Making a Pro Drum Sound with ONE MICROPHONE #audioengineer #musicproduction #drums

[bleachpuppet]

Dave Grohl and Ben thatcher did something similar to this on the queens of the Stone Age record and royal blood records respectively where they recorded takes of just drums and just cymbals for maximum mixing control and separation

[jeffstienstra]

This may work for some genres, but it seems the amount of time fiddling in post would easily overrun the cost of a 2nd microphone to get a recording in 1 take with a natural drum performance.

[nathanialfennen]

Learned recently that a lot of the drums Primus’ Brown Album were recorded with a single mic in a bathroom. Sounds awful out of context text but it SO works in the mix. Really makes it feel brown, naamsayin

[simplyshorts]

Didn't know Simon Pegg is also playing the drums

[DetectiveStablerSVU]

That's actually exactly how I pictured it. What can I say.... I'm a genius

[Euan-gbig]

I play the Drums and listen to your song without seeing this video.And I didn't know you did that.

[mostok]

Or use one mic for a live take like the Flaming Lips and sound awesome

[TheIllynow]

Not compromising anything at all, except a normal drum performance

[AudioHaze]

IMPORTANT NOTE: The knee mic STAYS in the recording, don't remove it later. That's what gives the natural feel of a drummer.

You could either quantize the knee mic to the grid, or manually align the recorded samples to the hits in the drum mic, both give different vibes.

[Sarsour_]

When you finish building/lining up the samples, do you mute the original take? or do you use it in the drum mix?

[alexiscabreramusic]

Hahaha you can record an entire drum kit with no mic then… just samples😅

[ericfast]

That might be the biggest rip off of Radiohead ever… but hey, I guess that’s not why I’m here

[wheel]

Why go through all this effort? To get a cleaner sound? Just learn to love the bleed. This is so much hassle for something which could be done in one take