Drum Recording Workshop by Jedidiah from 21:05 Productions

We are honoured to have Mr. Jedi back at ICOM again for another round of Drum Recording Workshop! This time we have Mr. Ng Kae Vin on drums (also an ICOM CAP Alumni).

The workshop started with much information and insights on knowing your instrument, recording environments as well as the microphone selections. We are recording directly to Focusrite Audio Interface, hence no processing on the audio before recording.

Here were the list of drum parts that were tracked: Kick (Condenser), Kick (Dynamic), Snare (Top), Snare (Bottom), Hihats, Tom 1, Tom 2, Floor Tom,  "Overheads" Left, "Overheads" Right and a Room Mic.

And also some pictures to give everyone a snippets of the workshop.

Firstly, lets talk about the kick/bass drum miking.

Putting the mic in the kick drum carefully.

Next up, snares both top and bottom.

Hihats miking, not quite necessaries at sometimes, according to Mr. Jedi.

The OH style that Mr. Jedi prefers, not the conventional type.

Measuring it based on the equidistance concept.

Elaine, one of the great helper for the workshop.

This was the drum miking setup.

Brian Wong assisting the Pro Tools manoeuvring.

Double checking the signals.

Mr. Ng Kae Vin showing off his drumming skills.

Lastly, the wrap up and the Q & A session.

There you go, the drum workshop for the January 2014 semester was filled with insightful information for the newbies!

Here's the link to the Raw Drum recording performed by Mr. Ng Kae Vin, all tracks were used (leveled balanced, panned & phased check)
https://soundcloud.com/chuang-nian-tze/raw-drums