Two mics for drums. MXL2001 above, Radioshack PZM inda kick.
Oh. Then i turned the mic pres all of the way up.
There must be some sort of limiter in the Alesis, because this isn't straight up digital distortion. Maybe straight up opamp distortion though(that could be what is limiting things also). Sucks for fast stuff, but it is, i am sad to say, one of my favorite sounds, ever, for slow drum beats.
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As i was hitting the record button, you can hear me muttering to myself as to what i expected the resultant wav files to look like.
There is like, no extra compression on this, just a limiter to make sure nothing spiked above 0dB on mixdown. Then i looped the one section of slowbeat a little.
This one is silly, but i do think that i am going to return to this much simpler drum tracking method.
I also think i am going to start paying a lot less attention to whether or not the channels are visually clipping. I actually prefer the sound of a little dirt.
Allllllso, i think i am done using the CAD kick drum mic for that porpoise for a while anyhow. The Ratshack PZM gives a much more focused, crisp kick sound without any EQ. I may finally do the phantom power mods for the thing though, as it would be very nice to not need to feed the thing AA batteries all the fucking time. The mod is kind of fiddly though, i have definitely been putting it off.
