Recording Drums

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I routinely recorded drums with four mics: an RE20 in the bass drum, a 57 between the hat and the snare, and a pair of condensers overhead. A set-up like this separates the men from the boys, in terms of being a drummer who can tune and balance their kit.
 
Seamus OReally said:
I routinely recorded drums with four mics: an RE20 in the bass drum, a 57 between the hat and the snare, and a pair of condensers overhead. A set-up like this separates the men from the boys, in terms of being a drummer who can tune and balance their kit.
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Back when my Son was still at home, we recorded/released several projects with Boyo on drums. I did not mix back them but I had things mixed by generous ST people and the drum sounds worked fine within the songs. Boyo is off at school doing jazzy drumming and gigs a lot. Since his band is RnB fusion with jazz on top, he plays a small kit with really good cymbals. A while back I was asking him how he has been recorded for this and that and he said his three trips to track in real studios, they used some configuration of drum mics that was similar to what we do.

New drummer thumps them hard. I have always loved the SOUND of a lot of very heavy artists/bands but often the lyrics and posturing I did not care for. New guy is the heaviest drummer I have played with. I think it might do my "old people garage band" some good. We know loads of people so we can gig as soon as we piece a few songs together. Fingers crossed.
 
Seamus OReally said:
I routinely recorded drums with four mics: an RE20 in the bass drum, a 57 between the hat and the snare, and a pair of condensers overhead. A set-up like this separates the men from the boys, in terms of being a drummer who can tune and balance their kit.
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You know what is kind of a big deal when doing that kind of drum mic setup?? The cymbals need to sound good. Bad hi hats were near the end of me back in the day, and for this most recent project, Boyo did not loan me any of his main working hats but loaned me a set of New Beats. We are using a better ride and crashes and it's just way easier to make them sound good.
 
We did drums a couple days ago, new drummer, on one of the originals. We did our usual 5 mic setup. Drummer has been recorded quite a bit. As has been the case over and over, players, drummers, look a bit skeptical, but when we play the naked tracks of their performance, they are happy. The cymbals we are using are much better and solved some problems from years ago, but now, it seems it all just keeps working.
 
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