I have a bunch of old office cubicular things that could be used as well as iso boxes if need be...

I would make the recording softer (lower in volume), trying to imagine that fine point of picking up the instrument in the front but not any other ambient noise of the room. Might be hard to do, but I would make the recording lower in volume and less in volume than having the mics set to loud for the recording.

Pay close attention also to mic placement  if you plan to use  drumagog to help prevent triggering problems. Mic as close as possible and maybe even isolate with foam.    A heavy quilt thrown over the kick drum will also help isolate it from everything else. If you can get the a descent recording of the overheads you can use the feature  " copy as midi " in Audio snap  to replace / blend samples from Session Drummer or whatever with the other drum tracks.  The Motown set sounds excellent in many situations.  

UbiquitousBubba


I'm guessing that, "record them in a smaller room" is not the answer you're looking for... 

This is the solution. 
 
Chatting to one of the band yesterday it turns out that the warehouse has a small "side office" which we can use and is big enough to setup the drums in.

I'll take a couple of duvets quilts as well,  (just incase I get bored and need a rest)

Well done :)

Karyn

UbiquitousBubba


I'm guessing that, "record them in a smaller room" is not the answer you're looking for... 

This is the solution. 
 
Chatting to one of the band yesterday it turns out that the warehouse has a small "side office" which we can use and is big enough to setup the drums in.

I'll take a couple of duvets quilts as well,  (just incase I get bored and need a rest)

perfect!

Well - how did it go?

RabbitSeason


Well - how did it go?

It was,  errrr,  satisfactory.
 
Could have used more time,  or less songs..
 
I did tracking only,  mics straight to disk.  No EQ,  very basic headphone mix so they could hear each other.
Other than the playback checks at the time I've not even heard any of it myself yet.
 
I'll run up a quick mix of the 3 tracks tonight so they have something they can show off to their friends, then a propper mix in 4 weeks or so when I get back from the Olympics.
 
 
 
The warehouse turned out not to be a warehouse.  Or it would have been a warehouse but they got moved to a nearby office building.   Largish room with carpet and hard walls.  One corner was paneled off to produce a small corner office,  I used that as a drum booth.
 
Could have been better with more time, but good enough on the night.
 
They're talking about a whole CD now....

Well....If they have that one office ask the band to hang blankets  around the walls before you get there....also ask them to maybe figure out a configuration to where they hang some blankets up and divide up the space so that each memeber has their own space so that it could help keep leakage down....

Let them do the work...and maybe try to show up a day or two ahead of time to help maybe guide them a little for the next go around.

Just a thought.
Clifford