Tony DeMedeiros - Drum kit microphone setup

A brief tutorial on microphone setup to record a drum kit by the pro sound man Tony DeMedeiros

Category:

Music

Tags:

• music
• drums
• recording
• microphone
• setup

[Willdutchbro]

thx man learned a lot!

the drummer of my band has only two mics which overviews the kit. does it matter for the moment as we are starting to make the home studio that we start by those mics first (and then add other mics later ) ?

[zme2]

You might want to add mics for the kick and snare when you can, or rent a set of drum mics when you want to record the final tracks.

[dgentile83]

What do you plug the mics into a regular pa system?

[zme2]

Directly into the recording unit, either an audio work station or a computer based unit with multiple inputs.

[dgentile83]

Nice, what amplifies the drums during a live gig though pa speakers?

[zme2]

Yeah, that would be the way. If you are recording a live gig, you would probably go to the mixer first and have extra outs going to your recorder. It might be difficult to have enough mic inputs to have 7 or 8 for drums and enough for everything else in a live gig. This demo was a home studio recording where the song is built up.

[seventeen17van]

wow. this was one of the only videos i could find that i actually benefited a lot from. thank you for putting this up!

[kristiansharpe]

It's all open to preference, sticks, brushes, player, mics, room, engineer, parametric eq, outboard, dynamics, RT60's, head texture, tension, shell wood, humidity, monitoring, phase correlation.

1, I notice you're not implementing the under snare mic technique? 180 degrees out of phase ...bang! there's your snare bass!

2, Sum and difference overheads?

3, Crossed pair overheads?

nice bit o' drummin... ;-)

[whuataaaaah]

thx this helped, just bought 2 new condensator mics, had trouble placing them properly...I think I know what to do now...

thx for uploading this

[simonpca]

""If it sounds thin on its own together with everything else it will sound phat or big (which ever words suits you).""

Sooooooo true! :P

[HenryLJ]

Right. Those MD421 looks nice. I use a AKG D112 on kick (what model is urs again) SM57 are brillint on snares. I would recommend asking drummer to flatten cymblas (it helps get a more natural filling sound out of them due to hitting them in the right place.) but thats only really drummer preference. But best rule i heard is "If it sounds thin on its own together with everything else it will sound phat or big (which ever words suits you)."

[HoboCabbage]

i find the sm57 to be good for snares, toms, and guitar amps, for any other purpose they are lacking in the transient high end. (60Hz-16Khz range) and dramatically rolled off up to 16. i LOOOVE the audio technica 3035. large diaphram condensor great range, and a nice natural balanced frequency response. but maybe tooo sensitive for some applications.

[bman10030]

nice

[pardiddle]

Excellent.

[coronet67]

Thanks for putting this up. I'm learning and got a few good tips.

[cjcdrums]

Great video man