and how do i do it?

[AlienFromUranus]

i have a laptop to record, some drums, and nothing else. i want to record some of my drumming and put it onto myspace. give me some info on what recording stuff i need and how to put onto myspace please.

[AlienFromUranus]

anyone? you'll get rep if you help me

[BRX rad]

Ok first off you'll need some drum mics. I'd say atleast a kick, snare, and some overheads. I'm going to suggest a Shure SM57 for the snare, legendary snare mic, you can't beat it. For the kick, a Beta 52A or PG52, both will work great. I use the PG52 and I love it, a little less expensive than the Beta 52A, but still is great!! For some overheads, either one or two will work. I use MXL 604's and I love them. If you wanna get something that's maybe a little better and a little more expensive go for some Shure PG81's. Then you'll need a mixing board that has enough inputs for all your mics. You'll also need a firepod and some decent recording software for ur laptop.

Then once you create the sound file on ur laptop, it's easy to upload it to myspace. You'll need to create a band myspace to be able to upload and play ur own songs on it. Once you do that, just go through the upload song guide on ur home page on myspace and ur set!!

Hope this helped a bit!! :D

[TuoKaerf]

How much $$$$$ do you have to spend?

[JrummerJ]

Ok first off you'll need some drum mics. I'd say atleast a kick, snare, and some overheads. I'm going to suggest a Shure SM57 for the snare, legendary snare mic, you can't beat it. For the kick, a Beta 52A or PG52, both will work great. I use the PG52 and I love it, a little less expensive than the Beta 52A, but still is great!! For some overheads, either one or two will work. I use MXL 604's and I love them. If you wanna get something that's maybe a little better and a little more expensive go for some Shure PG81's. Then you'll need a mixing board that has enough inputs for all your mics. You'll also need a firepod and some decent recording software for ur laptop.

Then once you create the sound file on ur laptop, it's easy to upload it to myspace. You'll need to create a band myspace to be able to upload and play ur own songs on it. Once you do that, just go through the upload song guide on ur home page on myspace and ur set!!

Hope this helped a bit!! :D

If you get something like a firepod, which has mic preamps, there is no need whatsoever for a mixer. All the mixing/panning/EQ/FX can be done with whatever software you choose, and most interfaces come with some type of software for free.

J

[Malakai]

http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/showthread.php?t=154744

[AlienFromUranus]

Ok first off you'll need some drum mics. I'd say atleast a kick, snare, and some overheads. I'm going to suggest a Shure SM57 for the snare, legendary snare mic, you can't beat it. For the kick, a Beta 52A or PG52, both will work great. I use the PG52 and I love it, a little less expensive than the Beta 52A, but still is great!! For some overheads, either one or two will work. I use MXL 604's and I love them. If you wanna get something that's maybe a little better and a little more expensive go for some Shure PG81's. Then you'll need a mixing board that has enough inputs for all your mics. You'll also need a firepod and some decent recording software for ur laptop.

Then once you create the sound file on ur laptop, it's easy to upload it to myspace. You'll need to create a band myspace to be able to upload and play ur own songs on it. Once you do that, just go through the upload song guide on ur home page on myspace and ur set!!

Hope this helped a bit!! :D

okay, then how do you, say, play along to a song and you could hear the song from the play-along CD?

[AlienFromUranus]

How much $$$$$ do you have to spend?

$400-$500, a little more if i have to

[surftex363]

$400-$500, a little more if i have to

seriously. if you dont have over 1k to devote to it, i recomend not doing, cause your just wasting that 500$

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seriously. if you dont have over 1k to devote to it, i recomend not doing, cause your just wasting that 500$

+1.

[drumonthebrain]

You don't actually HAVE to have a firepod. It is also just possible to spend most of your money on high quality mics. At least a bass, and overhead, but i suggest more (bass, snare, 2 overheads, and then you can add tom mics as needed.) Then you could just buy a mixer with enough inputs for the mics, and plug that into the line in (or microphone if you dont have a line in) of your laptop. This will cause all of the drums to be on one track, and you will have to add any EQ or effects to anything (besides the whole mix) before you record.

If you go the firepod route, there will be a seperate track for each of your mics, if I am not mistaken. and you can then add EQ or effects to individual drums.

[andrew[705]]

my band did some home recording this summer... we used a 30 year old peavey sound board, and an 8 peice drum mic set.

plug all of the mics into the board, then used 1/4" cable from the boards main out to a computer sound card. we used a fairly high end sound card, and adobe audition. the guy who was doing the mixing knew a thing or two with working with audition, so his experience + the high end sound card made things way better.

everything coming out of the board and into the computer came in 1 track. this meant we had to tediously sound check the **** out of everything before we started, to make sure the volumes were correct. we did the drums over several sessions, and this caused a little bit of inconsistency in the volumes (for whatever reason) which i think hurt our final product.

if i ever do it again, i would make sure to invest in equipment that would allow the volumes of each individual drum could be be altered on the computer screen, after the tracks were recorded. this way I can be sure that i'll be happy with the recording sessions.

some tracks can be heard at www.myspace.com/gilmourmusic . as you can probably hear, the lower end floor tom volumes arent high enough... a problem that i didnt realize until it was too late to re-record all of the drum parts... but had the drums been seperated into different parts on the computer screen, this could have easily been fixed.