I have a headache. My ears are ringing. I just spent six hours trying to lay down a drum track. Three hours getting our makeshift mic setup functioning and sounding as decent as we can get it. Then three hours of recording, listening, recording, listening, recording, etc etc...
Finally, we get some good tracks down, but dang if it don't have audio hiss and popping here and there. So we re-do it. Same problem, one of the mics kicked it. We replace the mic, and try again. Still some audio hiss. Not much, but enough.
He's getting tired, I'm getting tired. We try again for another hour. Audio hiss, can't figure out what's going on. No single channel seems to be the culprit. So we call it a day.
I get back in the studio and listen to the track before bed. Lo and behold, the monitor output is maxed, as well as the headphone output. There is no audible white noise on our tracks, only audio distortion because the output is too high.
Now we have to re-do the entire thing, because the good tracks, the tracks on-beat and with some neat fills and junk were deleted because of 'audio hiss'.
Blurg. I hate recording drums.
Finally, we get some good tracks down, but dang if it don't have audio hiss and popping here and there. So we re-do it. Same problem, one of the mics kicked it. We replace the mic, and try again. Still some audio hiss. Not much, but enough.
He's getting tired, I'm getting tired. We try again for another hour. Audio hiss, can't figure out what's going on. No single channel seems to be the culprit. So we call it a day.
I get back in the studio and listen to the track before bed. Lo and behold, the monitor output is maxed, as well as the headphone output. There is no audible white noise on our tracks, only audio distortion because the output is too high.
Now we have to re-do the entire thing, because the good tracks, the tracks on-beat and with some neat fills and junk were deleted because of 'audio hiss'.
Blurg. I hate recording drums.
