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Old 05-20-2011, 10:00 AM
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Default Re: Assuring your drum mics are in phase?

The best thing to do here is to use your ears. Getting a batch of drum mics(or tracks) "in phase" is an exercise in futility as you generally have anywhere from 6 to 14 mics on a kit. They are spread all over a large area. Any 2 mics can only be "in phase" at the exact same distance from a single sound source(like the snare drum) which means that getting 2 mics aligned for the snare drum, will make the same 2 mics NOT aligned for the toms or the hat(or anything else maybe). I'm not saying none of this is worth trying(everything is worth trying to find what works). Just remember that several decades of drum recording was done to analog tape with nothing other than moving mics and trying the 2 polarity settings. Sometimes we tend to over-think stuff If it sounds good, it IS good. If it sounds bad, there are several things I would look at BEFORE nudging tracks. Could be the wrong mic, poor drum tuning, a bad room(poor acoustics)...... or even a drummer with lousy technique
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