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Old 06-03-2004, 01:51 AM   #19
Trent Hatfield Manson
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Originally Posted by theabstract
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!
hey thanks for that
the thing with my MIDI type band is i have Fruity Loops, it aint really what i'm looking for, it seems to pre-done so i feel limited, maybe i'm just not using it right or something but yeh.... I've downloaded a trial version of a program called MIDI Maker, i was wondering if you knew of any programs alond those lines but better quality.
Any help would be great
Thanks
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