How To Record Drums For 5 Genres: Classic & Modern Rock, Smooth '70s, Indie Folk, and Jazz | Reverb — Transcript

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1. 0:00hey guys this is Jessica Burd oh and
2. 0:01Matt Jordan over at reverb and today we
3. 0:04are going to show you how to tune and
4. 0:05mic a drum set for five different genres
5. 0:08walk through everything from the mic
6. 0:10setup to the drum tuning to mixing tips
7. 0:13so without further ado let's get started
8. 0:15star wipe
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10. 0:26all right so let's talk about classic
11. 0:28rock specifically the Glyn John's
12. 0:30technique Glyn John's is a really
13. 0:32well-known producer an engineer who
14. 0:34worked with some of the most famous
15. 0:35classic rock bands of the 60s and 70s
16. 0:37his drum miking technique only takes
17. 0:40three microphones there is a dedicated
18. 0:41kick drum mic as well as two ribbon mics
19. 0:44one is placed right above the snare drum
20. 0:47kind of capturing the whole kit the
21. 0:49other one is off to the side peeking
22. 0:51over the floor time looking right at the
23. 0:52hi-hat both are spaced equally about 40
24. 0:55to 60 inches away from the snare to
25. 0:57avoid phasing issues so with this
26. 0:59technique you're gonna get a big boomy
27. 1:01classic rock drum sound it's not very
28. 1:04articulate there's no close mics
29. 1:06involved aside from the kick drum all
30. 1:08you need to do in the mixing phase maybe
31. 1:10EQ a little bit maybe compress a little
32. 1:12bit and just bring all of those faders
33. 1:14up so that all three channels are the
34. 1:16same volume for our classic rock sound
35. 1:18we're gonna want a wide-open medium
36. 1:20tuning our resonant heads to be pitch
37. 1:23slightly higher than our batter heads
38. 1:25and then also a little bit of muffling
39. 1:27on our kicking snare
40. 1:28[Music]
41. 1:53alright let's talk about making up a
42. 1:56drum kit for jazz again we're only gonna
43. 1:57utilize three microphones here we've got
44. 2:00a pair of small diaphragm condensers
45. 2:02right above the kit in an XY pattern at
46. 2:0490 degrees that's gonna give us a nice
47. 2:06stereo image of the whole kit but not
48. 2:08too wide and then we've got a shure KSM
49. 2:11353 ribbon on the kick it's gonna give
50. 2:13us a nice warm round punchy kick drum so
51. 2:16for our jazz tuning we brought the pitch
52. 2:18of all of our heads up and then took the
53. 2:20muffling off of the kick drum and the
54. 2:23snare next we're gonna cover indie rock
55. 2:41and folk we're gonna use four
56. 2:43microphones in this setup we've got a
57. 2:45space pair of ribbons that are
58. 2:46equidistant from the snare behind me
59. 2:48we've got a shirt KSM 3:53 ribbon on the
60. 2:51kick and then an sm57 on the snare so
61. 2:54when mixing we're gonna rely more
62. 2:56heavily on the space pair of ribbons and
63. 2:58then add the kick and the snare mics to
64. 3:00taste this is going to give us a really
65. 3:01dry but open sound and the reason we
66. 3:04have the mics behind the kit is to
67. 3:06strike a better balance between the
68. 3:07drums and the cymbals since we're only
69. 3:09using four microphones for our indie
70. 3:11folk rock sound we have a much deeper
71. 3:13tuning on all of our drums heavy
72. 3:16muffling on our snare moderate muffling
73. 3:18on our kick drum and our Tom's and
74. 3:21that's going to achieve a darker drier
75. 3:23sound
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77. 3:46so next up we're going to cover the
78. 3:48smooth dry tight drum kit sound that was
79. 3:51so prevalent in the 70s what we're doing
80. 3:53is we're close miking each drum so we're
81. 3:55using a kick snare rack tom and floor
82. 3:58tom Mike they're all dynamic microphones
83. 4:00and a space pair of overheads which are
84. 4:02small diaphragm condensers in the mix of
85. 4:05this one we're probably going to be
86. 4:06favoring the closed mics over the
87. 4:08overheads to get that really tight
88. 4:09punchy hits you in the face type of
89. 4:11sound for our smooth 70's drum kit sound
90. 4:14we added towels to the heads to dampen
91. 4:16them and kill a lot of that sustain and
92. 4:19we did the same for the bass drum but we
93. 4:22removed the head and stuffed it with
94. 4:23this synthetic sheep-like item
95. 4:28[Laughter]
96. 4:31[Music]
97. 4:38[Music]
98. 4:53[Music]
99. 5:01[Music]
100. 5:07next we're gonna cover a miking setup
101. 5:09for a standard modern rock drum kit we
102. 5:12have a shure beta 57 57 on the snare we
103. 5:17also have closed mics on the rack and
104. 5:19the floor toms we also have a pair of
105. 5:21small diaphragm condensers as overheads
106. 5:24spaced equidistant from the snare but in
107. 5:26a space pair configuration and a pair of
108. 5:29room mics which are sure KSM 3-13
109. 5:32ribbons so the first thing you'll notice
110. 5:34in this configuration is we're using a
111. 5:36lot more microphones the reason for that
112. 5:39is the name of the game is control in
113. 5:41modern music so if we hit a chorus or a
114. 5:43hook and we want to bring those room
115. 5:45mics up to make it sound more explosive
116. 5:47we can we also have focused tones for
117. 5:50each individual drum because we're using
118. 5:51closed mics on each one for a modern
119. 5:54rock sound we want medium low tuning
120. 5:56with moderate muffling on the kick and
121. 5:58snare to keep it nice and punchy
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123. 6:15[Music]
124. 6:27all right so there you have it there's
125. 6:29five different ways to make a drum kit
126. 6:31for five different genres we hope you
127. 6:33can take what you learned in this video
128. 6:34and apply it to your own record as
129. 6:36always all these mics are available on
130. 6:38reverb comm let us know what you think
131. 6:40in the comments and we'll see you next
132. 6:42time
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