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Killer Home Recording: Drums

By Brandon Drury

After completing Killer Home Recording: Audio Engineering and Killer Home Recording: Setting Up, you'll want tackle the ultra-specifics that go into getting a great drum sound in Killer Home Recording: Drums. We'll put the icing on the cake in Killer Home Recording: Murderous Mixing.

Typical drums recorded at home, even with expensive drum kits (and even well-tuned drum kits and expensive gear), sound thin, wimpy, harsh, dull, or boring. If your drum sounds don't ROCK, you are done from the start. There's no way around it. In fact, you can often get away with okay sounding instruments if your drums are really pounding.

Your Drum Sounds Will Rock

First and foremost, you need to be aware of the modern tools that have transformed the ways drums are recorded. Home studios are EMPOWERED LIKE CRAZY if you know what is out there and out how to apply it to your music.

You need to be armed with all the tactics so you know exactly what to expect from a drummer's performance, a drummer's kit, and a drummer's tuning. Not knowing how to push drummers is the number one flaw in drum recording. We'll solve all of that for you so you can focus on the fun stuff like:

• Drum mic placement
• Drum compression (covered in greater depth in Killer Home Recording: Murderous Mixing)
• Common Drum EQ Issues
• When to use reverb and when not to use reverb and why
• The close mic vs distance mic issue and why beginners ALWAYS screw this up
• My secret weapon, the ultra-trash mic
• The good, bad, and ugly of hihat mics
• The impact of ultra-expensive microphones
• The impact of ultra-expensive preamps
• Non-conventional mic placements that KILL

Most beginners screw up just about everyone one of these seemingly small factors. I can tell you right now that once you get all of these right, your recordings are going to improve DRAMATICALLY!

Specific Solutions For Recording Drums At Home

The odds are strong that your favorite drum sounds weren't done in a bedroom or garage. That\s the typical view of home recorders. It's a wimpy, bs, defeatist view that sickens me. Why? Because those drum sounds you love so much are 10% room and 90% creativity (once you've got a strong foundation of what goes into a drum sound). This is why a pro engineer could walk into your room and come out with a recording that sounds great.

Killer Home Recording: Drums is about laying that foundation, but also showing you how to progress forward from situations that are technically ideal and turning them into sonically interesting recordings that excite people.

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