Recording Drums

For all drum my recordings I used a technique known as the Glyn Johns technique. Glyn Johns has worked with Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles and Eric Clapton and was credited for “the monstrous John Bonham sounds on all those Zeppelin records” and only used four microphones to do it. This technique requires two spot microphones for the snare drum and bass drum and two condenser microphones used in a stereo set up. One of the condensers is placed to the left of the bass drum and up above the snare drum whilst the other condenser is set up to the right of the floor tom and above t by about 6 inches. Both of these microphones should be the same distance away from the snare drum due to phasing issues and then panned hard left and hard right. I recreated this by using an SM57 on the snare drum, the MB85 on the bass drum, the PG57 as the floor tom room microphone and the NT1A as the left hand microphone. I had to use a dynamic as one of the room microphones due to the fact I only had the one condenser microphone.