Hello
I have mic'd drums many ways in the past but have only just got back into recording in the last 12 months. On this recording
I used the "Recorderman Technique" to record the drums. As my audio interface only has 2 inputs I needed a technique that would sound great using 2 mics as I wanted to, and have, released the song/album.
Heres a link to the Recorderman 2 Drum Mic Technique
What I did and used:
I set the mics up exactly like the video using string.
I first used a matched pair of se3300e's as the first video I saw said matched pairs were the way to go. I ended up using 1 se3300e over the drummers head and a Rode K2 to the right of the drummer as the K2 picked up more bottom end and more of the kick and floor tom. The mics went into my old behringer 2 channel mic pre amp and then into myfocusrite saffire 6. I recorded into cubase.
When mixing the takes I EQd them so they were similar sounding then grouped the channel. I then used Cubase Vintage Comp really hard and the standard Cubase Comp only slighthly. I then used Cubase multiband Comp to shape the sound of the whole drum kit and then used the Da Tube plugin as a sort of glue (kind of like an old tape machine would) to bring the whole sound of the kit closer together. I then went to town on the EQ so to make the kick and snare more prominent.
Has anyone else tried this and what results did they get?
Anybody else have any cool techniques for micing drums with only a few mics?
I was happy with the result. It sounds like a drum kit as you hear it from the drummers perspective. I would probly mic the kick and snare up to if I had the inputs but am more than happy with this.