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Chris Brush Drums - Creative Custom Remote Session Drum TracksChris Brush is a Nashville-based session drummer bringing his experience to clients in the form of creative, custom, passionate, high-quality remote drum tracks

Signal Chain Hierarchy - Part 4: A to D Converters

RecordingApril 14, 2013

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Signal Chain Hierarchy – Part 4: A to D Converters

For the last three weeks, I have been sharing my opinions on the recording signal chain and where each piece ranks in terms of a hierarchy of importance. We talked about the source you record being the most important – you can’t record what you don’t have to begin with.…

Signal Chain Hierarchy - Part 2: The Microphone

RecordingMarch 31, 2013

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Signal Chain Hierarchy – Part 2: Drumkit Microphones

Last week in my series on the recording chain hierarchy, we talked about the source being paramount. If you don’t have a good sounding source, you won’t have a good sounding recording. Next in the hierarchy, in my opinion, is the microphone. The microphone is like the ear through which…

Chris Brush - learning how to balance the hi hat

TechniqueMarch 15, 2013

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Hi Hat Balance

How a drummer hits the hi hats is important under the scrutiny of the red recording light. A lot of modern players play the hi hats too hard. This simple little video hopefully demonstrates the difference between bashing the hi hat and balancing the hi hat within the kit —…

Overhead Miking – Stereo Balancing of Cymbals, Drums and Room

RecordingFebruary 21, 2013

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Drum Overhead Miking – Stereo Balancing of Cymbals, Drums and Room

Ah, overhead miking. We have come to the last week in this series of mic experiments. In the past few weeks, we’ve explored different microphone sounds on the snare, kick, toms, and hi hat. Now, we sample some different ways to capture the whole kit – overheads.

Tom Miking - Chris Brush Drums

RecordingFebruary 7, 2013

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Tom Miking – Catching The Slap, Tone, and Sustain

The last couple of weeks, we’ve taken a look at the sounds of different mics on parts of the kit (snare and kick, respectively) with the goal of learning how certain mics highlight or detract from the sonic qualities of various drums. Now it’s time to do the same with…

Snare Drum Miking - Chris Brush Drums

Recording, TechniqueJanuary 25, 2013

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Snare Drum Miking – A Comparison of Sounds

This entry is titled “Snare Drum Miking” but is not about how to mic a snare. That’s easy enough to do. Also, this entry isn’t about shooting out between mics to find out which is “best” for a snare drum. All mics both add something to and subtract something from…