Recorded a demo with my phone mic in a parking garage to see what would happen

I set up my drum kit in an empty parking garage at night and recorded a punk demo using just the voice memos app on my iPhone. The reverb was insane but I got a weird hollow thump from the concrete floor that ruined the kick drum sound. Has anyone else tried recording in weird spots and gotten a surprise sound you couldn't fix?

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matthew_baker8h ago

Flip that around on you for a second. That hollow thump is actually a gift, not a problem. Punk is supposed to sound raw and janky, not polished. If your kick drum sounded clean and perfect you'd just be another generic band that recorded in a treated studio. Concrete floor thump is the sound of being broke and desperate and I honestly love it. Bands like The Stooges or early Black Flag had all kinds of fucked up sounds on their recordings and that's what made them legendary. Your kick drum being weird is a feature, not a bug. Lean into it and call it "character.