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Recording Tip of the Day: Recording Drums In-Phase!

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Uploaded by on Nov 12, 2009

Nothing phases Chris Baseford! This tip of the day focuses on microphone phase alignment on the drum kit.

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  • he says "flip the phase" when really he means "flip the polarity" :) no wonder people get confused by it.

  • Hz can b translated 2 Cycles. 20 hz = 20 cycles ...... also 20Hz + 40Hz = in phase.......20 +30 Hz = outta phase, but @60 hz in phase, so the freq will double. Tricky stuff, it just get more complex from there.. Probably the most important thing in Audio is phase but, Trust your ears, saves time. Learn what a comb filter is and what it sounds like and you'll understand what Phasing sounds like. Hope this was informative to someone.

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  • What? Was that Tommy Lee?

  • Would not the different tuning/notes of each drum, each have a different wave length? Then the distance of each mic be different? The proper distance being a harmonic lowest common denominator so the different freqs hit the mics inphase?

  • Why is there a tv in the tracking room.....i want one

  • @danakerman After watching this video it makes a lot more sense than just a 3 foot rule of thumb.

  • @Pepsifx357 That really has nothing to do with phase coherency, and more to do with stereo imaging. You can have your overheads 3 or more feet apart, but if one is 50% closer to the snare than the other, then you're going to have some bad phase coherency on the snare sound.

  • I was taught the 3 foot rule. The overheads need to be at least 3 feet away from eachother. But your ears pretty much negate that if you actually use 'em.

  • Very nice job.

  • Great info, thanks alot!

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