I would use an sm58 right near drum, as close without getting in your way, to get impacts. Then also use a set of stereo condenser mics about 3ft away to get room harmonics and ambience.
I would say trial and error. Room acoustics makes a huge impact on recordings. Maybe try a few different rooms or look up some videos on treating your room acoustically. They make some sound dampening blankets that you could makeshift a recording booth with. That would help take away any audio that is being colored by the room. I would also try a few different mic placements, or even mic it up with several mics. Sort of like recording guitar, you don't want the mic to catch the boom of the sound hole or in your case the boom of the strike. Seems the mic is pretty far away from the drums. Maybe move it closer. The rode NT1 mic picks up from the front and sides and rejects sound from the back. Maybe move it a little closer or if you are doing it from over head, the mic needs to be parallel to the service. or of you move it down, maybe put it at a 45 degree angle facing the drum. I actually just bought the behringer UMC404hd interface and plan on doing some testing with several different mics. Those drums sound pretty good. I would love to hear them live.
Thanks! I will keep experimenting. Right now I only have one mic but hopefully I can pick up some more and maybe one day build myself a little studio with better room acoustics. Thanks for the advice!
Using Shure SM58 & Presonus Audio USB interface. I've been struggling with same issue lately: finding best way to record steel tongue drum. I use Audacity but have Reaper (Aud. seemed more user friendly to me). I've seen pictures of traditional rock bands recording drums and their microphones are suspended up in the air hovering above the drums. I think this angle helps capture the radiance. I still have trouble capturing that radiating rigging that the drum has live. I've found that the lighter taps & overall sound in recording just sounds pinging & dinky, it doesn't have that warm hum. When I strike the tongues with more force the recording is better but shame limited to that striking technique when recording. Wish could capture better. Let us know how goes.
Amazing drums man!! What key was that cherry drum tuned to? It sounds amazing I have made about 7 of these drums and am a little nervous about tuning them just because i dont want to screw it up. And how do you make a drum pentatonic in tuning i'm not very musically inclined but am eager to learn. Thanks
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I would use an sm58 right near drum, as close without getting in your way, to get impacts.
Then also use a set of stereo condenser mics about 3ft away to get room harmonics and ambience.
I would assign all mics to different tracks so you can control the mix.
I would say trial and error. Room acoustics makes a huge impact on recordings. Maybe try a few different rooms or look up some videos on treating your room acoustically. They make some sound dampening blankets that you could makeshift a recording booth with. That would help take away any audio that is being colored by the room.
I would also try a few different mic placements, or even mic it up with several mics. Sort of like recording guitar, you don't want the mic to catch the boom of the sound hole or in your case the boom of the strike. Seems the mic is pretty far away from the drums. Maybe move it closer. The rode NT1 mic picks up from the front and sides and rejects sound from the back. Maybe move it a little closer or if you are doing it from over head, the mic needs to be parallel to the service. or of you move it down, maybe put it at a 45 degree angle facing the drum.
I actually just bought the behringer UMC404hd interface and plan on doing some testing with several different mics. Those drums sound pretty good. I would love to hear them live.
Thanks! I will keep experimenting. Right now I only have one mic but hopefully I can pick up some more and maybe one day build myself a little studio with better room acoustics. Thanks for the advice!
Any vid on how to made one?
Using Shure SM58 & Presonus Audio USB interface. I've been struggling with same issue lately: finding best way to record steel tongue drum. I use Audacity but have Reaper (Aud. seemed more user friendly to me). I've seen pictures of traditional rock bands recording drums and their microphones are suspended up in the air hovering above the drums. I think this angle helps capture the radiance. I still have trouble capturing that radiating rigging that the drum has live. I've found that the lighter taps & overall sound in recording just sounds pinging & dinky, it doesn't have that warm hum. When I strike the tongues with more force the recording is better but shame limited to that striking technique when recording. Wish could capture better. Let us know how goes.
Amazing drums man!! What key was that cherry drum tuned to? It sounds amazing I have made about 7 of these drums and am a little nervous about tuning them just because i dont want to screw it up. And how do you make a drum pentatonic in tuning i'm not very musically inclined but am eager to learn.
Thanks