1. Grab hold of mix screen, click all on the top right of the 'edit' screen, click 'expanded transport'
2. A-Z needs to be highlighted gold (on the edit screen) to enable keyboard shortcuts
3. Go on to the set up menu, click 'playback engine', choose 'short' on the 'delay compensation engine'
4. Click on the Protools HD preferences, click 'operation', 'open-ended recording', limit to 5 minutes (or however long the overall piece will be)
5. Always use Phantom Power when recording with Condenser microphones!
Microphones:
Bass Drum - Sennheiser E602 (Cardioid, Dynamic microphone)
Snare - DPA 4090 (Condenser microphone), two, placed above and below the snare, Phase reverse one of these two microphones
High hat - AKG 414 (Omnidirectional, Condenser), angle the microphone at the sound edge, avoiding proximity/ bass tip-up effect
Overheads - Neumann TLN 103 (Condenser), one microphone above the drum kit, the second on the side across from the Tom at a lower level, both should be the same distance from the Snare
Setting up drum tracks:
Bass drum - mono
Two Snares - mono
High hat - mono
Overheads - Stereo (or two monos but 'pan' one to the left and the other to the right)
