AA1- Week 10 - Drums

This was the most fun of all of our AA assignments, but it was also the most time consuming.

We recorded several samples, most of them just us 'attempting' to play along to songs. We picked the two samples which had the best drumming, although it was still pretty poor.

For both the recordings we had the whole kit miked up. We used 421s on the floor and mid toms, a Beta 52A on the kick, 2 Rhode NT5's for the overheads, 2 Neuman U87s for the room mics, an SM 57 for the snare, a Neuman KM 84i for the hi-hat and finally a Shure 56A on the high tom.

The first recording is with the whole kit mixed in. I went through and added some compression and EQ for most of the parts. I also did a general mixdown of volume so everything was at the right levels. LISTEN.

The second recording is with the whole set-up, but with everything except the snare, kick and two overheads muted. LISTEN.

You can obviously hear that the first recording has the more 'fuller' sound, but I think that in many situations the simple '4 mic' set-up would work just fine.