We don’t have the luxury of a separate live room and control room and in the past recordings have been done all together ‘live’ in said one room. With a maximum of 8 recording tracks (focusrite saffire Pro 10/10) this has meant heavy compromises in terms of flexibility and to some degree quality of the recordings.
This time around we are trying a more traditional studio approach of recording separately. This now means we can have 7 tracks for the drums which will hopefully give us a better drum sound? Although we have all voiced reservations of how this method will affect the feel of the tracks with the lack of visual cues you get from a live recording, we are going to give it a try anyway.
The room is an ‘L’ shape with a sloping ceiling from 1m to 2.4m over the 5m width of the room and the length is about 7m. All in all quite small. I’ve already got my head around the fact that I’m not going to be able to get the kind of drum sound I have in my head from a room this size but I’m willing to experiment.
The back wall along the full length is block work and the ceiling is some kind of insulation board. there is a metal vent in the ceiling and the plan is to cover this over with maybe a duvet or something as the drum kit will unfortunately be positioned directly underneath.
With a carpeted floor and the other half of the room filled with junk from a house move its going to be fun finding out how things are gonna sound.
