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Drums: Anatomy, Preparation & Miking Technique

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Here's what you'll learn:

  • The Anatomy of a Drum Kit

  • Types of Woods & Metal Drum Shells & how it affects the sound

  • Differences in Heads & Sticks & how it affects the sound

  • Choosing The Right Drum

  • Why the recorded drum sound is determined before a single microphone is placed — and the connected chain of shell, bearing edge, head, tuning, and dampening that determines everything

  • How to prepare and set up a drum kit for recording — ergonomics, cymbal positioning, and the two factors nobody talks about that affect both studio and live sound

  • Tuning — how to tune for the room, the style, and the microphone

  • Microphone Types & how it affects the sound (with samples)

  • Every mic configuration covered — close miking, May Miking System inside the shell, XY, Blumlein, ORTF, Spaced Pair, Glyn Johns, Recorderman, and the John Bonham sound including tuning

  • How to set up headphone sends, run line checks, configure your DAW for drums, and make EQ, gate, and compression decisions on the way in

  • Mixing Drums Introduction – from natural to fully processed — including New York, LA, and London approaches as distinct methodologies