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How to mic up a drum kit

Here I demonstrate how to mike up an acoustic drum kit using four Lewitt microphones. The mikes I use are the Lewitt LCT 140 Air as a matched pair for the overhead mikes, a Lewitt MTP 440 DM for the snare drum and a Lewitt DTP 340 REX for the kick drum. It’s a student Yamaha Stage Custom drum kit and the heads were not the best heads and it was hardly tuned to perfection and it was recorded in a standard living room. In an ideal world to get superior results a decent kit such as a German-Made Sonor with good heads tuned to perfection would have been better along with a nice large recording studio with appropriate sound treatment. However, I felt the need to replicate a more realistic environment for the home studio musician to give you an idea of the sort of results you can achieve. Regarding the post production work there are hundreds of ways this could have been done with hundreds of plug-ins and outboard gear that would all produce hundreds of different sonic results – this is simply the version I went with for this video and it is neither correct or incorrect, just what I felt was appropriate for this tutorial. I’m a big fan of Lewitt microphones and given their competitive pricing I could not think of better mikes – in the price range – than the Lewitt range. I’m not affiliated with Lewitt, but I feel they are incredibly well built and they do a superb job of recording sounds accurately. I’ll also just mention that I’m an electronic drummer and I typically use a Roland TD-27 (at time of writing) and, thus, recording that is a breeze. Recording an acoustic kit is a different beast, an art form, so it will take time and effort to get right and even more time and effort in post production. Good luck! Lewitt mikes: https://www.lewitt-audio.com