Recording Drum Kit

This it the drum kit that we recorded by using close mic technique. Placed the AKG D112 just outside the kick, MD421 for the beater and also placed Neumann 1m apart from the kick to capture the whole kit. For the snare used SM57 pointed to the center of the snare and MD421 pointed to the center of the Tom. Placed two AKG414B as stereo space pair for overhead. Some how all the mic from the kick, snare and tom did not sound good for me, as you can hear the clip above. Without room mic they all sound really weak and not really punchy. I noticed that the room mic really made different here. Also need to do a lot work to fix this when we mix them down.