Recording a drum kit through one channel? How?

[trandg]

Hi there,

was wondering how you would go about doing this. Would you just mic all the drums through the mixer then put it all through one channel?


Thanks!

David G. Tran

So how do you guys record your drums?

 

[muttley]

A mic on each drum,some mics would do 2 drums, like both toms.
Use a small mixer as a premixer, then mix down to the one track, no fixing in the mix once this is done though.
If you are new to recording, WELCOME! , there are some good books on this subject, also reccording magazines cover this subject too.
All drums on one track is kind of hard to do well, but not impossible.

 

[Dom Franco]

I usually sub-mix drums to Stereo (Two Tracks)

But sometimes I'll mix drum tracks to one channel. If I do I mike the cymbals separately and cut all frequencies on those mikes but upper end, then mike the kick and boost bass freq's and cut highs. I mike snare and toms with boosted mids and cut low end a bit.

I do all this and try to get a real good balance in mono or stereo.

Then later on if necessary, I still have some mix control over the drum kit by EQ changes. (Highs for Cymbals, Mids snare, and bass for kick) It really works very well, and most time it just takes a small tweak to level out the kit sound.

Dom

 

[muttley]

I like that idea Dom, I'll give it a try!



da Mutt.