#105: How To Create Massive Drum Room Sounds From Small Room Recordings

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Big, amazing sounding tracking rooms are a luxury you don’t always have access to. So you need a way to get a great drum sound, even if the room was small and not ideal. 

“Great drum tone” is usually a combination of the punchy transient you get from close mics and the size, length, sustain, width, depth and character you get from overheads and room mics.

On this episode we're discussing different techniques that you can use to get the most out of your close mics and overheads and then we're explaining how to create “fake room mic tracks” to make your drums sound as massive as you want, even if there are no "real" room mics in your session at all!

Things we cover:

• Ask yourself: Do you even need huge sounding room mics? (maybe dead and dry is ok)
• (Parallel) Compression/saturation/transient shaping to get length and sustain out of close mics/overheads
• Duplicating overheads and creating a fake “small room” mic pair from them
• Using reverb and room IRs (and how to do that properly)
• Using room samples
• “Reamping” drum rooms
• Gating room mics (sometimes parts of a “bad room” are okay - so only let that through!)

Let's go!

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