Drum Recording

The drums were recorded using a fairly minimal setup, a single kick drum microphone, 2 snare mics, one on the top and one on the bottom and then a pair of overhead microphone to pick up the overall kit. This microphone setup is similar to that used in Jazz and Funk recordings, allowing recordings to be made in the style of those sampled by drum and bass producers (the recordings were made at 130 and 140 bpm to be as true to Jazz and Funk recordings as possible) (Huber and Runstein, 2018). A single microphone technique was also used but the recordings weren’t as high quality as the 5 microphone setup due to a lot of ringing being picked up from the tom drums so they were abandoned. There were also Hi hat and Ride microphones that were unused as they did not fit within the style of recording.