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Ok Trent Hatfield Mason For you midi based band, I suggest you download a program called Fruity Loops 3.0 Its like midi but it uses samples so it sounds way better. You just arrange it and then export it as a wave file and put it in cool edit or whatever u use, this sounds sooooooo much better than midi!!
K, foe your other band, you can get away with a cheaper setup, but theres a few things you need to keep in mind...
-make sure the drum mics cant hear anything (for example put your guitar amps outside the room)
-make sure your drums sound abseloutly unreal before you start recording (new skins are great, but at least a new skin on the snare)
-make sure your drummer hits them ****ing hard
ok heres the setup...
Put a dynamic mic in the kick drum (prefferably a kick drum mic, but a vocal one will do if it has to)
-Put another one on the snare
-put a condenser mic over the whole kit (if it really really has to be, use a vocal mic with the gain turned up a bit)
Thats an allright setup on a budget.
Anothe option is to hire mics. With stands and leads it only costs about $10 per night, so if you could get all the drums done in two days then that would be relatively cheap.
There you go, hope that helped!
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