Drum Overheads

Witam, to moze ja drugi:

Moje studio (ok 6x4x2,7m) jest na scianach wyłożone ecophonem co w nagraniach perkusji bywa problematyczne, mianowicie nagrania OH są ciemne i trzeba je ustawiac nisko nad bębnami (uzyskuję wtedy więcej dżwieku talerzy/góry, jednak całościowe brzmienie bebnow w OH mniej mi się wtedy podoba). Czy mozna w jakis realtywnie prosty sposob zmniejszyć efekt przegłuszenia studia (na czas nagrań perkusji)? Może podwieszać coś odbijającego nad bębnami (oprócz oczywiscie nagrywania bebnow w innym pomieszczeniu).

English: My studio (about 6x4x2,7m) has ecophon on each wall what makes my OH tracks quite dark, therefore I have to place microphones relatively low over the drums (I get more cymbal sound but the overall drum sound in OH is worse for me in that case). Can You suggest some easy solution to decrease the overdumped room effect (for drums tracking)? I wanted to hang some reflecting surface over the drums - would that be a good way to do it (apart from tracking drums in different room?)

Krzysiek

I'm not familiar with Ecophon, but the material I see on THIS page looks like typical office type ceiling tiles. That's not suitable for music applications because it's meant for speech frequencies. So it doesn't absorb enough at high frequencies, or at low frequencies. A better solution is either good quality acoustic foam, or rigid fiberglass or mineral wool. These absorb more than ceiling tiles, and the sound will have even less ambience. But the tonality should be truer. Recording drums in a small room with low ceilings is always a problem. It's just not possible to get a big sound in a small room. So the best solution is to absorb the reflections that make your recordings sound like a small room, then use reverb afterward when mixing.


--Ethan

I've found some chart with absorption properties of that kind of material (it is used for conference rooms indeed to improve speech illeglibility). Unfortunately I am not responsible for choosing ecophon. But basically it all makes sense - I would need to absorb more low frequencies.

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Thanks,
Kris