Improve your Snare Drum - Behringer X32

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Improve your snare drum sound by using the Polarity and Delay to your advantage! In this video I explain the reasons why we should use delay and polarity reverse on the drum mics and how this helps us.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:18 Polarity of the Snare Microphones
08:30 Delaying Snare Mics to be in Phase with Overhead Mics
15:02 Conclusion

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@johnmichaelmacdonald9117 Жыл бұрын

This is excellent Drew! What a great video.

@donm1547 Жыл бұрын

Awesome explanation, Drew.

@sandersonstunes 2 жыл бұрын

The Delay tip is such a fine tuning addition people never even think about. Most sound checks don't have enough time to go through and make these small adjustments.

@djjazzyjeff1232 Жыл бұрын

It's a balancing act for sure. But the good news is you can do all this fine tuning during the gig with the headphones. Just get everything set up, get the mix roughed-in, and THEN you can worry about all this stuff. And then once you get it the way you like it, make a note of what you did and then you can repeat that going forward! Personally I've never had a need to use overheads for live as there's enough bleed into vocal mics and stuff that it's never been an issue, maybe some day if my band starts playing large clubs and Arenas, then we'll worry about that kind of thing lol.

@freemandiaz5123 2 жыл бұрын

Master class, Drew!

@nankoraable 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Drew 🎯

@Suntric Жыл бұрын

Awesome!, very helpful

@GenilsonOficial Жыл бұрын

Too good! This delay technique I did not know.

@yaye606 Жыл бұрын

that's brolic dude thanks a lot, i do this in recording but never thought about it for the live gigs

@icmedan4881 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks drew...this is a very good tutorial. I wont be like me now if there's no you ❤️❤️👍👍🙏🙏

@riverasilva2661 2 жыл бұрын

Muy bueno, Saludos desde Arequipa - Perú!!!

@realblack_priest 2 жыл бұрын

Much love from Nigeria

@dlcarburetor 2 жыл бұрын

Some good tips here

@mbalabenoit7750 2 жыл бұрын

U help me in many things.

@HiPass24 2 жыл бұрын

good video, most 'improve your snare' videos only touch on compression and eq and maybe a little on the bottom mic, but most totally miss on the OH part. matching the actual distance from the snare center to the OH mics will also clean up the image and improve definition. once the snare level is identical on both mics together with identical arrival times, everything changes! another tip that is a bit more of a bandaid if you can't make the snare work well with the OHs (and also have a very specific sound to it, so YMMV) is to use a sidechain compressor over the OHs bus, and trigger it with the snare (this also works with snare bleed into the HH)

@djjazzyjeff1232 Жыл бұрын

Can you elaborate on that, that sounds interesting. Because in dealing with inexperienced drummers especially, sometimes a bandaid is the best you got lol.

@paulmorrey733 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Drew

@aa-fo5ou 2 жыл бұрын

Drew. I was told the over heads are frequency response mic. Designed for high frequency sounds so the just pick up cymbal sounds I guess like 80%. Over all . .

@mbalabenoit7750 2 жыл бұрын

I like the way you show us hw to use that x 32.

@micahmuth4256 2 жыл бұрын

ah man, the polarity vs phase got me. hahaha I'm glad I'm not the only one who preaches this. I dunno if you had Cory 1rst cycle at school or not, but man he went to town on that topic. him and allan's topics are some of the few etched in my mind hahaha

@nmawutor6636 2 жыл бұрын

very valid point @Drew Brashler.... Is there a way I can get the your multitrack for the song used...if copyright allows you to share... it's strightly for practice purpose...Love the song❤

@muscleboy79 Жыл бұрын

Hey Drew thank you for your tips, we are have issues with too much overtone (ringing) from the snare drum mic, how do I adjust this on the x32?

@hispanitri 8 ай бұрын

Súper!!!

@ambotlang Жыл бұрын

Thanks! if i may ask bout setting delay FOH with guitar amp mikings as well as drums miking.. Thank you!

@wicho_clipz2712 Жыл бұрын

Hello! im the sound guy at my church aswell ,can you do a vid of eq for kick drums and toms.. I also have trouble on feedback ,how can I clean all my audio to have a strong a full audio with out interference problems,good vid💯

@wildecorrea6477 2 жыл бұрын

🇧🇷😮Woooooooowwwww!!! Awesome class!!! 💙💙💙🇺🇸💙💙💙👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻🔥

@DonManoBaget Жыл бұрын

Do you have any videos on how to EQ the whole drum?

@travel4you573 Жыл бұрын

How will or can you save the changes being made, to that individual channel selected vice saving the entire scene????

@BillyMuircroft-wh3cu 6 ай бұрын

Would you apply delay on other shells? Such as toms and kick drum to optimise the frequency spectrum of those close mics along with the OH? Thanks for these videos.

@racesla Жыл бұрын

Hi Drew great tips. Would using a delay on the the toms in the same fashion with the overheads also help their sound? Thanks.

@GhanaianBluesman Жыл бұрын

@drewbrashler i would love to know this as well

@maclawsonj Жыл бұрын

I noticed the master fader clips,wanna know if it does matter or not?

@mbalabenoit7750 2 жыл бұрын

But i see the drum is cliping there that can't make a trouble or distortion?

@Egcatalan7305 Жыл бұрын

Question… If your wanting to have the overhead mics in phase coherent position… most traditional snare locations are often “left” of the kit.. I can see where you can place the stage right overhead.. but where will you be placing the stage left overheard..? If phase coherent is what you are aiming for.. then the snare would have to be dead in the middle of the kit, right?

@timnordberg7204 4 ай бұрын

one school of thought is to approach it this way: draw an imaginary straight line that goes through the center of your kick drum and the center of your snare. It's likely slightly diagonal to the stage. Draw a second imaginary line perpendicular to the snare-kick axis line. Place your OH mics on that line, equidistant from the snare. For live shows on small stages, this may not be an option. But you're likely getting so much brass through the vocal mics that OH is not a big concern if that's the case.

@zerodbu 3 ай бұрын

I've been doing the cord-as-measuring-tape trick for years on live shows and it's so validating to see some corroborating it. I put overheads symmetrically over the center of the kick and raise (vertically) the one on the snare side to time-align the pair.

@danielfmyers 2 жыл бұрын

Tip: don’t let the drummer touch the mics after you set them up.

@BjorgenEatinger Жыл бұрын

LOL...huh?

@Kakker71 8 ай бұрын

I´m so fortunate, that my drummer is just as much a tech nerd as I am, so he sets up his mics, measure distance and relay to me so I can compensate with delay. 🙂

@jamphotostudio 4 ай бұрын

Exactly. I’m the drummer and I just bought the X32 Rack. Im trying to get the best sound out of my kit, maybe by adding another mic the the snare and mixing them myself. Just trying to learn all about it here. What is the purpose of reversing the polarity. I don’t really understand what it does to the mic physically. I hear what happens but I like to know what the mic is actually doing different and why it’s important.

@aaronarndt3045 5 ай бұрын

why compressing bottom mic ?

@TheRobertCostello Жыл бұрын

Kinda confusing that you said it doesn't change phase, but the manual says, "press the ø button to reverse the channel’s phase"

@stevenadams-o9k 11 ай бұрын

It’s the phase and it works trust me

@manydreams1life315 Жыл бұрын

I've been doing sound in cover bands at a pretty good level every weekend for 18 years and I CANNOT get a snare drum to come through the mains. Signal is -18; Boost 1K as far as it goes; and on an on. Tried dozens of mics and dozens of cords. I'm convinced snare drum has to be triggered in a band mix to heard.

@Kakker71 8 ай бұрын

Isn´t it just starting out with the snare, find a good strong output for it and then turn up the rest of the mics to match the volume? I´m only asking because that is what I do when I mix my own bands music.

@timnordberg7204 4 ай бұрын

What's your PA like? If it's small to the point where you're mostly just pushing vocal through it but want some snare, try doing just a bottom mic. Don't boost at 1k. Try 5-8k. You'll get the body of the snare acoustically, but you'll get some snap and wires through the mains. Compress at will.

@16LiveRecords 2 жыл бұрын

Cool vid! Tip: do not let sound engineer to delay any instrument for you inear mix. Live sound overheads shoud not amplify frequencies, those cancel each instruments. You can experiment this way in studio, byt for live sound, this is eye surgery done thru anus. 🤨

@matthewcampbell2327 2 жыл бұрын

Do you know if when running delay in the X32/M32, that is running FOH and monitors, will that delay transmit through the monitors as well. I haven't test it yet, but that's a very good point.

@original_pokey8896 Жыл бұрын

Noob here….. when micing the snare and you only have one mic… is the top of bottom the one to go with. FYI I have two over heads

@webjammer1 Жыл бұрын

The problem is that the snare doesn't need to be delayed, the other channels need to be moved forward. Not possible live, but easily done post production.

@16LiveRecords 2 жыл бұрын

Lool phase memes again? Don't You mind If I phase invert your bank acount? For you it will only be a "time" and I just wire some flipping transaction 🤣 okay? 100% wrong? 🤗