Studio session duo

I used this lesson to lay down my first drum track. I choose a range of mic's for different purposes. I double mic' the snare top and bottom with sm57's, this allows you to pick up a range of sound, the top mic picking up the orignal hit of the snare, and the bottom mic picking up the ringing of the snare, which i feel eventually a fatter sound. The kick drum was mic'd with a D112 as this is a great mic for picking up low frequencies, we placed this deep into the drum to pick up the original click of the bass drum, then eventually i will double this up with samples to give a large full sound. I used two groove tubes as overheads as i feel these give a far brighter sound than the c100 condensor mic's. I then used an akg 414 as a room mic to get an overall sound for the room to pick up a natural reverb which will thicken the sound and give the mix a 3-d effect.



We routed these through as followed :
kick - input1
snare top- input 2
snare bottom - input 3
high hat - input 4
overhead 1- input 5
overhead 2-input 6
room mic - input 7

After everything was mic'd up and ready to record Curtis started laying down 8 bar samples which will be arranged and chopped up to create the drum tracks.

I want the drums electronic so i believe i will just have these samples faintly in the background to give a bigger sound and capture the live kit effect and then use the drum n bass remix sample instrument.