Release Year: 2010
Manufacturer: MacProVideo
Website: www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/recording-drums
Author: Singing Canary
Duration: 2:05:45
Type of Material: Video Tutorial
Language: English
- 1.15 GB
Description: Capturing the sound and energy of a drum kit is essential if you want to create great-sounding tracks. In this lesson, audio experts at Singing Canary will invite you into the studio and share everything they know about capturing drum sounds.
This lesson was created by producer Greg Javier and engineer Clint Murphy. Greg has worked with artists such as Super Furry Animals, Catatonia, Lost Prophets, Bullet For My Valentine, and Manic Street Preachers. Clint has won numerous awards in the UK, Europe, and New Zealand.
This course will teach you how to set up a drum kit. You’ll explore various microphone types and microphone placement techniques, from single mics to multi-mic techniques. You’ll learn how to capture individual drums: kick, snare, and toms. Next, you’ll move on to overhead and room recording techniques.
In this tutorial, the audio experts at Singing Canary reveal the secrets of getting those platinum-sounding drum sounds for every band… elevate your tracks to the next level with this 2-hour tutorial!
Recording the sound and energy of the drum kit is essential knowledge that you’ve got to know if you’re going to be making great-sounding tracks. In this tutorial, the audio experts at Singing Canary bring you into the studio and share with you everything they know about capturing the essence of the drums.
This tutorial features producer Greg Haver and engineer Clint Murphy. Greg has worked with artists such as Super Furry Animals, Catatonia, Lost Prophets, Bullet For My Valentine, and Manic Street Preachers. Clint is an award winning recording/mix engineer with numerous chart successes in the UK, Europe and New Zealand.
With Greg and Clint leading the way you’ll learn about drum kit set up and tuning. Then you’re off to explore all the different kinds of microphones and mic placement techniques from single mic to multi-mic setups. You’ll learn to capture all the individual drums from the kick, to the snare, and toms. With the drum tracks are recorded, you’ll move on to explore expert techniques for recording the overheads, and room.
All recording requires software, so the tutorial moves on to a detailed section on phase relationships, multi-track comping and editing. Finally, there’s an in-depth look at the techniques involved in drum replacement editing.
Recording Drums is an essential part of our Art of Audio Recording series. No matter what DAW you use to produce your tracks after watching this tutorial your drum tracks will sound like they were recorded by a world class engineer. And best of all, that engineer is YOU!
Content :
01. Prologue (02:04)
02. Introduction (01:40)
03. Replacing The Snare Head (07:53)
04. Tuning The Snare (06:05)
05. Tuning The Kick (05:15)
06. Replacing The Tom Heads (04:08)
07. Tuning The Toms (06:23)
08. 1 Mic Technique 1 (02:28)
09. 1 Mic Technique 2 (01:27)
10. 1 Mic Technique 3 (01:32)
11. Decca Tree (04:14)
12. Expanded Decca Tree (02:34)
13. Kick Drum Mic Technique (01:09)
14. Snare Drum Mic Technique (01:25)
15. Tom Mic Technique (00:43)
16. Hi Hats and Overheads Mic Technique (01:00)
17. Room Mic Technique (03:06)
18. Tuning In A Live Room (01:26)
19. Drums In A Live Room/Expanded Set Up (03:16)
20. Phase (06:28)
21. Drum Comping (07:21)
22. Drum Editing (17:23)
23. Drum Sample Replacement/Layering (24:59)
24. Different Types of Percussion (06:49)
25. Mic Positioning (02:58)
26. Bongos (01:45)
Sample files: none
Video format: MOV
Video: AVC, 960×540, 16:9, 25.000 fps, 1,193 Kbps
Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 96.0 Kbps, 2 channels
