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Old 08-24-2009, 08:06 AM
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Default Re: Drum Miking uestion

I agree. I would start by pulling the mono room mic way down and get the mix of the drums sounding good. The I would use aux sends to a stereo aux track with a good reverb plugin(I like the IK Classik Verb room for this, or TL Space with a nice room convolution). The stereo room verb will help spread the kit and then I will slide the mono room track up to give the kit a bit more focus(assuming it sounds good). Remember, as cool as panning is, it can also get unrealistic. If you imagine a stage and spread your drums out too far, its fun, but not real sounding. +1 for experimenting with some limiting on the room mics. Another thing I do a lot is, aux send the drums to a stereo aux track and insert Waves SSL bus compressor(or BF76) and slam the compressor. Then mix that up under the rest of the drums.(other compressor plugins may have latency that causes phasing but these 2 work good for this).
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