Prepping Your Drums with David Mead

Prepping For The Studio · Jun 25, 2026 · 1h 11m

In this episode of Prepping for the Studio, hosts Roy Silverstein and Brian Scheuble are joined again by guitar/drum tech and musician, David Mead, to discuss prepping your drums for recording.

This is a part two of our conversation with David that started last episode with a discussion on prepping your guitars. Since he is also a drummer and has a lot of experience dealing with drums too, we decided to have him back to talk about shells, heads, cymbals, and the like.

We also get into talking about tuning and dampening. Considering how important drums are for your recordings, this is…