{"id":515,"date":"2016-07-06T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T11:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/?page_id=515"},"modified":"2019-04-01T19:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T19:55:26","slug":"drum-recording","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/?page_id=515","title":{"rendered":"Drum Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wayne<\/a>Drum Mic’ing is a hotly contested issue. \u00a0There are lots of ways to do it. \u00a0This is how we did it this time. \u00a0You can hear\u00a0the results for yourself here.\u00a0https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/karl-walsh3\/a-wonderful-end<\/a><\/p>\n

First the Bass drum<\/p>\n

\"B52\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Inside for bass and depth \u00a0the Shure B52 \u00a0right inside the drum, pointing at the beater. \u00a0(Notice the excessive \u00a0padding in there! Frederick Apps loves it.)<\/p>\n

\"AT<\/a><\/p>\n

Outside hovering\u00a0over the front of the bass drum an Audio Technica AT 4040, this condenser mic will pickup the top end of the Bass drum as well as the depth it will also provide the attack as the beater hits the skin. \u00a0(I had to be careful here not to get in Frederick’s way)<\/p>\n

\"SM<\/a><\/p>\n

For the snare we used the popular SM57 both above and below. \u00a0(Notice that the mic above has been shrouded with insulation to try to minimise the bleed from Frederick’s ‘too low’ cymbals) \u00a0This mic should be close to the skin and also pointing at the place where the drummer hits the skin.<\/p>\n

\"SM57\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Below the drum\u00a0we point the mic right at\u00a0the snare!<\/p>\n

\"AT<\/a><\/p>\n

The HiHat mic is an AT 4041 \u00a0the general rule here is nearer the edge the higher the frequency \u00a0 (Nearer the centre of the cymbal gives you bassier \u00a0warmer tone.) \u00a0I wanted it crisp and high.<\/p>\n

\"E904\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Frederick only uses a floor tom \u00a0(go figure) \u00a0we used this E 904 that clips on to the side of the drum. \u00a0It was so easy and the sound from it was immense. (Even after Frederick taped all of the towels out of the bathroom onto the skin to dampen it.)<\/p>\n

\"stereo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We set the overheads to the left and right of the kit suitably far away to get a decent stereo effect but not so far that they \u00a0missed any\u00a0of the bass frequencies. \u00a0I used AKG 414 (because its the best mic I’ve got) \u00a0and Karl Markham’s Rode NT2-A. \u00a0I didn’t worry about them not being a matched pair because Fredrick’s kit is not symmetrical in any sense (neither is he).<\/p>\n

\"AKG414\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Its worth noting that the centre of a kit is not where you might think. Experienced engineers will point out that the centre line is drawn through the snare and the bass drum. \u00a0so we set up our mics slightly to the front and left and to the back and right.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0mics were plugged into a Focusrite audio interface that was\u00a0in turn firewired to a an iMac running Logic pro X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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