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How to Mic Drums  * Written by Eli L Higginbotham: " I love mixing live sound, tracking in a recording studio, and I love to make happy music. ...What is happy music? ...Well in my opinion making music happy is making music sound great! " One of the most difficult things for inexperienced audio engineers and music producers to do is get a great drum sound. Drum kits can be very tough to deal with just simply due to how many mics are needed, how many moving parts they have, and how frustrating drummer personalities can be. Believe it or not, microphone placement is the single most important aspect of the getting a great drum sound regardless of the equipment you have at your disposal. Drums, microphones, preamps, eq's, compressors, and speakers can only sound as good as they are made. However the biggest variable in the entire chain is the placement of the microphone. Microphones are input transducers but they are also the first equalizer in the audio signal path. Don...

History of Drums * Written by Victor Epand - considered  an expert consultant for guitars, drums, and synthesizers.  History of drums began with the emergence of human civilization. Drum beating as it is popularly known has been associated with the birth of humankind. Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to DnB, drum n bass and drum and bass) is a sort of electronic dance music also known as jungle. It is also called a membranophone, means an instrument that makes sound by striking a prolonged membrane with some type of object, typically a curved stick. Drums consist of a hollowed out piece (called the body), a covering extended over the end of the drum, and tuning keys or pegs which stiffens or loosens the membrane to achieve different tones. It is a common notion that the body of the drum generates the sound; it is in fact the membrane and its vibration that creates the sound when struck. Following the history of drums, it is presumed origination of drums to be a...