Recording Drums

Mark Mynett, sound engineer and senior lecturer at Huddersfield University, talks us through the setup and recording of live drums.

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:36 - Recording Multiple Instruments
01:12 - Pre-Recording Preparation
03:46 - 1. Miking The Kick
12:08 - 2. Miking The Snare
24:24 - 3. Miking The Toms
29:24 - 4. Miking The Cymbals
38:54 - 5. Overheads For Room Ambience

Mark Mynett Biog
As well as Senior Lecturer in Music Technology and Production at Huddersfield University, Mark Mynett is a live music front-of-house engineer, and record producer/engineer/mix and mastering engineer. Mainly focused on indie, rock and metal genres, he produces from his own studio - Mynetaur Productions – where he recently completed the latest My Dying Bride album ‘The Ghost of Orion’: referred to by Dom Lawson (The Guardian, Metal Hammer, Prog, Classic Rock) as “…a master class in modern metal production”.
Metal Music Manual (instructional book for producing contemporary metal music)

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