Drum Recording

Learning Advisor: Philipp Zumbrunnen

Philipp Zumbrunnen, a Switzerland based recording engineer, producer, and mixer, fell in love with music when he was about 10 years old. His first LP was a Beatles record, followed by Yes and Pink Floyd. His favour was cutting hits on his first analog double deck. That‘s how the rise began in the middle of 1980‘s.

He was a founding member and guitarist of the crossover

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Course Description

You will learn essential and important techniques for recording drums. You will learn how to setup the recording room, to establish good communication to the drummer, to check for any click problems, how to run a session in different situations (e.g, with or without band, cymbals after kick, snare and hihat) and to find out why a good room is important for recording.

Course Prerequisites

Basic kowledgements about mixing desks and studio signal flow, basic recording workflow.

Course Aims

• Understand the equipment we need for a good drum rec.
• Become knowledgable in areas such as communication and headphone mix, recording room and different types of microphones, EQing, phasing.

Course Topics

• Equipment and rooms
• Setup (mixing desk, recording room, communication and headphone mix)
• Recording (soundcheck, compressor and eq, click, samples)
• Mixing (stereo image, parallel compression)

Course Outcomes

• Setup for a drum recording
• Record a perfect drum
• Optimize using the equipment
• Mix the drum

Required Resources

• Ideal but not essential access to drum, mics, mixing desk

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