Unless you have a great-sounding room (which is rare!) you&#039;re better off recording a dry-sounding kit and adding ambience during the mix with a convolution reverb. We wanted a bright plate sound for the snare, and chose the &#039;Spitty Drums&#039; impulse response in Space Designer, using the graphic envelope to reduce the intensity of the reverb decay and a heavy roll-off below 200Hz to thin out the reverb sound.