Use the Drums 5pc icon when the drum kit has to be unambiguous on the page. It anchors the plot and drives the largest single block of channels on the input list, and nobody reading the plot has to guess what the shape is meant to be.
Drag it onto the canvas, resize it, rename the label, and it lands in the exported PDF exactly where you left it.
Where it sits on the deck changes how the rest of the plot reads. Kits sit upstage centre on a riser wherever possible, so the drummer plays behind the vocal line and sits above the sightline of the front row. Snap the icon to the grid and the distances stay believable on a printed page.
Say this part explicitly. Say whether the kit is supplied and give the kick size. Mic choice, riser depth, and shield height all follow from that one answer.
As a full kit, Drums 5pc expands into 9 microphone channels on the input list: Kick Drum, Snare Top, Snare Bottom, Hi-Hat, Rack Tom 1, Rack Tom 2, Floor Tom, Overhead L and Overhead R. Each row arrives with a sensible mic type, stand, and phantom setting already filled in, and every one of them stays editable. It sorts at position 1 in the drums first, vocals last channel order that front of house engineers expect.
Channel names travel with the plot. Export a scene file for an X32, M32, or Wing, or a channel name CSV for dLive, Avantis, SQ, DiGiCo, and Yamaha CL and QL. See the console guides.
More Drum Kits
19 icons share the Drum Kits section of the palette. These are the ones most often placed alongside Drums 5pc.
Anchors the plot and drives the largest single block of channels on the input list is only part of the picture. These icons come from Percussion, Drum Shields and Mics, the sections that most often appear on the same drawing.
