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Checking phase on a drum kit

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From the course: Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Recording

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Checking phase on a drum kit

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I'm going to run you through what I do when I'm checking phase on a drum kit. So here, what I first do, is isolate just the overhead mics. I'm going to put those in mono, you can hit a mono switch on your monitor controller if you want. What I do is pane them up to the center so there both coming through, mono. And I'll listen to a little bit of the overheads by themselves. (MUSIC) Then I'll flip the polarity on one of the overhead tracks, obviously not both because then they would still have the same relationship to each other. (MUSIC) Well, I bet we can say (MUSIC) that that sounds better. What I'm listening for all the way through here is to see if there's phase cancellations that are suckin' out the low parts of the audio. And you heard right there, those tracks thinned out. They should, because they were recorded with two mics on a stereo bar in an XY configuration, so the mics were very close to each other and picking up all the sound at the same time. We're not going to be so…

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