Recording Drums: Planning For Phase

Question 1

By making the phase difference as close to 180° as possible, you can use the ? ? switch on your mixer or audio interface. This’ll invert the waveform of one channel and bring the two microphones back into ? with each other.

Answer 1

Polarity inversion.

Phase.

Question 2

You should check the ? of snare top and bottom, overheads with snare top, kick with overheads, toms with overheads and hi-hat with overheads.

Answer 2

Phase.