Electronic Musician

Preparing to record

hen setting up a recording session, the first thing you need to sort out is the room in which the drums are going to be recorded. The question is: live or dead? If you’re making a rock track, you’ll need a ‘live’-sounding room or an adjacent live-sounding room where you can put ambient mics. If there’s a rug on a wooden floor, get rid of it –

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