Welcome to Studio 131
Drums: There are lot of options for your rhythm tracks. One way is to bring your drums and record them here. Another way is to record drums in a bigger studio and do the rest here. We also offer great drum programming in house that sounds so realistic it's hard to tell if it's a drum machine or real. So lotsa choices available. |
The main room here is about 5m x 6m about 30m2. During overdubs and general playback it feels nice and still. Its a very useable recording environment from spoken word through jazz groups through to rock and pop bands. |
Currently we record drums using the Glynn Johns method. This setup has been used by the Rolling Stones, The Who and Led Zeppelin. It involves using 2 overhead mics (AT&T 2020 and 2021 or 3528) a mic on the front of the kick (AKG D112) a Shure SM57 on top of snare, plus another 57 under the snare. |
These 5 signals go through a converter and into 5 logic tracks. 3 dynamics on the kit plus 2 x condensers overhead builds up a classic drums stereo image. From there we can easily phase check and apply EQ and compression to suit. Drum machine is another option, we use EziDrummer 2 and we do customised drum tracks all the time. We are sorta known for doing realistic sounding drum programming in other words "How a drummer would play it". Once the drums are sorted you can move on to overdubs. NEXT |