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As stated in my pitch and plan, I didn’t want a continuous beat playing throughout but more rhythmic fills played at points in the track. I reached out to a former student of the college who agreed to play drums for me and provided him with a copy of the track so far to listen to. I gave him a few directions but ultimately left creative control up to him. He decided to not play with any cymbals as he was going to record these separately as flourishes throughout the track. Please see the table below for mic choices and the reasoning why:
For recording the cymbal flourishes, I used the left and right overhead mics for the reasons stated above. I used both of these so that I could pan the cymbals left and right. The drummer used beaters to perform cymbal rolls while also tapping the cymbals and their stands with the wooden side for a variety of sounds and tones.
During the recording process, I encountered a problem with the headphone mix as the drummer couldn’t hear anything through his headphones. I used my troubleshooting skills by first checking that the bus wasn’t on mute. When that wasn’t the case, I then checked the cable and seen that it was fine. I also tried him on the other bus and the same issue happened. I then discovered that some headphones had accidentally been plugged into the wrong input in the control room. Once this had been removed the headphone worked fine. Even though the issue was simple, I felt it was necessary and beneficial to go through the process of problem solving as these are issues that could happen in a working studio and it’s useful to know how to solve them.
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