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Your Start to Great Drum Tracks

Your Start to Great Drum Tracks Recording your drum tracks can be one of the most challenging aspects of recording your bands music. If anything makes your music sound like a home brew, it’s because something went wrong in your drum tracks. A Drumming Review can come in handy for helping identify your tune.  This article will be the first part of a series of multiple articles on drum production and recording. To understand more about how microphones work and why they sound so quiet, check out https://musiccritic.com/articles/why-is-my-mic-so-quiet. The article offers some of the quick fixes that most people can do to boost the volume of their microphones.  Today we’ll cover how to place the microphones over the drum kit or otherwise known as “overheads”. We’ll cover two approaches and a fun fact on cymbal tone: A classic Beatles era overhead miking approach A new school asymmetrical approach A insight to shaping brittle cymbal tones, and cool stereo effects And of course, we’ll pair each of these sections with videos. So you can hear what I’m talking about and take it all in. That’s the point…isn’t it? Limitations Are Not a Deal Breaker Let’s face it…we all have limitations. These …

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