From the course: Drum Setup and Mic'ing in the Studio

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Mic'ing philosophy

Mic'ing philosophy

From the course: Drum Setup and Mic'ing in the Studio

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Mic'ing philosophy

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- There's a million ways to mic a drum kit. It's one of the most complicated instruments to record, 'cause there's so many things happening on it over a vast space in your studio. So what we're going to talk about right now is the way I mike drums for, you know, my typical rock, modern, pop kind of set up where you want a tight, punchy, controlled sound. So we're going to use a lot of close mics on each individual drum, we'll have a set of room mics that we'll play with, and then we'll have what I call my stunt mics, you know, the mics that are sort of the filler sound, if you will. Those are the ones I crush up, make them sound really nasty, and get a lot of character for the drum kit. One of the important things I think about with micing drums is what the mic is literally seeing. I mean, you know, hearing, but seeing. If you think about a microphone as having like a flashlight beam, you know, these are cardioid microphones here, a condenser and a dynamic, and they see like a…

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