Recording Drum Kit

This it the drum kit that we recorded by using close mic technique. Placed the AKG D112 just outside the kick, MD421 for the beater and also placed Neumann 1m apart from the kick to capture the whole kit. For the snare used SM57 pointed to the center of the snare and MD421 pointed to the center of the Tom. Placed two AKG414B as stereo space pair for overhead. Some how all the mic from the kick, snare and tom did not sound good for me, as you can hear the clip above. Without room mic they all sound really weak and not really punchy. I noticed that the room mic really made different here. Also need to do a lot work to fix this when we mix them down.

Recording Piano

The piano track was not so bad overall, being said that I also think something still not quite right because of the way we set up the mic. We used a stereo space pair technique so there might be time delay between the mic if I was right. Listened with the headphone and noticed that the image tends to be on the right hand side.

Recording Electric Guitar

The electric guitar which was quite straightforward and we recorded it with the orange amp and also used the MD421 positioned it about 3/4 inches away from the amp. And also placed Neumann as a room mic. Overall it was not so bad and gave us very clean and try sound as you can hear the clip above.

Recording Bass Guitar

For the bass guitar, people normally just recorded by plugging the guitar directly into the DI. In our case, we just want to experiment how it will sound if we record with both method. So, we used the amp as well as DI. Placed the SM57 very close to the Roland amp. Since we know that if we place the mic very close to the sound source, it will produce proximity effect so will increase the low frequency response. Also found out that combined these two method it made our sound thicker.