Listening to the recording & analysis

Music Lesson

All right, so let's have a listen and see how it sounds.

As you can see, there's only one track, it's one microphone. Obviously, I used my U87 for this. You can use pretty much any condenser mic, or even if you have a good quality dynamic mic, you can also use that. I've used the Shure SM7, but generally, I would say you get a better result with a condenser mic.

So whatever you have, try it out and see how it sounds. But let's have a listen to see how this sounds.

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Lyrics:

You got a whole big bag of money.
You take it in your stride.
A smile won't cost you nothing,
not even for a while.
But I've got love,
I've got love on my side.

You live in way out west,
'Cause you think it's best in your thousand dollar room.
Will you telescope at you?
But I've got love,
I've got love on my.

And you can't take the heat.

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As you can hear, it sits pretty nicely in the mix. It's not a perfect sound, but it's definitely usable. With a little bit of processing, this could probably sound pretty good, I would say.

I would not use this on a session, but as a technique to get ideas down, this is really good. You can hear the drum kit is pretty balanced. You can hear the kick, the snare, and the hats. It's a little bit roomy sounding because it's obviously a condenser mic and it picks up quite a lot of the room.

There are no close mics, but it's a very good quality sound of the drum kit, and it's easy to achieve. So there you go, you can use that. Even if you put a little bit of compression on it, it will probably sound a bit tighter and pop a little bit more.

Key Takeaways:

• Very useful technique.
• The drum kit is very balanced when you hear it.
• With a bit of EQ and compression, you can get a really good sound out of it.

So, yeah, again, a very useful tool.

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Now let's move on to three mics. We are going to close mic the kick and the snare, so we get a tighter sound, and we're going to use our U87 as an overhead. So that's three mics here.