When using Rudiment Mode in Drummer ITP, the app takes on a new and unique approach to metronomes and development of timing accuracy for drummers. Using Rudiment Mode you can track your ability and progress with timing control for a number of tempos and rudiment patterns.Opening the Rudiments page allows you to choose between many different rudiments and practice exercises. … [Read more...] about Drummer ITP – Rudiment Mode Tutorial
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Drummer ITP – Click Designer and Settings Tutorial
In the Drummer ITP app, there are a few metronome settings to help you find the specific click sound which helps you the most when practicing. To activeate the Settings page just hit the Settings button at the bottom left of the main screen.Firstly, the metronome in Drummer ITP always counts with the click sound on every beat. You can adjust the musical pitch of the click … [Read more...] about Drummer ITP – Click Designer and Settings Tutorial
Drummer ITP – App Settings and Learn-Latency Tutorial
Drummer ITP is designed to automatically compensate for audio latency, but for some devices it may be necessary to activate the manual 'Learn Latency' feature, accessed in the App Settings section of Drummer ITP. It is only necessary to use this feature if the app doesn't measure its own click sound to 100% accuracy.But what is latency? Latency is the amount of time an … [Read more...] about Drummer ITP – App Settings and Learn-Latency Tutorial
What is drum tuning? – Everything You Need To Know
Drum tuning refers to all aspects of optimising the sound of a particular drum kit. Generally, the word tuning is used to refer to the setup and optimisation of any system (we can tune an engine, an algorithm and a musical instrument!). So, drum tuning refers to everything you can do to optimise a drum kit’s sound, from applying just the right amount of tension to each of the … [Read more...] about What is drum tuning? – Everything You Need To Know
High-Resolution Audio: How True is your Playback?
There is much debate about high-resolution audio and it's a topic that some the world's most esteemed audio engineers disagree on. Many argue that high sample rate recordings sound better than standard resolution audio recordings, whereas others claim that the pure mathematical theories of digital-signal-processing show there is no benefit to sampling audio at frequencies above … [Read more...] about High-Resolution Audio: How True is your Playback?
Ultimate Guide to Musical Frequencies
In this article we unpick the key concepts relating to musical frequencies, and link these to the tuning of musical instruments and the creation of music, focusing particularly on drums and drumheads too. We cover all aspects of musical frequencies relating to notes on the piano keyboard and the intervals between notes. We also take a look at the concepts of the ‘equal … [Read more...] about Ultimate Guide to Musical Frequencies
What is Comb Filtering?
Comb filtering is often a challenging subject to cover and understand, but its effects are significant when recording and mixing, so it is very much a topic that is worth learning about both theoretically and with respect to experiencing how sounds change when they are subject to comb filtering. Before discussing comb filtering in detail, we should first recap on the concept of … [Read more...] about What is Comb Filtering?
Mixing Drums with Drum Replacement
Drum replacement might be considered to be an advanced mixing technique, but, in reality, drum replacement can be quite simple to implement with the correct tools and approach. In this article we look specifically at the best approaches to drum replacement, and ask when to use drum replacement and how drum replacement can be implemented in DAWs such as Logic, Pro Tools and … [Read more...] about Mixing Drums with Drum Replacement
How Many Mics do you Need for Recording Drums?
Recording drums is one of the most exciting days in the recording studio! Getting the drums tracked right can have a huge positive impact on the rest of the project, so it’s worth putting in some thought into what drum recording setup to use long before the session starts. But with so many drums, cymbals, bar chimes (etc!) in the kit, and so many different types of sound to … [Read more...] about How Many Mics do you Need for Recording Drums?
Track, Bus and Parallel Compression for Mixing Drums
Drums are somewhat defined by the fact that they generate extremely dynamic and transient sound waveforms. As such, dynamics processing tools are fundamental to controlling and enhancing drum recordings in the mix. In many respects, the volume fader is the simplest form of dynamic processing tool, allowing us to manually adjust the amplitude levels of a track. We can either set … [Read more...] about Track, Bus and Parallel Compression for Mixing Drums
Mixing Drums? Know your drum frequencies!
In this post we explore how to mix drums and a guide to understanding drum frequencies. One of the most commonly used mix tools is the equaliser (EQ), which allows us to manipulate the volume of different aspects of an audio waveform’s frequency spectrum. Beware, the equaliser is rarely used in mixing for making things “equal”, though! That was its original intended … [Read more...] about Mixing Drums? Know your drum frequencies!
How to Tune Drums?
It’s true, drum tuning can be quite daunting for a new drummer. It takes a number of years for most drummers to develop the required understanding and hearing skills in order to tune drums without help. Many drummers, even those with lots of professional experience, find drum tuning a challenge, and find it difficult to understand what changes in the setup or tuning will … [Read more...] about How to Tune Drums?
The Best Drum Tuning Tips: How To Master Drum Sound
Drums are one of the most challenging instruments to tune, because they have so many different components which all affect the overall sound – a drumhead has 5, 6, 8 or 10 tuning lugs, doubled up on both the batter and resonant sides. Not to mention that each drum in the kit deserves to be tuned to its own particular pitch, so that drum rolls and phrases sound stylistic and … [Read more...] about The Best Drum Tuning Tips: How To Master Drum Sound
1. Why Bother with Drum Tuning?
It’s a good question, but one most experienced drummers will be very aware of the numerous answers to. Drums and drummers often receive a hard time from other musicians, because they are so ‘straight-forward’ in comparison to many instruments – you just hit them and they make a noise! But, actually, drums are much more difficult to tune than a guitar or violin, for example. … [Read more...] about 1. Why Bother with Drum Tuning?
