The moment you place the drums in a real room, you are going to get reflections from the room – ambience.
Here, there would be no reflections from the walls, ceiling or floor, and you would only hear the attack of the drums and the natural decay from their shells. Also, I’m doing this in Cubase, but this will work in Logic X, Pro Tools, Reaper, Studio One, FL Studio, SONAR – whatever your flavour of DAW…įirstly – what do I mean by De-Verb? Imagine recording Drums in an Anechoic Chamber. No time now to go into Polarity Inversion, Phase Inversion, the differences between them – you want that, read the daddy of articles over on Sound on Sound – Phase Demystified. We’re going to do something along those lines here… so make sure you’re familiar with the operation of the Phase/Polarity invert button -> it’ll look something like this (Orange in this Image). This idea stems from a chat I had with the excellent Bruce Aisher a while back on how Brian Eno (it would be, wouldn’t it )) used phase/polarity inversion during mixing.
