Vinyl record representing a captured drum take

Live session

Record the room.

Beat Realm isn't only headphones and screens. When you sit behind a real kit — alone or in a room full of people — this is where the take gets captured, played back and kept.

Sound waveform visualizationOne clean stereo take
EAD module mounted on a bass drum hoop

What is EAD?

EAD stands for Electronic Acoustic Drums — a small module that mics your acoustic kit and adds reverb, effects and a kick trigger, then sends one clean stereo mix out. It's the fastest way to make a bedroom kit sound like a studio kit without a single extra microphone stand.

Set up your session

EAD module mounted on a bass drum hoop
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Mount the module

An EAD (Electronic Acoustic Drums) module clips to your bass drum hoop. Its sensor unit holds a stereo condenser mic pair plus a kick trigger, so it hears the whole room and feels the kick separately.

Microphone and recording module on a stand
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Connect to this device

Run the module's USB or line-out into your phone, tablet or laptop and select it as the input. No module? Skip it — the recorder below will use your built-in mic and still capture a usable room take.

Premium studio headphones for monitoring
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Set the room, then hit record

Place the kit roughly 2–3 ft off a wall, play your loudest hit and check the level meter stays out of the red. Then arm the take and count yourself in.

Your take

EAD Take
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Takes are saved in-session only. Cloud sync is on the roadmap.

Session tips

Drummer recording in a studio environment

Play to a click

Open the Tempo Room on a second device (or set the module's click) so your live take lines up if you layer it later.

One song, three takes

Takes get better fast. Record three passes of the same groove and keep the one that breathes, not the one that's perfect.

Mind the cymbals

Room mics hear cymbals first. Back off the crashes about 20% versus how you'd play them live and the snare will sit right.

Name it in your head

Say the tempo and groove out loud before you count in — it lands on the recording and makes takes easy to sort later.