Drum Recording

Course Information

Fees: € 375,- (approx: US$ 477,- or £ 299,-, other currencies)

Course Language: English English

Learning Advisor: Philipp Zumbrunnen

Duration: 4 Weeks

Level: 101 Beginner

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

In this course you will learn essential techniques for recording live drums and how to get a good drum sound. Drum recording can be one of the most complex aspects of a session, and thusly one of the most important to know how to do properly. You will learn everything from how to setup the recording room to a introduction to drum mixing, processing and compression.

Topics for this course include:

Room selection and set up
Microphone selection
Different approaches to tracking drums
Recording drums with the band, separately, or in pieces
Communicating with the drummer
Headphone mixes
Processing drums
Mixing drums

This course is perfect for drummers, producers, and engineers who have recorded drums in the past, but have not gotten "The Sound" that they want. If you want a good drum sound, start here with this course. When you complete the Drum Recording Course and go into a recording studio thereafter, your session will run more smoothly and your drum sound will be better than it has ever been before.

Prerequisites
Aims
Topics
Outcomes
Resources

Basic knowledge about:

Mixing desks
Studio signal flow
Basic recording workflow.

Understand the equipment we need for a good drum recording.
Become knowledgable in areas such as:
- Communication and headphone mix
- Recording rooms
- Microphone types and techniques
- EQing
- Dynamics
- Phasing

Equipment and rooms
Setup
- Mixing desk
- Recording room
- Communication
- Headphone mix
- Microphone types and selection
Recording
- Soundcheck
- Compressor
- EQ
- Click
- Samples
Mixing
- Mix preparation
- Mixing approach for drums
- Stereo image
- Parallel compression

By the end of the course the student will be able to:

Setup for a drum recording
Record a perfect drum
Optimize the sound using studio equipment
Mix the drum kit and place it within the total mix

Ideal but not essential access to drums, mics, and mixing desk