Music Recording & Production at SHStudios

Recording Drums, Percussion - & Dealing with People Who Like to Hit Things 9 .  Here at The Coolest Recording Studio In London Town - we got ways & means - & we got magic trix up our sleeves !!   Drums - are generally close mic'd - this gives producers the opportunity to manipulate the audio with precision - in case the room mics sounded bad, or there was bleed from other sound sources - or if the space was different sounding to what the audio now requires - i.e. - production ideas have changed.  Plate or boundary mics are great for picking up / recording ambient spaces - either creatively (put one behind a piano or guitar amp - or on the ceiling)  - or as a strait resource - 6 feet in front of a guitar amp facing up - or as a drum overhead.  In this picture - we have all thr drums close mic'd - but there is also a mic behind the drummers head, and another 6 feet in front facing the kit. These two mics will be out of phase with each other - but

Recording Drums, Percussion - & Dealing with People Who Like to Hit Things 8 .   Here at The Coolest Recording Studio in London Town - we like our different mic preamps - & we got a bunch of types & flavours.  Drums!  Generally speaking - you want a nice Fast Solid State mic preamp to capture the whip & crack of a drum - & to keep the metalwork ( cymbals etc) bright, crisp, shiny & clean.   Also - you'll be recording the space around the drum - the ambience of the room - so you'll mainly be after some sharp, quick preamp to pick up the nuances of the player.   So why use a valve / tube preamp?  rft neumann gefell mic pre   Yep - tube preamps are Much slower to track audio waves than solid state pre's - but boy do they add personality, warmth & a depth that only tubes can. There's a "thickness" to tube preamps - a kind of golden solidity - so while you may not want them as a stereo pair for your overheads - u