Beanstalk
Well-Known Member
This seems to becoming more and more common, especially for Kick and snare drums. So is it a cardinal sin? An admittance of mic placement failure?
Or just a sensible tool to use to compensate when you have poor quality mics/drums available for recording, and limited technique?
I think its quite useful, as some of my drum recordings to date needed cosmetic surgery, but I would hope to use it less and less as my technique improves. I think listening to the difference between some of my recorded drum mics and the 'ideal' samples, gives me a good grounding on what I am aiming for at times so my ear is also being trained for future recordings. But at the same time I cringe when I hear something like the drums on Green Day's American idiot album.
So where do you stand on this, and if you are partial to a bit of cheating* what do you use...sound replacer, drumagog, BFD?
* As opposed to delay, distortion, compression, EQ, etc...which is not cheating at all...oh no siree.
Or just a sensible tool to use to compensate when you have poor quality mics/drums available for recording, and limited technique?
I think its quite useful, as some of my drum recordings to date needed cosmetic surgery, but I would hope to use it less and less as my technique improves. I think listening to the difference between some of my recorded drum mics and the 'ideal' samples, gives me a good grounding on what I am aiming for at times so my ear is also being trained for future recordings. But at the same time I cringe when I hear something like the drums on Green Day's American idiot album.
So where do you stand on this, and if you are partial to a bit of cheating* what do you use...sound replacer, drumagog, BFD?
* As opposed to delay, distortion, compression, EQ, etc...which is not cheating at all...oh no siree.