I recorded along to an old Hue and Cry Midi File called Ordinary Angel. The kit being used is a Sonor Jungle Kit (8″ rack tom,10″ rack tom,14″ floor tom,16″ kick drum) in white Sparkle. The room I recorded in is my tiny practice room 8′x6′x6′. The cymbals are a mish mash of Paiste Sound formula 13′ Hi Hats, 16″ Zildjian Rock Crash, 20″ Heavy K Ride, Sabian HHX cymbal which was heavily cracked so my dad (DIY Genius) chopped the crack out of it and then decided to drill it. The Snare is a Pearl MLX Soprano 12×7″ hence it’s cut and high pitch. The mic’s are Audix D6 on the kick drum, 2x Shure SM57’s on the snare, Sennheisser 604’s on the toms, Rhode NT1’s as OH’s. I also use a Sennheisser 614 on the hats but run out of inputs on the Motu 8pre. Also using a laptop with Cubase SX3 as midi Sequencer. The midi file was put thru Roland Hypercanvas. The laptop thankfully did not clap out on me. Considering it’s a Centrino CPU with only a 1 gig of ram, it did very well for this purpose. I purposely lifted the drums in this recording as it was a drum video I mixed it very drum heavy so this is not how I would mix generally speaking. Also added extra reverb to the snare as it sounded too flat through laptop speakers. For further info contact me at cyberdaz@hotmail.com or www.myspace.com/cyberdaz. Anyway have a listen!
