How To Mic A Drum Kit
Congratulations! Your new studio is up and running. You have an interface and a DAW, you set up a pair of monitors, and you’ve treated your control room. Now, it's finally time to start recording the album. But where do you start?
Most engineers choose to start recording a song with the drums, since they’re the rhythmic foundation for the song and provide a groove for the other musicians to play along to.
But laying down a solid drum track can be one of the most exhausting activities performed in the studio. It can take hours to properly set up and mic a drum kit, and even then you have to worry about masking, phase, and clipping on a dozen or more channels.
If that sounds crazy to you, don’t panic. In this installment of Home Recording Basics, we’re going to cover several different methods for mic’ing up a drum kit from start to finish, with as few as one, two, or three microphones. We’ll also go over how to mic each part of the drum kit individually, just in case.
This is an excerpt from How To Mic A Drum Kit, originally published by Reverb. Read the full version here.
Comments