How to Record Drums

Video Transcript

"So, you're looking to record drums now. Ideally, if you have all the money in the world and all the time in the world and everything you want, you can buy every single drum and get a couple of overheads on there and fantastic but realistically, you're probably not going to have all the mics or all the time in the world, all the equipment that you want so use some things you can think about. A really, really basic setup all you really need is just one mic in the room and get a recording. It's just not going to be the best quality. A really basic setup, you can do two overhead mics and just try to capture everything from two different mics over your drum kit. If you have a few more mics in your arsenal few more resources, a kick drum is a good thing to mic, some ear drums sometimes top and bottom, high hat those are three good ones to go with and then get a couple of overheads on there and you can probably get a pretty good recording just from that. Once you have your mic setup, you want to run them to a mixer or maybe directly to your computer. Most things these days most studio work, you're going to use some sort of computer and computer software. Good programs to go with are Pro Tools, Reason, Adobe Audition. Those are three good ones to start with. Do some research again find out what's good within your price range and what's going to work for what you're trying to record but those are some pretty basic ideas that should get you going on your way."