If, however, the drum overhead tracks are not balanced, there are If your snare sounds like it is coming from yourĬomputer monitor, the snare and overheads are balanced, and we can move on Studio setups that I have seen the computer monitor is dead center between The overheads, does the snare sit in the center of your mix? In most home Is the snare drum centered in the stereo image? The right track right and left track left for drummers’ view. Mix your drums as audience perspective or drummer’s perspective. Produce a balanced sound of the whole drum kit. Tracks in your mix and listen to the snare. Overhead recording and a right-side overhead recording. Most likely you will have a stereo pair of tracks with a left side Understanding the way that these phase issues occur is fundamental to identifying and fixing them. Then, phase issues can be fixed by systematically checking one microphone after another, and flipping the phase when appropriate.įixing phase issues in overheads, and other drum microphones can take your ‘just ok’ drum sound to another level. So how do I fix phase problems in a drum overhead mixing session? First, it is necessary to identify if you have phase issues at all. The biggest was overhead microphone placement, and the phase issues that I had caused. Even though I had read up a little on what to do, excitement and impatience overtook the process, and as a result, I made more than a few mistakes. When I recorded my drum kit for the first time, I didn’t know what I was doing.
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