Recording Diary v15 (12/15/07)

Today we set out to record the drums for a new song "Cause and Effect"

We started out by setting up the mics on the new DW Buddy Rich Re-Issue Drum set, which our friend Brain lent us. This is a honey of a drum set and sounds wonderful.

We set up the mics in our usual "pepper" mic placements and did some testing recording only to discover that the ADK overhead mic has gone south, as it now sounds kinda murky. It could be a cord or the power amp as well..we'll have to look at later. So we set up another ADK in the overhead and it sounded great/normal. Then we took about an hour of testing drum sounds (playing drums, recording, listening, repeat, rinse) until we found a sound that we liked.

We then set up the guitar in Jeff's headphones so I could teach him the song. We played with different drum approaches finally deciding on a "four on the floor" sixteenth note on the hi-hat pattern than grooves nicely.

We then played with the tempo, speeding up the song a bit.

After a few takes Jeff nailed the performance.