FREE Drum Recording Tips Presentation:

Unusual Tips and Strategies to

Hack Your Drum Sound!

by Mike Gilliland – Recording Engineer, Drum Recording Expert

In this FREE presentation below, you’ll find:

• 3 unique hacks for improving your drums sound
• A list of Top 5 voted drums, cymbals, heads, and microphones for the 7 most popular music genres
• 2 of the most common acoustical problems and how to fix them
• How to use my “input steps” miking recommendations to find out what you can do with a range of microphones and inputs ranging from 1 to 24 inputs

Do you play in a band, produce, or record music? Click Here for your FREE Presentation with important tips and hacks for recording drums and getting a killer drum sound in any studio (home or pro).

7 Facts You MUST Understand if You Are Ever Going to Get Great Sounding Drum Recordings.

1. Drums are notoriously one of the hardest instruments to record because the drum kit is not actually one instrument. It’s a combination of several individual instruments, sometimes as many as 40 separate pieces! You need to record each instrument on its own, or figure out a way to accurately record each of the drum pieces as a whole inside of a single room.
   
2. Recording the drums is difficult because there are so many different variables: the drummer’s playing style, genre, drum equipment, skins, mic settings, preamps, analog to digital conversion, channel strips, hardware, software, digital audio workstations, samples libraries, and mixing approaches. Each variable can vastly affect the way you approach a session and what gear you need for the job.
   
3. Recording equipment can be incredibly expensive, and if you don’t know whether a drum, microphone, or other piece of hardware is going to do the job for you, you’ll end up wasting a lot of money through trial and error. We’ll explore some ways of getting around this in a minute.
   
4. Commercial sound proofing materials also cost thousands of dollars (seriously, a full set of commercial acoustic panels, bass traps and sound-proofing averages over $4000), but it’s possible to build the exact same functional materials for a fraction of the cost.

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5. To record drums at a commercial studio, you need to save a lot of money, and there’s no room for error if you’re on a budget. You don’t get too many chances to get it right. If you own the studio and the gear however, you can record until you get the take perfect.
6. Getting great sounds with Electronic drums is possible, but for many people its just as difficult as recording real drums. The components, gear, software, recording approach, and type of knowledge needed to get a great recorded sound with electronic drums is way different than acoustic drums.
7. In order to get real experience with recording, you either need to go to school, work in a studio, or figure out a way to do it yourself. Recording arts colleges commonly charge upwards of $30,000 for their courses, and internships are not fun and they take years of near-janitorial work before you can move on to a real position. However, there is another option…

Here’s how you can really hack your drum sound…

Click Here to discover several unique and effective techniques for getting drum sounds like your favorite records.