Studio Session 004 Drums

Date: 21/03/16
Time: 08:45 16:45
Musician: Lewis Dolan / Claudio Benjamin
Transport VW Golf GTI
Location
City College East (CCE) Campus
City College Brighton & Hove
Wilson Avenue
Brighton
East Sussex
BN2 5PB
Equipment List
Booked Out from CCE:

15x XLR
2x Beyer Dynamic DT 100/150 Headphones
1x Neumann TLM103 Guitar Room Mic
2x sE4400a Guitar Spot Mics
2x AKG C414 Drum Overheads
1x Audio-Technica ATM63HE Snare/Kick
1x SM57 Snare
1x Beyerdynamic M160 Drum Room Mic
1x Beyerdynamic M201N Snare
1x Beyerdynamic M88 Kick
2x Sennheiser MD421-II Toms
1x Electrovoice RE-20 Kick
1x D112 - Kick

Lewis's Transported Equipment:

Drums - Mapex

Session Focus

After taking onboard feedback given from classroom peers / project mentor and other
musically inclined friends, the main focus of this session will be the drums (in
particular the kick and snare drum).

To begin with the snare and kick drum will be tuned and tightened in order to clean
the attack and decay hits when hit. The snare needs to contain less rattle and the kick
drum less resonance on the tail end. Through running the kick and snare channels
through a gating rack and compressor/preamp, with hardware EQ'ing, these two

drum elements should be more pronounced in the mix and separate each individual
part.

Rather than just record the drummer playing along to a pre-existing drum pattern
with all the kit elements, the kick and snare will be recorded first, before over-dubbing
the hats, ride crash and tom parts.

Mic Setup
Drums - Glyn John setup
Reference Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QMA2WGvtmQ MJ Cole Crazy Love (Album

Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7bwtBszSeo - MJ Cole Crazy Love (Live Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02KRAshCG0w MJ Cole Sincere (Album Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v31gcwTOoU - MJ Cole Sincere (Live Version)
Drum loop taken from 'Ed Case - Friends Like These Feat Saffron' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMbcYxUeusk
D Base - Base Theory

Special Notes

Take Photos!!!
Remember USB to save recordings
Notepad to record any ideas/useful information