



drum shield, but that clearly it wasn’t enough. We had to get a new one. When I listened to that multi-track recording, I discovered there was a ton of mic bleed from the drum set into our vocal mics, and that was causing all the noise. I made a multi-track recording of our worship set which meant that I could hear what was coming through every single mic. It was causing problems for him, it was causing problems for me and my sound guys, and we had a really difficult time figuring out, why are the drums overpowering the mix? Our drummer, Luke, was playing as softly as he possibly could, but it was still too loud and he didn’t know what else to do. You can also tell your drummer to play lighter. You can get thinner sticks for your drummer. You can get really thin cymbals that aren't as loud as big, thick cymbals. As we’ve been dialing in our mix, we've heard complaints that the music is too loud and we discovered that the drums were overpowering everything.Īt first, we tried some really simple things to lower the volume. We started Mission Lakewood Church a year ago.
