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The easy guide to recording drums: kit tips, mic placement and setting up your DAW
Inject some feel into your tracks by recording a real human drummer (no jokes, please) playing actual drums!
How to make virtual acoustic drum performances sound like the real thing
If you find that your MIDI recreations of acoustic drum parts are sounding a little robotic, we've got some tips and tricks to bring them to life, along with some great suggestions for acoustic drum plugin suites.
Listen to 11 isolated drum tracks from rock's drumming legends
Led Zeppelin, Rush, The Beatles, Slipknot, The Police, and more
The story of Gene Krupa, the king of swing
Krupa was "a dazzling blitzkrieg of cymbal and snare drum violence", and one of the most influential drummers ever
How the drum machine grew into a viable alternative to real drummers
There's not much early-80s tech that still influences modern creativity, but the dominance of electronic drum sounds stems right back to 1980, and a bizarre series of unfortunate events…
Prince’s ability to keep time when he was recording drums was remarkable, says his engineer
“He would say ‘OK, that’s so close, cut it one more time,’ and I wouldn’t do it because I physically couldn’t cut a 16th of an inch without chowdering the tape”
Read our classic interview with Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine
"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it"
