They will care instead that it has energy, excitement, and it moves them musically. They won’t know or care that you didn’t record it in a professional studio with 20 microphones. The big idea here is, even though we tend to think that a perfect sample will sound more professional in the mix, the truth is your average listener (who will ultimately be the judge of how good your mix is) will likely “connect” with and jive to the feel of a real drum kit more. Granted it will be a mono drum sound and you can’t fix many timing issues after the fact, but man it can sound great. The trick is to get a balanced and punchy sound of course, but that’s not nearly as hard as you might think.ĭid you know that you can get a quality drum sound using only one microphone? Yep, even if all you have is a simple $100 studio microphone you can capture an entire kit and add life to your mix.
It’s hard to measure, but the intangible feel, vibe, and energy that is created in real life gives so much validity and nuance to your recordings. Plain and simple, a decent recording of a real drummer playing a real drum kit can do WAY more for your mix than a perfectly polished virtual drummer can do. But if fear of not getting a great “real drums” sound is what’s holding you back, then we need to address something. If you don’t have access to anyone who can play drums, then using “fake drums” (as I will call it here in this article) is really your best bet. So you turn to loops, virtual drummers like Strike or EZ Drummer, or simply banging out beats on your keyboard controller. Even the top pros spend way more time on drums than almost anything else because it’s such a complex instrument to record and mix well, and the payoff of a great drum sound is worth the effort.īut many of you either don’t have a drumset, drummer, or the confidence to record one. No matter how great the rest of your tracks sound, if your drums sound weak or amateur, your entire mix will sound weak and amateur. But let’s take a moment today to talk about drums. Chances are you play one or two instruments (guitar, keys, vocals, etc) and then you fill in your arrangements with virtual instruments. Many of you have small but capable home studios where you write, record, and mix everything yourself.
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