sennheiser e608 on the snare, audix d6 in the bass drum (muffled for neighbor happiness factor, i prefer it empty), AKG d112 on low tom, shure 52 on high tom, shure unisphere on cowbell.
the snare mic is about 3/4" away from the snare, but not over the air hole.
no overheads or cymbal mics.
this is what it sounds like, live from practice on monday (but very compressed)
ahhh duhh... I see it now. (I WAS LOOKING ON THE RIGHT!@!! hah)
That's cool. That mic... I have a buddy that uses those on guitar cabs live...they are cute mics!!
I mic my snare parallel to the rim.. I don't point it down at the head, but rather have the capsule axis perpendicular to the rim. Using a beta 57. I like to use another phase corrected mic on the bottom of the snare too, although I've never done that with SF stuff, only when my buddy (teh one with the same mic as you) mics and records my kit. It gives it that extra bit of papery, yet trebly crispness (hopefully used the right adjectives there to explain).
This technique was disussed a bit in gertland, I had no idea what was being asked, thanks for the photo, that clarifies it better.
I like the way that sounds. A question though... is that a wood snare or chrome? I can't tell in the picture, it sounds very warm for a metal drum.
I'd like to hear it without the too loud guitar. Sounds nice though, you get the impact of the snare with a airy snare sound from the bottom head... funny, cause that's the sound I was trying to describe with the top mic, bottom phase corrected mic technique... yet you only have 1 mic there!
Leaf wrote: that's the sound I was trying to describe with the top mic, bottom phase corrected mic technique... yet you only have 1 mic there!
exactly.. that's why i was so suprised when i first tried this on a whim. you don't get the nasty ring off the top head, and the snares come through real nice.
it is a bottom-of-the-barrel 80's craptastic Tama kit, with 20 year old top heads and no bottoms. i think it's a rockstar or whatever the starter kit model was back then. chrome snare, tuned up pretty high.
it's a borrowed kit that's in the rock room and it has the booty sound, so we use it.
I'm mostly curious about what appears to be an antique mixer in the upper right hand corner of Blue's picture. It looks like it has big 1" knobs and no faders, not to mention 1/4 " inputs. And what is that white thing sitting on top of it next to Ukelele box? A space heater?
Dan-O from Five-O wrote:I'm mostly curious about what appears to be an antique mixer in the upper right hand corner of Blue's picture. It looks like it has big 1" knobs and no faders, not to mention 1/4 " inputs. And what is that white thing sitting on top of it next to Ukelele box? A space heater?
WTF?
yeah, it's a sweet old 70's shure mixer that we use for vox. it has a great sound, distorts really nicely. we take it with us to gigs. yes, it is a space heater. it gets cold in there in the winter.
