Recording big-sounding drums at home
Freaking Out With Billy HumeEditor's pick
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Billy Hume shows how he records drums: tuning, kit placement, mic choice and position, room mics, and how the sound is built before any plugins.
A working engineer's whole drum-recording method, start to finish.
- 0:00 Intro
- 2:12 Kick drum mics
- 12:05 Snare drum mics
- 19:07 Dampening drums
- 22:03 Tuning
- 30:24 Micing the Toms
- 32:16 Overhead mic placement
- 35:30 My favorite High Hat mic
- 38:00 Micing the Ride Cymbal
- 40:35 Room mics
- 41:26 Mono room mic that turned into a front of kit mic
- 46:33 LoFi mic
- 48:12 Listening to all the mics together - mixing and balancing
- 53:09 Adding a Cross Stick mic
- 54:58 The gear that I'm using
- 57:34 Switching snare drums
- 1:00:20 Messing with the room mics
- 1:04:37 Finally...recording