AA2 Week 4 Percussion

For this task i played around with the room to create an atmosphere, what i found out is that percussion instruments rely heavily on their environment. The best sounds, i.e. the ones with the most depth were the ones using room mics. Getting the balance of the room with a direct sound source is the tricky bit, i found that just the slightest room volume gave it a great sound and good atmosphere, but with too much the sound was weak and uncontrollable. With the room mic levels perfect it was just a matter of playing with the EQ to add more presence. One problem i found was a resonating room sound that became quite annoying and detracted from the recording. To remove this frequency i found it with the eq and dropped just this frequency from the final mix. Here are my efforts playing with the room and percussion.

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References:

Grice, David. "Percussion." Lecture. Adelaide University. 25/3/08