To research studio recording I have done some physical research by actually practising setting up a drum kit for a live recording, we did this by sending the XLRS through the snake which was going to the mixing desk in the control room.
Microphone positioning
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To mic up the drum kit we used, two condenser overheads which we would pan left and right in the mix, Top snare and bottom snare that we would later phase flip, kick which we used a D112 for and high mid and floor toms which were 3 dynamic mics. the overheads are placed the same distance apart from the snare because we measured them, and we placed everything else where it was still easy for the drummer to use the kit without hitting them, we also made sure they they just picked up the sound that they were recording the best.
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Here above is the order that we ran everything to the desk in, we wrote there down on the whiteboard so that it was convenient for us and so that nobody forgot what was what.
Microphone choice
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or top and bottom snare we used two sure sm57s, for the overheads and toms in the end we just used an AKG mic set but for the kick drum we used a D112 overall I think the choice of these mics was a good idea as they sounded pretty good when we did some sample recordings.
Using a mixing desk and DAWS
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We recorded the drum kit through a digital audio workstation called Logic Pro X. We told the drummer hit everything individually while we set the gain so that it wasn’t clipping in the mix.