How To Record Big Sounding Drums - My Secrets Revealed

How To Record Big Sounding Drums - My Secrets Revealed
Want huge, professional drum sounds in your home studio? In this video, I break down my exact process for recording big-sounding drums—right in my living room.
This is an edited version of my 6-hour livestream, where I showed the entire process in real-time. If you're serious about improving your drum recordings, you won’t want to miss this!

In this video, you’ll learn:
✅ The best mic placements
✅ The exact microphones and gear I use in my home studio
✅ How to get huge, punchy drum tones even in a non-traditional space

Thanks to @daveanthony2577 for taking the timer to help me with this video

0:00 - Intro
2:12 - Kick drum mics
12:05 - Snare drum mics
19:07 - Dampening drums
22:03 - Tuning
30:24 - Micing the Toms
32:16 - Overhead mic placement
35:30 - My favorite High Hat mic
38:00 - Micing the Ride Cymbal
40:35 - Room mics
41:26 - Mono room mic that turned into a front of kit mic
46:33 - LoFi mic
48:12 - Listening to all the mics together - mixing and balancing
53:09 - Adding a Cross Stick mic
54:58 - The gear that I'm using
57:34 - Switching snare drums
1:00:20 - Messing with the room mics
1:04:37 - Finally...recording

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