With a more natural snare drum sound to be had in the overhead mics, trying to bring it forward from cymbals and other elements in the mics can be a challenge. Here we share three ways to get away from close mic boredom.
How To Remove Reverb From Drums
Although drum recordings can be made almost anywhere, some rooms’ character can sound anything but pro in room mics and overheads. Here we share a technique to banish boxiness but keep a sense of space.
Recording Drum Overheads? Start Here
Drums are the most complex recording challenge many people encounter. Getting the overheads right really helps as it’s the context in which all the other mics sit. If you’re new to recording drums, or even if you aren’t, here’s where we suggest you start.
Seven Drum Tuning Tips To Help In The Studio
With a good drummer and the right room, well tuned drums are the final piece in the puzzle to get right before pressing record. With some drummers and engineers leaving it to the other to know how to coax the best sound, we share some tips.
Create Believable Drum Room Ambience On Dry Recordings
Close drum recordings can lack the sense of size and space that comes with more distant placements. Generating it from scratch takes more than just adding a reverb audio plugin, but the results can be surprisingly convincing. We show you how.
Recording Drums At Home - Steve DeMott's Basement Tapes
Steve DeMott loves tracking drums and is used to tracking them in a proper studio with high ceilings and a choice of mics and preamps. In this article he sees how far he can replicate his tracking process using just the mics he has hat home, a basement and his 13 year old son as a stand-in session drummer.
Processing Drums For A Natural Sound With The Help Of Sonnox
William Wittman made an excellent point in his recent post on the history of drum recording. He said: “In today’s DAW world, we have so many brilliant options for manipulating sound after the fact should allow you to feel more comfortable with simpler mic approaches, not less so”. This got Julian thinking. “So many techniques increase the possibilities presented by fewer tracks, Oxford Drum Gate is one such technique”. See how he got on in this free video.
Take A Tour Of Pro Tools Expert James Ivey's Drum Room And Mobile Recording Rig
Each of us on the team is often asked about the gear we have personally chosen to use in our own recording studios and recording environments. In this article, with its two videos, James Ivey shows his new(ish) drum kit and the mics he has chosen to get his signature drum sound. He also shows his new location recording rig, which is compact, portable and sounds great.
Drum Overheads - A Stereo Pair Or Cymbal Spot Mics?
Stereo miking isn’t just putting up two mics, panning them left and right and hoping for the best, there is maths behind it and something which has been confusing Julian is why so many people seem to set overheads in a way which to him doesn’t add up.