Mixing the drums

After a few days off to go and see Pearl jam, it's back to work on music. I had a treat to come back to -our drum recordings. It's always good fun mixing drums cos you add Eq and variious subtle effects to each track bit by bit and the sound just keeps on getting better. I'm happy with how the drum tracks turned out. You can hear that it's a pretty beaten up drum kit, and the room could have been better, but providing the durms don't need to be super high in the mix, I think it sounds pretty good.

Day 6 - recording with Tamira - Drums!!!

Despite advice against it from almost eveyrone I mentioned it to, I decided that since Tamira can play the drums we should take a go at putting drums on at least some of the tracks. Drums are notoriously difficult to record have them sound good, but in line with the "lo-fi/let's just do what we can" nature of all my music endeavours we decided to rent a studio for 3 hours at Melody line and see what we could get out of a beaten up old drum kit. 

Tamira kept it simple didn't make any mistakes and we managed to reocrd her drumming 2 takes on 4 of the tracks.... who knows what it will sound like mixed.