Recording Handbook - Hol.gr

everything at once and not making any compression decisions that you
can't undo. Disadvantages of this include losing a certain amount
noise supression gained by being able to record the compressed signal
hotter overall. If you don't have enough compression to process
everything at mixdown that you want to compress, you'll have to
compress some things when recording.
Q3.6 How do I improve my drum sound?
mcknight@pire.org (Scott McKnight) writes:
I tend to rely on the overheads for the basic sound of the drums and
use the individual drum mics to control the mix a little better and to
be able to put effects on individual drums.
You might also try improving the drum sound by cutting out a
generation, i.e., instead of recording to multiple tracks and mixing
down to 2, try mixing straight to 2 or 3 tracks while recording. I
like to record 3: drums left, drums right and snare. It takes a
little more time to experiment getting the mix right (especially if
you have no control room or engineer) but IMHO it's worth it.
Most articles I've read recommend using as few mics as you can get
away with. This means that everything may not get close mic'd but
I've always preferred the sound of drums mic'd from a few feet away
anyway.
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