Recording Drums | 5 Easy Hacks to Record Drums Without Sampling

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Today we are going to talk about what to do during the session with five common issues with recording drums and how to easily overcome it. Your going to learn some of the Basics 101 of how certain sounds are achieved by the drummer in the first place, instead of using a drum sampling plug in during mixing.

This episode will help you in three main areas of recording drums:

Coach drummers on how to produce sounds we want
Make changes to the kit to save time in mixing
Give us a better result with less effort

And these five hacks are about the:

The fullness of the snare drum
The aggressiveness of the kick drum
The sustain of the cymbals
The attack of the toms
The kick-snare-hat relationship

Many don’t realize to fix the problem at the source and it makes the task of recording drums without sampling a very difficult one. They think that recording drums without sampling is too hard, and will take up too much time. So they reach for drum sampling to help patch the problem.

Sampling plugins sound decent, but it takes some practice to learn how to make it sound natural. Using these plugins is a skill that has to be learned and it takes time to get the results that are advertised to us.

If you like to work with drum sampling plugins, then I hold nothing against your methods. A happy client is all the validation you need.

But if you really love the art of recording – the joy of getting sounds and preserving the music. Doesn’t it make the hard work worth it?

Using drum sampling as a short cut for good sounds will still take time and effort and you’ll get results that are good enough for the average ear. However recording drums without sampling will get you amazing drum tracks, that even the experienced ear and fellow audio engineers will be impressed with.

My hope for you is that using these techniques for recording drums without sampling, you can get amazing results using real drums, real drums, and real drummers.
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