How To Record Drums with 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 Microphones with Brian Deck | Reverb How To Record

You kept saying check phase, but never offered and in depth explanation on how to. Great.

Wouldn't the use of 5 mice require your interface to have 5 spots to plug in?

Just the first mic sounds awesome!!

You mention; to check phase on the 2 mic setup. I understand the concept, but how do you actually know when something is out of phase?

These were all 414's and what on the snare? I didnt recognize the mic

So he says to check phase a lot, without telling us how to do that. I know speaker phase check but I’m not sure about mic phase.

Check polarity check polarity keep checking polarity. I hate that face and polarity are used interchangeably even by professional.

Could someone tell my what that first mic is?

Random, but this guy seems like he would be the Ryan Reynolds of the drum miking world

I just want to know the mics used in this. I've only seen them in a spot when my uncle was recording a jazz record

THANK YOU SO MUSH I REALLY REALLY APPRECIATE IT AND NOW I GET TO GO AND TRY IT OUT!!!

So what I gather from this video is I don't have to worry about phase, right? ;D

If I could afford a Neumann U87…I wouldn't need the talcum powder. 🥴

Would've been possible for the drummer to play for, Oh, I dunno, 10 more seconds on each sample??

THis video is only 5 minutes long, but feels like a fuckin' hour. Mercy me...

What if you combine the first mic with individual mics for HH, Sd, BD, Toms and OH.... that might sound hot 🤔

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dr strangelove

what mic is he using on the single microphone part?

Probably the best drum mic setup i ve found! Congrats!!!

absolute home-run video. i'm a producer/mix engineer who sometimes records, so having a quick-reference that gives me a place to start from is huge!

dsbm - 1 mic - recording drums in another room

That excitement and depth wasn’t worth the Neumann price tag.

Did anyone else think the music in the beginning sound like Wii sports music? Or was that just me?

Even if you have good beaters and heads, your inner kick micd will sound like a basketball on a gym floor or a kickball landing on asfault

How do you check phase when recording to tape apart from having a fucking oscilloscope like steve albini

When you say check phase, what are you listening for (and why does it happen) and how do you fix it?

Very interesting vid, any ideas or suggestions on how to get a good drum sound for live use with 3 mics, I have a sm57, c1000 condenser and a beta 91a mounted on a Kelley shu for that good oul basket ball sound …..!

great video well made !

tom kenny

Fantastic video. No extra chatter. Just straight up teaching and great info. Perfect.

Can all these same techniques be applied for micing for live performance?

He looks just like Tom Kenny

What does he mean when he says “check phase” ?

Love this stuff - I got a lot done with one stereo mic and have over thirty videos showing the process if anyone is interested.

Personally am a fan of the 2 mic setup. To my ear, it sounds most natural to mesh with a traditional "in-room" rhythm section; late '60s.

Can anyone please tell me how to “check phase”? Is there a good tutorial anywhere?

Very nice video and well explained, but of course you cannot compare a home studio with 100$ mics vs a professional recording studio with a 2000$ drum set and 600$ microphones in a well treated acoustic room, with good preamps etc. I don't have a 600$ condenser omnidirectional mic like the 414 to get the same sound.

Great video I actually have all my toms mic'd up and don't believe I really need all those to get a good drum sound This would eliminate 4 mics. I'm liking the 5 mic setup My question is besides having my stereo overheads equidistant from the snare, do they also need to be equidistant from the bass drum? Also the placement of the room mic behind kit. I would need to place it behind my right shoulder right up against the wall. Is this ideal or should I just experiment with this? I like to have a shield in front of kit as this isolates bleed very well from other instruments Its in a small basement room Room is treated pretty well with a cloud above kit so my mics are about 4' above snare just below cloud Please any advice would be appreciated Thanks!

Why is this video Unlisted ??????????

To check phase is it ok to just have the drummer hit the snare once at the beginning of the take and lining up the tracks in the daw using this as reference?

Uh… how do you “check phase”?

@reverb what mic is he using on the one mic technique?

I wouldn't do a room with a condenser, room mic is probably the most useless especially for people who can only afford 5 mics because they won't have a good sounding room anyways. I would also get 2 SM57 for kick snare and I would get the Behringer c2 for overhead. 4 mics is enough, heck if you want more start with snare bottom then floor tom.

That crash cymbals hurts no matter how many mics

everyone says to check phase, I feel like I'm ear blind to phase issues and thats why my mixes sound like shit lol