I thought I’d wait until it was warm out before I attempted a barn session, but I got a forced air 60,000 BTU propane heater on clearance at Menards, so we got a kick start on the season. With the Audimute acoustic blankets I scored on Craigslist drying up the close mics, I put my C414 at the other end of the barn and ran it through my recently assembled DIYRecording CP5 preamp, smashing it with some ’15IPS tape saturation’ colour. Based on how it sounded when we bought the house (no insulation, just studs and OSB) I was kinda worried I’d dried the room up too much, but it’s actually a great sounding drum room, especially with 20ft of space above the kit. I also tried the room mic upstairs in the hayloft, but it sounded kinda weak. Have a listen to a clip below, with room, without room, just room (you’ll figure it out). I left the scratch guitars in for context. Not sure how well this wordpress hosted audio will work so here it is, first as a 12mb wav. and then as a 1mb mp3. Let me know how they stream.
Chuck's Vegetable Stand 