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Live Sound tips - Drum sound

Joe Vegna

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I go in depth on drum sound in live music. Here you will learn my philosophy on micing, phasing and compressing. I show real world examples with rock, pop and jazz drums.
AND ... you will get the final answer on in you should flip the polarity or not.

Rock drums from 9 Locks Down https://open.spotify.com/artist/7Gl3V...
Pop drums from Stonemountain Orchestra https://open.spotify.com/artist/7fnvw...

Download the session file from this episode + presets and templates from my website
https://joevegna.com/lv1/

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Plugins from Waves: waves.alzt.net/B0M2dW

Microphones used in examples:
Rock drums
Kick - Lewitt DTP 640 rex
Snare top - Shure sm57
Snare bottom - Lewitt DTP 340 TT
HH - Röde NT5
Toms - Lewitt DTP 340 TT
OH - Lewitt LCT 550 & 340

Pop drums
Kick - Audix D6
Snare top - Shure sm57
Snare bottom - beyerdynamic TG D58
HH - Slate - Slate Digital ML-2
Toms - Lewitt DTP 340 TT
OH - Lewitt LCT 550 & 340

Jazz drums
Kick - Shure B52
Snare - Shure sm57
OH - Shure KSM 137

Let me know if you have any questions.
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00:00 Intro
00:25 Microphones
04:56 Room sound
06:15 Basic drum sound
19:37 Rock sound
28:17 Pop sound
36:47 Jazz sound

18 Comments

@michaelmikejameswillliams8373 7 months ago

Thankyou Joe for sharing this with us. Much appreciated.

@brbstudios 2 years ago

Great video Joe! I really appreciate you showing multiple genres. Can’t wait to try this out.

@Chaos-Dynamics 1 year ago

Great video, subscribed 🤟🏼🙂

@ledgersolutionsuk 2 years ago

Joe always knows what I wanna learn about!

@Nayr_Zeus 2 years ago

Yo!!! This is top notch thanks Joe!

@civokajots 1 year ago

this was greatly explained for someone who may not know how to mic their instruments. very abstract. but effective. but the overarching principle was there. hell yeah!

@Offbed 2 years ago

🔥🔥🔥🔥

@AlexanderMarsh-we6ng 2 years ago

Really love your explanation and how you deliver your lessons, thanks alot. Loved the vocal sound you created on "Embers"

@MrNicknayme 1 year ago

Sounds great

@hansikathimira 2 years ago

Great stuff mate! 🙌

@57Techboy 2 years ago

Awesome, it was my birthday present just before Christmas. I’m trying to set up a template to prepare for my next live show coming up shortly.

@mdiazaudio 2 years ago

Excellent video Joe, since you started making your videos I have changed the way I work with the LV1 console, thank you very much!

@57Techboy 2 years ago (edited)

Great tips and tricks, looking forward to implementing some of these goodies soon. But I'll be using Super Rack Performer with a Mackie DL32R via Dante. Fingers crossed.

@besimbaftiu 1 year ago

I think it is better to use a Torque plugin the focus has to be on fundamental tom sound in the part one, cuz it will tune th bleed of the snare too in that range. Btw, the jazz and funk part were amazing

@john8451 2 years ago (edited)

Interesting video but not sure how much of this is necessary.

I’ve been mixing live audio for 36 years and my drum mix sounds pretty much like your ‘processed’ mix with just gates, eq and mic placement. Even mic choice isn’t terribly important as long as you have fairly decent standard mics (91, 52, 57, 904s and reasonably good pencil condensers in good condition for high hats and overheads)

Usually the system, room, atmospherics and audience noise will render most of the subtleties inaudible to most ears. (agree about polarity flip on snare bottom though👍)

@MrMark9201 1 year ago

Hi. Where do you route the output of your drum verb? The drum bus? cheers

@thiagovendrasco26 2 years ago

Hello, thank you for your content! I've been watching and it's been great!

I would like to know where I can get the Bricasti IRs that you use. Is there any store that has this available?

Big hug.