Recording digital drum kits has several advantages there are several ways to record (more of which later on), there’s no need for microphones or a live room (keeping costs down), the set-up is less of a headache than mic’ing up acoustic drums (for example achieving separation separating cymbals from drums with no audio bleeding across the microphones), and best of all you can achieve a result that equals the best drum recordings. For most people, it pays to hire a studio and engineer who can do this for you. And that’s if you know what you’re doing. When you consider the cost of decent mics, preparing a live room, then the hours of post-production work to perfect the sound, it can get expensive and time consuming. Recording acoustic drums is a science in its own right. Whether you go for acoustic drums or an electronic drum kit, the aim is the same to capture the drum recording so that it can be treated or edited. There’s no right or wrong way, but for the majority of drummers wanting to record their playing, the ‘best’ way to record drums is clear: achieving the best result, as simply as possible, quickly. Recording drums can be a technological minefield. DO I RECORD WITH ACOUSTIC OR ELECTRONIC DRUMS? Follow our guide and you’ll be well on your way to getting the perfect drum sound. Just make sure it covers your specific needs and that it's suitable for your workflow before buying.Planning to take YouTube by storm with your drumming skills? Want to listen back to your groove to see if you’re on the money? Penning the next Stairway with your band mates? Then you’ll need to record yourself playing drums. It has surpassed my expectations and I highly recommend it for the type of use I've explained above. To sum it up I'm quite impressed by EZ Drummer. This is a serious shortcoming in EZ in my opinion but with the right pads it's reasonably easy to work around and I guess Toontrack needs to save some features for the more expensive Superior. So if you want to lay out the drum kit in a specific way on your pads you will need to make sure you can change midi-channels on your pads.
It's also worth mentioning that unlike Superior you can't change midi-channels inside EZ. It didn't matter much to me though as our plan was never to use the editor. I'm sure it could work fine for copy/pasting 3x vers/chorus + bridge for a 3min pop song but anything more ambitious and it seems rather useless to me. Very fiddly to use, very limited control with tiny areas to work on. I've not used the editor part of EZ much but I've tried it briefly and it seemed very poorly designed to me. Many of the presets in EZ are great though, if a little heavy on the reverb for my taste. They can still be tweaked quite a bit without sounding bad and they usually need a little work to sit properly in a mix.
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Plus I felt the sounds in the basic package felt a lot more processed.Īll the EZ drum sounds ARE processed though (unlike Superior which isn't processed) but for the most part not OVER-processed. The sounds in some of the expansion packs were a much better fit for what we needed with the Southern Soul pack being a personal favourite of mine. We did however NOT use the sounds included in the basic EZ package. But as long as the general groove worked it was worth the effort. Velocity has the hardest part to get right using pads so I had to do quite a bit of midi-editing to fix the odd hits that triggered too low or too hard. Basically we tried to keep things as "real" as possible and not nailed to a grid. We did quantize some tracks but only very lightly. Nothing programmed, no preset rythms (but I doubt there's any preset packages with anything resebling the rythms we used, mostly odd signatures like 7/8, 5/4, etc.). We played all the EZ drum tracks "live" using pads.
Or at least that's the hardest thing to get right. Getting the cymbal dynamics right on softer songs is the part where EZ fails in my experience. One little trick that made EZ partly usable on almost any song was to re-record only the cymbals with real ones. The softer, more organic/open songs didn't work so well with EZ, or at least we couldn't make them work good enough.
Generally the tracks we kept were the busier tracks with tight rythm sections and huge arrangements. Many of the tracks turned out so great that we kept the EZ version and never bothered with real drums. I got this for a prog rock studio project where the idea was to use it for composing/arranging and then re-record the songs properly with a real drum kit.
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