From the course: Drum Setup and Mic'ing in the Studio
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The proper tuning of the kick and snare
From the course: Drum Setup and Mic'ing in the Studio
The proper tuning of the kick and snare
- We've got our drums picked, we've got our heads on them, now it's time to tune the drums and make them sound great in the room before we can put the microphones on them. Again, part of getting the great sound from the drums is making the actual drums sound good to your ear in the room. Because if they don't sound good in here, they're never gonna sound good in the control room, under the microscope, with microphones on them. So Ross is gonna walk us through tuning some drums and treating them to make them sound awesome in here. - Okay, so let's start with the kick drum. This kick drum, at this point, nothing inside of it, this is the way it sounds. (plays kick drum) And it's not bad, where it's at, but it's not right for what we're doing today. So we're gonna adjust it a little bit and the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna put a little muffling inside of it because the heads are just a little too resonant the way they are. - So right now it's wide open, right? Nothing is…
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