Drum Session

I’m in shock, I didn’t think we would get all 9 songs recorded today, but Jordan pulled it off. We just got a huge chunk of the album done, we now just have a few more tiny extra overdubs to do and then on to the mixing.

Click picture above to see a couple pictures from the session

Jordan used his Pearl kit, and he rented the biggest snare he could find, a Vinnie Paul model, because he only owns piccolo snares. Awesome snare. We did everything with a single pair of Vic Firth TW11 tala wands. Normal drumsticks are just way too loud and since it’s an acoustic album these worked out perfect. We used Evans E-Rings on the low and floor toms and moon gels on the high tom for dampening.

Mics:
Overheads – SE3 stereo pair
Room – M-Audio Sputnik tube
Kick – Shure PG52
Snare – AKG D5 [top], Audio Technica AT2021 [bottom]
High tom – AKG D22 (moved to low tom when needed)
Floor tom – Audio Technica AT2020

Everything went through Soundcraft Spirit M4 preamps and into an M-Audio Projectmix I/O. Recorded in Pro Tools of course.

If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got 6 hours of drums across 20 playlists to organize.

Also Interesting:

1. Archiving a Pro Tools Session
2. From the PSW REP forums: Anatomy of a session in May