What is your drum setup/micing time like?

[if6was9]

I set one whole day for just setup stuff. For the shit that I do I don't get to experience the luxury of swapping heads/snares etc but it still takes a while to get it to sound what we need it to sound like and fix all the broken shit on the drummer's kit. I highly suggest investing in your own high quality kit. I have a really cheap gretsch kit, but it will pay for itself when a drummer brings his $50 wal-mart kit.

i got a Pearl Export kit for less than 200 euro. It's in perfect nick and I keep it freshly skinned. Sounds better than 80% of the kits guys I record come in with. Having a house kit is awesome. Also means I can have the kit set up and tuned before they come in though I usually do the micing while they're there.

 

[drew_drummer]

We recorded our new album recently. Anyway... Load in at 9am, ready to track at 1:30pm.