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How Jimmy Page miked drums

The SOP in rock recording at the time was to put the drummer in a small, dead isolation room with multiple mikes on different parts of his kit.

Jimmy reasoned that this unduly constricted the sound by robbing it of the acoustic ambience that made live drums sound good. He put Bonham out in the middle of a large, somewhat reflective room and set just a stereo pair of mikes about 12 feet away.

So what do you think of the drum sound on those Zep records? To me, it has more punch and more spaciousness than was typical in other rock recordings of the same era. Of course, Bonham was such a balanced player that he didn't need different parts of his kit balanced and mixed electronically. That certainly helped.


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