There are many ways to record a drum kit, but one thing that baffles me is how many engineers skip over some of the simplest, most effective techniques. They rush to set up 10 or more microphones in front of the kit, many times without even listening to the drummer and the kit.
We can look at the drum kit as one instrument made up of several parts or we can look at it as the individual parts themselves. I don't know many engineers that would mic an upright bass player with a splattering of tracks, even though the surface area of the instrument is quiet large and there are many different perspectives on the sound of the instrument depending on where you stand. So, why must we always use a bunch of tracks to record a drum kit? Read further >
