Drums, probably one of the most challenging things to record for someone who is inexperienced. This is an excellent resource video, so many thanks for taking the time to make it Glen.

GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!! But seriously, if i may say, an interesting idea for a "how to" video(certainly one i could use) would be: how to fit acoustic instruments(from brass, winds, strings, etc) into a heavy and busy metal mix. Thank you for all you've done and are still doing. Cheers!

A revised Head selection and drum tuning deep-dive should be a mandatory discussion for this series. Cheers.

I've been waiting ever since Total heavy guitar for you to do a radically in depth course on drums, but I never imagined it would be free! Thank you so much Glenn, I'll be sending this to some local fellow engineers so we can all learn something.

Looking forward to this! Thanks for having me Glenn.🤘🤘

I love it when Glen proves my complaints about the sound of modern metal to be valid.

I still need tips on how to move heavy drums. Maybe I should've bought average weight drums.

Seriously, Glen, you got me to get into Audio engineering school and learn a few things and you are still great source of inspiration and learning. I've learned quite a lot from you both as a musician (I actually stopped cupping the mic) and as a beginning engineer. Thank you and keep it up!

Jeez Cameron Fleury, what a monster drummer 🥵🔥🔥

I never realized just how small your drum room actually is. The fact you get the sounds you do out of it blows me away.

Thank you Glenn for all your very useful experience in recording. I just started last year recording my drum covers with 2 mics and I think it's coming along. Your videos are such a great resource!

The best part about this video is the fact that you're showing people what the RAW tracks sound like. You can apply all the effects you'd like but if the raw sound is garbage, then your affected sound is going to sound like louder garbage. Doing this for guitars would be great, too.

Glen, I'm so glad to see that you're a man of culture as well, and have your drum tracks labelled with green and guitars with blue. This is the way. :)

Glenn, you are a champ, helping us out with your experience and guiding us to achieve better results. Trial and error is the best teacher, and its the same with Millionaires, they had to fail multiple times before they learned how to get it right, you chose recording as your challenge and job, maybe you wont become a millionaire, but your advice is priceless! Cheers. Al

This so valuable and you're awesome on camera! Love you dude!

Samples can definitely gloss over the actual drum hits, but at times they can be treated like a fun way to make things more interesting. The experiments we've done with our setup have been really fun, sometimes just using a little sizzle or an extra bit of bass drum or cymbal samples to make a transition more interesting to listen to. I've been using some old concert percussion to sometimes make a "sample" to use for different transitions as well. Triangles too. I feel like it's good to incorporate the thoughts of a triangle player when going for samples, possibly before being the "drum doctor."

Glenn thank you! This is EXACTLY what I asked for. Unprocessed examples. You the man.

Glenn. Love the videos! I'm not a musician, not an engineer, but a consumer of good music. The points you make on the lack of originality involving overdone drum samples and time alignment ring true for the consumers as well. I'll give an example....Bonham...Good Times Bad Times. He's not always on time, not always tight, DEFINITELY not time aligned, and I DEFY ANYONE to sit and listen to it without shaking their ass and tapping their feet! Its fantastic! His body of work would be my example of why substance and emotion and enthusiasm trumps "artificially refined perfection" any day of the week! He goes hard, pulls back, lets things build, and takes you on a ride on every song...complete with occasional fuckups. Keep up the good work, and the keep up the preaching to keep things real!

So, so happy to see this! Thanks Glen

Those drum sounds are killer! Oddly enough, I just revisited your series from years ago just this past week. Thanks for all you do!!!

At last !! The drums recording series ! Mange un char Glenn.

2 things: -you nailed the kick sound to hot for teacher -gitta love the "fuck you glenn" written in the dust on the cymbals

You are too kind to grace us with this mega knowledge

I’m not a drummer, I’m definitely not a recording engineer and know virtually nothing about recording techniques. But I DO remember when my band was in the studio WAY back when, the engineer spent more time mic’ing our drummers kit and getting levels than any other instrument. And like you, he knew what he was doing and it still took him time to do it right. I really dig your videos explaining all the shit you’ve learned throughout your years of recording.

I've gone trough 5 drummers with my band and the current one is just amazing... While I always had a hunch that most of my band's incoherence was due to the drummer, the current one just confirmed it all... He has the right timing, the right velocities between clean and heavy parts and knows when to go ballistic and when to go minimalistic. I record and mix everything myself and somehow a good drummer basically mixes itself :p

I'm just starting out, and this is awesome. The guru is in the house, and the guru is you, my man.

Beautiful Beautiful….what a Great sound!

Glenn, you are a major inspiration for me to continue to try and record real drums. I still suck at it, but I don't want to let the art of recording real drums die.

The drum dial is the best thing I ever used! Huge difference on the drum sound! Really excited for the upcoming videos 🔥

It's great to see this being covered again in greater detail! Since the subject of sample layering was brought up, I'm really looking forward to getting a nuanced look into how to use samples while maintaining the integrity and uniqueness of drummers' performances - augmenting instead of burying or replacing. I've heard of some really creative tricks such as layering in sounds like soccer balls being kicked to add to the 'pumping' of air in a kick drum or layering in shotguns to add a powerful 'crack' to the transients of snare hits. I find stuff like this so much more interesting because of the critical listening that leads people to using creative techniques like these in the first place. This is already shaping up to be a great series and I'm pumped!

I think the main thing to learn here is even with no Processing. The Drums sound great. Getting right at the Source is an absolute must.

Great info as always. Not so fun fact, Peter Criss was diagnosed and had surgery for breast cancer around that same time period.🙀 Even back in the day he never appeared to be a very heavy hitter. 🤘

The Original Series is how I found your Channel. Wow!!! I've been subbed that long.

Yeeeeees! I've been anxiously waiting for this series! FINALLY!! Thanks A LOT, GLEN!

This is brilliant. I don't do much studio work, but so much of this translates to great live sound.

It kind of sounds like the toms are tuned a little bit above the shell/head combo's natural resonance. You can take the heads and rims off and tap the shell and you'll get the fundamental resonance of that shell. If you get close enough to the shells resonance with the head tuning the shit sounds beefy. Nolly has a tom tuning video/guide that explains how to tune the batter and reso head in combination to get a specific pitch that's pretty interesting. idk maybe something to try. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8eTdJqn3seokZs.html

This was super cool!! Absolutely loved the original series and now this is the perfect companion for them. Man, that brother's got some chops on those skins!!🤘🤘🥁

Wish I had seen this a few years ago..!!! You have a killer sound happening there....

You glorious bastard you! It’s about goddamn time Glenn!

Drum Dial is a must. I've been using mine for over 20 years. sure beats the way i tuned in the 80's and early 90's.

Yo my band is starting on its album tomorrow with 6 hours of drum recording. What perfect timing!

Awesome video, great education here, thank you Glenn.

Apriciate your honesty.

Looking forward to watching the next episodes.

Thank you Glenn, I am looking forward to this.

In my time as a musician & engineer I have to say, a great drum recording starts with a well tuned kit. Something that frankly, I've never quite come to grips with. Plenty of how-to videos but they all fall into the same routine of "alternate lugs, finger tighten first" & so on. The mechanics of tuning, not the art of how to achieve any particular result. I have a pearl vision birch kit myself & I've never done the poor thing justice tuning wise. Would love to see an in depth vid on that. Great video as usual Glen!

Holy SHIT this drummer rocks damn.

Glenn u should try Vance Powell’s “knee mic trick” he puts the mic trough a distortion pedal and a delay pedal for a tapedelay effect as in “when the levee breaks” from led zep. U need to check this one out, i love it !

Looking forward to this series.

Came here a year ago, new to owning and recording my own drums. Thanks Glenn, looking forward to the series!

Only thing that sucks about this video is the revamped series isnt out yet :p Thanks for this Glenn! Cant wait for the new content!

That ambience sample is a very Andy Wallace kind of move. Last I heard you weren't very keen on him doing that!

Hey uncle Glenn, you probably won’t see this but, could you do an episode where you go more in-depth with your signal flow within the DAW? show what you are routing to each buss and in what order? Is the entire kit being sent to the crush bus? Verb bus? What processing are you doing on the buses and what processing are you doing on the channels themselves before they get sent to buses.

It's so funny you guys posted this on the day I'm going to pick up my new kit

Very excited for this series! 🎤🥁

Been waiting for this update! What a channel

Cam is straight up killing it 🔥. This is going to be awesome!

Hell yeah! I’m so hyped for this series!

Roc-n-Soc sighting in the "where to start" segment thumbnail - I've had one for going on 15 years and it's *almost* getting time to replace the gas shock in it. ;-) Yeah, you pay up a little but it's been super worth it - it's even survived the *cats* as long as you keep the hair out the wheels (yeah, I use it for *everything* in my office/lab, literally, including drums - there's a square seat option that has been excellent) and the seat cover hasn't even started to break down yet it's a soft cooling fabric. That's like 12 bucks a year spent on throne and office/gaming chair expenses. This thing is *silent* as a whisper, always. If it starts squeaking that means to torque the bolts under the seat back down again. Lever control makes it very quick to put it to the right height for whoever happens to sit on it. It's amazing how much that little shock absorber saves your back no matter what you're doing on it. *I am not affiliated with Roc n Soc outside of having one of their chairs for a really long time*

Peace sells has a fantastic drum sound. Pyromania is another example of a great drum sound that uses samples

I started recording drums myself shortly after doing studio time in 2013 (The first time is always an eye opening experience) and I do not regret dropping all that money on space rental/recording gear to further that skill. I've searched high and low for all the tutorials on youtube - and after your first bit of "How to record heavy drums" I have to say I'm pretty psyched for more. Now I just need to find a new hall to record in, in covid era, in SW Ontario. That's going to suck.

This was really great. I've watched a lot of mic placement videos (there's always the "TWO MIC SOLUTION DRUM KIT TRICK CLICK HERE" ones or some variant lol) and this was actually a nice structured easy to follow encapsulation of balanced theory and application. Again, I know it's your actual job, etcetera, but something like this takes a bit of time to put together. It's not the composition, it's the proofreading and fixing that always takes time. :-) Whatever retailers you work with I bet would support you doing a breakdown and demo on the Yamaha EAD10 mic solution/system, if it ends up being something that actually have value in demonstrating. Every demo I've watched on the EAD10 does a fine job of demonstrating the thing itself but none of them seem to do it in a way that helps me understand, as a novice to audio/line level recording/production, what the thing actually is. It seems like it's part actual microphone and part not with a brain box that does stuff but I'm unsure how it maps against every other way to mic/record drums/percussion parts.

Loved this! You should do a whole mix with cla presets vs your regular mix to show all these people what they are doing wrong.

i use the la120s on overheads too. freakin awesome, especially for the price.

For ages I had a question - How much room acoustics matters in a mixing room with that wall of amp heads?

SOOOO looking forward to this. I am recording my own drums... so I hope you address a couple of questions. There must be a balance between new heads on every session, and new heads on some cadence. Like annualy changing heads for for some drummers might be enough? Around not quantizing. But editing drums in general. Isn't the goal to time align... I understand the difference between perfect (beat detective) and closer to the click, and that makes a huge difference... and once you fix one section, everything else sounds wonky. I get I write parts I can't play well (double kick), but I hope that's a "yet, I'm working on it.) And I'm not even going to ask about teaching a drummer to record heavy guitar tones... yet (I have bought that course).

In my experience from gigging, the main thing drummers tend to need first are cymbals/breakables, so if you haven’t included this already, maybe a guide on what to look out for when buying cymbals/hi hats would be useful in the future

I thought I was pissed off in 1989! Great pic Glenn!

This is why I subscribed!!!! Great video Glenn!!!!!!

1989...fast forward to today, I plugged in my Roland R8 drum machine and it just worked

Great rant on the end of video!

Im a year late but this was very helpful!! You kick ass brother!!

Not sure if this means anything... But Ive been exploring ways to use the metronome in a way that the metronome defeats its self so that all you get is click click click click..... not click click click ping... Leaving the user to make up the bpm in their head while keeping track of the grid as not to lose sight of features such as snap to grid and such... That way you can throw in tempo changes... Time signiture changes... What ever you want... Speed it up, slow it down etc. So I try to set the metronome up like that... So that there is no metronome influence but there is still something there to tell you where everything is at... Hope this is useful... Also seen the video on the SM7b... The guy who sold me mine said to buy a cloud filter to boost the power on it in order to get the results Im looking for. So the cloud filter really does help me with mics like the SM58 Sm7b and any cheap dynamic mic really... I really wish someone would have told me that sooner. Hope it helps. Thanks Glen.

Mournin' Nerds! Here we go!

You should trigger room expansion with the snare and toms with a longer release and then do the same thing again but with a super fast side chain of just the peak attack of the snare and toms after the expansion, will keep them punchy with a slight delay before the room comes in on the hits

20:51 ha! the only two plugins I've ever spent money on

Cameron is such a beast on the kit

"Hot for the teacher" Bass Drum sounds less than a minute in?!!! Yes!! BTW, before you get exited Glenn? I meant the VH song. HA! Seriously, those acoustic drum sounds are freaking incredible, and not at all easy to come by from my experience. Top producers have been putting snare & bass drum samples on tracks for decades, but the ability to blend them in to sound realistic is the actual proof in the overall pudding. Great video Glenn!!! Stay gold man!

Good morning and greetings from Florida. I missed my 6 am flight from Orlando to Philly so I guess I'm nerdying out with Glenn...keep it up dude!

As the "sound engineer" to my own drumming, I am actually my own worst enemy

Hey Glenn, I noticed your tom sounds getting a lot better over the years. Is there anything particular that you can point to that you do fundamentally differently than let's say 5 years ago, or is it just small gradual improvements in all the pieces off the puzzle?

I absolutely love that mic. I hope I can aford it one day

great video !!! drums well tuned sounds killer

Hey Glenn, I’m the guitarist and singer of my band. We play mostly originals. Which at a point want to start recording as well. Next to that, I am the person responsible for our live sound, but also the studio sound when it comes to recording tracks. Lots of the techniques I apply, I got from watching your channel religiously. (I love the content you create). When it comes to drums, I understand that the overall setting is different between live and studio. But are there some tips and tricks you can give as to where to start in these two vastly different circumstances? How different is the overall approach to miking the parts of the drum kit? And same question applies to the mixing part. Thanks and fuck you from The Netherlands. Cheers, Dennis

Really hope you're gonna be talking about influence of the room that the drums are being recorded in, and and what we can do to make a crappy room usable, what some common mistakes are etc.

Love you Glenn! This is gold , love the comments about dummer attitudes! Been playing for 30 years now and i just started to really dive into recording my drums. This episode is , again, a little gem, very useful and straight to the point which i truely appreciate. I use Reaper also as my DAW but not functionnal on my behalf to operate due to being a beginner in this. i saw that you use the aix DSP drum eq. What do you use as a compressor? I am getting Lewitt mics, i have access with my Attack drumheads rep from which i am endorsed. Saw that you use Lauton mics....Do you prefer them to Lewitt? I have the exact same Audix D6 that i really like. My other drum mics are a bit too cheap to use professionally....Alpha Series. Do you like the Rhodes overhead mics? Or Lewitt are better? My studio room is not very large either.....13 x 30 feet....9 feet high ceilings. should i go with ribbon mics as room mics or do you recommend something else? P.S. on a tight budget loll Thx and keep going, very entertaining and educationnal.

yeah but what about changing up compression to where it doesn't sound like you're clapping your hands over your ears every time the drummer hits somethin

Perfect timing! (pun intended), I just watched your previous series of vids to scrape the rust off as a reminder of how to record drums (it's been a long time since I rock'n'rolled...) Mic'd up my kit after doing some room treatment, things sound pretty good as a start but there's room for improvement. Maybe a drum dial and making a bass drum mic from an old speaker will be next...

What about recording your own kit to use as samples? And maybe a video about trying to record drums in less than ideal spaces (bedrooms, living rooms ect) would be cool.

Thank you, Glenn!

Glenn, what is that pad underneath the high hat @ 19:27? Is it for sound isolation?

Great Video Glen ! I will tell you tho most studios DON"T have DW drums or Pearl Masters . That Pearl Set Looks Gorgeous and sounds great . Im sure the drummer has something to do with that lol. I must say that is also a live situation to with drums . If a house kit was like yours i would not ever worry about the drum set but my experience is a lot different with Recording studios , clubs and venues . I take pride in my gear and the way I maintain them , heads hardware. sticks( yes sticks make a difference!) . So realize not all drummers are dumb lol. Drums are not created equal contrary to what guitar players and singers think :)

GLEEEEEEEEEN!!! Thank you

I must be lucky, because I have always only gotten great Drum sounds, except for one time when the session was going past the 12 hour mark and the Snare that got recorded for the take was pretty much beaten to death, so yes, I used a sample, and it was my own. Producer's packs didn't exist then.

Brilliant stuff

DAAAAYYYYYM!!!!!! That drummer!!!!!

It's about goddamn time Glenn!

Thanks, Glenn!!!!

Thanks for this. Great info!

I feel like recording drums is the pinnacle of metal recording. I can record anything in a typical metal band and get it to sound good... drums tho, that's a whole new beast and lots of barrier to entry regarding cost and good drummers. Shit, recording acoustic instruments in general can be tough, especially when it's like multiple horns or something.