Minimal Drum Setup

For venues with a basic backline kit all youll need is your sticks and bass drum pedal although you will probably prefer your own cymbals.

Guitar hero drum set wii manual. Ive seen kits with one or more of these sounds missing. Hithis is minimal drum kit using arduino unofirst of all please check this instructables pagee drum with small 3d printer and thick papersince i started making this i was captivated by piezo and electronic drumsi was fascinated by a very sim. For venues without a kit the absolute minimum would be snare bass drum and hi hat.

Arduino minimal drum kit. The front of kit approximately 2 back from the kick and 4 up meanwhile is the punchiest. The drum set of your dreams could be anywhere from the simple 4 piece setup that many jazz legends prefer to the monstrous 30 piece kits of rock gods like neil peart.

But regardless of which you think you want. Next youll want to anchor the bass drum in a central spot leaving plenty of room on either side to build. Thats the overwhelming majority of venues in my area.

You can then mix this in with the other drum tracks to add a different quality of reverberation to the drums. But the drummers perspective position might just be the most realistic. However i gig with a four piece kit at most and just a few cymbals.

One mic directly over the kit about 40 inches high and looking directly down at the snare drum. I have a kit with seven drums and at least as many cymbals that i play in my studio. Set up your drums in a nice sounding room and place an additional mic just outside the door to catch an additional ambient sound.

The room position a minimum of 10 from the kit has the most ambience and sounds farthest away. Hi hat can operate as a poor mans cymbals in a pinch. How to set up your drums throne.

This is your center of. A second mic at the 3 oclock position to the floor tom drummers perspective about 1 or 2 feet above the rim of the tom looking across the kit to the hi hat and 40 inches from the snare drum. It offers lots of sounds and colors for recording.

The first thing youll want to do is get your throne adjusted to a comfortable height. I think id class this as a minimal kit as it has the minimum number of all the standard components kick snare tom cymbal hats.