How to record drums/techniques (drum recording)

The Drum is one of the most complicated instruments to be recorded, getting a great drum recording results not only from the quality of the drummer and engineer, but also affected the quality of the tools used (drums, mic, cables, etc.) and position the microphone technique. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of recording the drums in the studio.

Equipment
Drum Set Microphone Pre amps and other recording equipment

Tunning
To get a good drum recording results, you need to tune of the drum is concerned. Tune the drum affects audio quality, and if it's a good already then tune the editing and mixing will be easier.

Kick, Snare, Tom and the table generally has 2 skins (up & underside)
1. the Batter head skin (top): effect on "attack" and initial pitch
2. The Resonant head skin (bottom): effect on "overall pitch" and sustain.

Each drum kit (Kick, Snare, and Toms) has a size of & material of different material, and that means each size & material has a resonant tone sound different. There are several Snare which has resonant sound with a wide, meaning badwidth Snare can be ditune from low to high pitch tone and still produce a Tone that is perfect. Preferably tunnning Snare according the basic tone of the songs, and tunning of tom and the table follows the intervalnya tone.

Recording A Kick
Bass guitar and kick drum is what keeps the flow of the song, and the Kick drum is the heart of the rhythm section of your song. To record a kick, you can use microphone such as the Sennheiser E602, SM57, D112, Neumann KM184 RDA or R92 (ribbon microphone) so it's up to the tastes and the budget that you have to buy a microphone. Start placing the microphone in the kick drum and listen. How is sound produced? If the boomy (too low and unclear), place the microphone closer to the beater for sound clarity, if it sounds produced are too tight, then sliding back up to get sound as desired. Do experiments to test the mic position, and there is no right or wrong way to do it.

Tips:
Use 2 microphones (in &). Microphone placed inside to get the "attack" of the batter well. The Microphone was placed outside to get sound sub low.But for the use of 2 microphone note also about the Phase (the correlation between these two microphone). When getting a position felt good (In-PHASE), trying to do check PHASE, by means of reversing the phase of one of the microphone. If his voice is so strange/weak/low his ilang (Out-of-Phase), the mean mic position before his behind phase is correct.

Recording The Snare
Get a good snare drum sound is very easy if the voice is indeed nice snare, tune, according to the character of the song and played by drummers. For the record, you can use the Snare microphone Shure Beta 57A, Josephson C42, Heil PR20, BeyerDynamic M201, and others. You can use the 2 microphone for recording the snare, 1 are placed above and below the 1 again.

Tips:
3. use the mic (2 above and 1 below). For 1 mic over to get the "attack" & "snappy" and 1 mic again to get the "Body". Both the mic we tie with duct tape with the same position and is placed under the hihat with 45derajat slope overlooking the Center SNARE (opposite of hi-hat) to minimize leakage/spil of the hi-hat.As for the bottom snare you can use a dynamic microphone for sound rattle recorded not too sharp and more natural than using a condenser microphone. And don't forget the reverse phase to snare bottom because the direction opposite to the microphones to capture him on top.

Recording Toms
In most drum kits, you will find a wide number of sets of tom, all of different tonal range, usually a drummer would have a high tonal, midle of tom, and tom lowh. Sometimes you will find a more diverse drummer utilizes some of tom's all tuned differently. But in the studio recording is usually enough to use 2 tom and 1 floor only. Microphone that is used is not much different with the snare microphone.

Tips:
You can also use the 2 microphone for 1 tom, but also already cukupPosisikan 1 microphone microphone 45 degrees leading to the middle of the skin

Recording Hi-Hat Ride &
You may not put a microphone on the Hi-Hat or the Ride, and voice recorded through overhead. But we recommend using chanel herself or fixed record it on an individual basis for Hi-Hat and Ride (with separate overhead), it will also simplify the process of mixing. The first thing to record hi-hat hi-hat was the election itself, the hi-hat is very vulnerable her voice recorded sounds cheap and very sharp-voiced as cans. Use the hi-hat and percymbalan are nice, thick character and not too sharp.

Tips:
Use the microphone to his transient ribbon can be maintained properly.Position the microphone approximately 20 cm above the hi-hat. The goal is to reduce the leakage of spil/snare that is hindered by the hi-hat.Height of the microphone was set up so that the overall sound of the hi-hat dapet recorded properly.

Recording Overhead
Mic positioning for overhead is the most important thing to get a great sound overhead, in addition it will also be very influential to the overall sound of drums. The main purpose of the Overhead? This is to take the entire sound piece instruments (but more focuses on the cymbals) and to unite all other sound so that the mic's individual everything sounds as 1 unit. You can use the AEA R84 microphone, RDA, Oktava MC012 C414, Marshal MXL series and so on.

Tips:
Initial placement starts with the following basic techniques? 3-to-1 Rule, namely the basic positions of? the placement where the distance between the 2 microphone mic 1 mic 2 with 3 x shall be from the distance between one of the mic to the instrument (drums). This Formula was created to avoid the problem of Phase/comb filter.Pan microphone 1 full right and mic 2 full left (dead Left and Dead Right) Check Phase reverse phase, by means of one of the mic. If sounds are heard to be heavy to left/right (out of phase), then it means the previous position is correct.Rooms/room, which will either acostic very influential on tracks overhead.After the steps above drum recording, start to record. You'll usually need the effect Gate and Compressor for editing after tracking is complete.

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Tips for recording/time recording vocalist

For those who want to be singers or vocalis who recorded vocals, maybe this article cucok banget buat adds science take you guys in vocal/recording vocals. Some things to look for in take vocal:
1. the articulation of a Word
Singing is an expression that must be delivered. So sing as we speak or speechless. Then the song will be able to capture the listener with clear what we have said. If we're talking is not clear, then the person we're talking to are saying "sorry, you just now say what?" well that will affect all of the results take vocal. So the point is should be clear articulation of our words, if we're already singing with clear as one talks, then there is also conscious that we are already singing with solid or "tight".

2. Select Microphone
Indeed not many recording studio which provides a choice of microphone. But when you get to the studio lot, mic choice facilities take advantage of the facilities and look for the mic that fits the character/color your vocals. Usually required for vocal polar Cardiod pattern (Unidirectional Mic), which sounds just caught from the direction of the front and somewhat reduced when you sing from the side of the mic.

3. Mic Distance
Take vocal or recording the vocals are nice is a 1 inch of hands between the mic and our lips or 15-30 centimeters, because when we are singing near the mic, it will give rise to sound "beb" (flare) or "Fizz" (hizzing) which is too excessive. There is indeed a plugin that tackling the problem the fizz of "De-Esser" or hardware pop-filter for flare (plossive), it would be nice if it was just us tanggulangi from the time of the recording. Sebagus-bagusnya recording tool or plugin, can't sealami the singing natural, so start learning to sing with a pretty good distance from now on.

4. Tone Vocal
Many say if today's tape, everything can be corrected with sophisticated equipment, it does very well indeed. But one thing that can not be identified between human and equipment namely "vocal tone" or our character. May be low volume vocal manipulation with a variety of equipment compressor so that the sounds become hard. But surely it's just loud vocals but not powered (powerless). For among the senior musician or a reliable audio expert, surely they can tell which tone and original results manipulation tool. For that, make the ' tone ' of your vocals.

5. Compressor
Functions of the compressor is to compresses an unused vocal that is too large dinamikanya. Well, actually the man himself had a compressor. Cried but not peak, i.e. by way of withholding power from the diaphragm to the strains the vocal cords, but does not reduce the tone/tone vocal us. That is what is called a "level control", in need of engineering as well as exercises is enough to be able to master it properly.

6. Soul/Soul (Sense)

"... a vocalist also must learn how to" manipulate "or playing a different role in each of the songs that will be sung ..."

I actually all this deals among the explanations one with other explanations. Soul/taste/feel it's very important for a singer. Because it is used to convey what the content of the lyrics we sing. In my opinion, it's the same as actors vocalist's role in the soap opera or drama, why? Because the perpetrators were usually able to play role of emotion/mood that fits the role that will be diperankannya. Well, it's a vocalist also must learn how to "manipulate" or playing a different role in each of the songs that will be sung ...Although he just express them with sound doang. Well here is the layout of the importance of the dynamic of singing, because it can play the emotions of the listener. Although indeed the singer is no longer in a condition to be singing sad but sadly. If it already can you understand and jiwai, guaranteed the sound you would sound better.

7. Review
After the take over, try to listen to the vocals again without the need for plug ins or sticking to the effect track (flat). Are you already a maximum as discussed from the point 1-6? Do you already feel comfortable with the results of the vote during the singing, whether already fill/soul/it's in every word you said? Try to repeat it back if it has not been corrected, we recommend to obtain maximum results.

Indeed sing it depending on the mood or feeling of the heart, so keep the mood that's fine as long as you do the recording of vocals. Try again tomorrow, if the mood was not there. Have fun and be fun, I suggest you do the recording, do not tense and do not hesitate to ask for the opinion of the operator, producer or studio people when we record.

8. Tips:
Sing with the articulation of clear!Select mic that strengthens the character of your voice!Adjust the distance the mic with your mouth properly!Maximize the ' Tone ' of the Vocals in yourself, not with the help of a tool!Keep the dynamics of the sound or use ' compressor ' naturally exists in you!Show emotion when singing the song needs!Review the results of your original voice recordings!

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How do I record/technical bass (bass recording)

Bass guitar Instrument fills the rhythm section of a song, the bass is very important to all the genre of song, good pop, punk, rock, jazz, funk and so on. Usually there is a supposition? A good bass Sound is mated (nyatu) with the kick drum? How to make it? Or each song genre usually feature characters individually, such as bass sound is round, thick, and others, would be created when mixing?. The Sound will be easy to come by if it starts with a good bass recording techniques.

To get a good bass sound and as dibutukan, the most important thing is the quality of the bass itself, because the resulting sound will come from the original character of the bass, so try on bass in a healthy state, minimal use of the string/new strings (not fals/jarring) and if the active bass should use new batteries. The second thing that equally important is the quality of musicians who play the bass player/, the sound is nice though will not produce a good quality with a bad game. Next is the technique of recording the bass is good, in general there are 3 techniques how to record bass, namely: in the (direct/indirect), using a microphone (todong AMPS), or a combination of both.

Direct Injection or Direct Input
Direct Injection or often abbreviated with direct plug in is a technique, or in the recording was recorded directly. This technique means that the cable is plugged in is your bass connected with in the box (the box) and in the box connected to the soundcard. This is highly recommended if you're a passive type of bass, and also used in box, you can also replace it with a pre-amp before entry to the soundcard.

The advantage of Recording direct is you will get a clean sound from your bass record. And as long as the quality is good and the bass games musisinya is also good, you will get the recorded sound can be easily edited and dicompress, in equalizing later.

Recording using the Microphone (todong)
Most engineers prefer the bass amplifier using the recording instead of using it on. Recording using the microphone commonly known by the term todong mic, how the plug to amplifier bass bass (such as during exercise/gig), and then in front of the amplifier cabinet placed microphone (usually using a dynamic microphone), and then the microphone is connected to the soundcard. The sound from the microphone that will be recorded into DAW.

The advantage of the technique is to get a todong sound that is already compressed naturally by the amplifier speakers, in addition to not only get the bass character, but the character of the amplifier, which is obviously the characters will be hard to come by using virtual amplifier in the DAW.

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