Digital Recording Equipment: Perfect Your Sound! - The Drum ...

The quality of digital recording equipment is crucial for musicians, especially drummers because it is very easy for the sound of an acoustic drum to become distorted by poor digital recording equipment. The sound from poor digital recording equipment often records vibrations as static and creates a lot of white noise between recordings which muffles the clarity and resonance of the actual piece being composed making it sound unprofessional and compromising on your musical integrity.

The following digital recording equipment is the works best for drummers when they want to produce quality digital recordings:

➢ Drum Loop Pedal: A drum loop pedal is extremely useful when you are recording as you can add layers of beats to your track which you can fuse together to create intriguing sounds. This gives you freedom to play around with the sound and you can find out how a particular beat sounds by matching them to others and compiling them together at the end for the final track.

➢ Digital Recording Software: These days most digital recordings are done on computers. Invest in quality sound recording and editing software to create and render the final version of your track for professional grade sound quality.

➢ Metronome: A metronome is a device that can produce regular, metrical clicks which can be set in beats per minute. The clicks represent a focused, regular aural pulse, which are sometimes emphasized by synched visual motions such as a swinging needle or pendulum. Drummers can create a metronome roll while they play but whilst recording it is very useful to have a metronome to stay in tune.

➢ Drum Microphone Kit: These are a series of microphones that you can hook up to different pieces of your drum kit so that they record the individual sounds being produced with every stroke and accent clearly. A standard kit would have four microphones, a standard mic on the snare, a separate one for your tom, and one for your kick. Some kits have an audio technical mic that is attached to your set for backup vocals.

Every musician knows the importance of sound recording to document their sound and performances. The reasons behind this are numerous, such as critiquing your own work, listening to your sound on playback to pinpoint errors and mistakes, creating a demo disc for distribution to labels in hopes of getting discovered or simply for your own enjoyment. What is essential is that you have the correct digital recording equipment that can do justice to your music and can record it as clearly as possible.

Noise reducing headphones are also essential when you purchase digital recording equipment as you need to hear your sound down to the very last beat so that it turns up perfect in the final recording. Without them you would not be able to decipher miniscule feedback that you might not notice after sessions of playing but become blatantly obvious after the final recording which takes ages to fix, costing you a lot of time and money.