From the course: Drum Mixing: Techniques

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Going further with ambience and balance

Going further with ambience and balance

From the course: Drum Mixing: Techniques

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Going further with ambience and balance

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(drum track music) - So, what I was just working on was getting some ambiance around the kit. We got all those those tight mics sounding really good, but it sounds weird, because you can't just have a mic on the drum and expect it to sound like a drum kit. So, we add some air around it, we had these far room mics from tracking, a pair of M 50s are about 17 feet from the drums. Simple, no real compression on those, just to add a little air. You feel it in the top of the speakers, you feel it on the outside of the speakers, and it gives a good impression that the kit is in our space. And, then we have these crushed RCA 44s, some ribbon mics that were about 10 feet from the drum kit or so. And, you know, they're old RCAs, they don't quite match, so the bottom end is different in each of them, the mid range is a little different, but that's part of the character of the sound. I don't mind that so much. If I had a matched pair, yeah that'd be great, but this way it adds some interesting…

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