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Old 04-02-2011, 11:53 AM
DaneK DaneK is offline
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Default Re: drum miking ideas for >this< kit?

I would suggest a simple Glyn John's method.

57 on the snare up tight
58 on the kick
Solaris set to figure 8 between the floor and rack tom with the kick off axis to reduce leakage
Luna sitting up above the high rack and crash

Be sure to phase align as well. You're going to get lots of leakage with this method and if you want your drums to stay loud and punchy you want to make sure they're not phasing eachother out.

Work in mono and start with the luna and the 58 up while your drummer is hitting the kick. You'll have to sweep one of them around (preferably the 58) then find the punchiest spot (if its out of phase you can hear the low end disappear) open up an 1 band EQ and just keep hitting the phase flop button to give you a hand. If it sounds good out of phase keep it like that and just audiosuite it with the invert. then go to the 57, do the same thing with both the 58 and Luna still up but hitting the snare then the Solaris and repeat the same thing. It should work.

It's going to be a live sounding drum sound but I've been using this technique a lot more than the traditional close mic technique a lot more recently.

Hope that helps!
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