Recording Drums w/Jeremy

This has been a busy week for me with the band: Monday was the audition with Brett (on drums), Wednesday Jeremy and I met up to record some drums at his place, yesterday (Friday) we met up with Doug for a quasi full-band rehearsal, and today Jeremy and I are going to get together to do some mixing with my demo versions in Ableton.

After having discovered how appropriate Jeremy's sensibilities with the drums are for our group, we decided to have a session where we sat down and recorded his ideas for our first two songs so that we could both use these as drum tracks for our rough demos and also show the parts to potential drummers so that they might better understand what we're looking for.

Personally, I don't really have any experience with recording drums, but Jeremy set up two mics (one of which was suspended MacGyver-style) to get a more well-rounded sound. While the drums have certainly proven useful for my demo files at home, they do sound a little out of place with the studio-quality synth sounds I'm using, as there was a significant amount of natural reverb in the room where we recorded and the drums ultimately sound a bit cheap (due to the miking).

Still, it was a valuable session and certainly helped us both solidify a little more what we're looking to do with the songs, both in terms of overall energy and the drum parts themselves.