| This method quickly became my favorite for drums. As long as it's a fairly open song (I.E. not quad tracking metal guitars), and I don't need close mic'd toms.
I find I'm usually about 35" or so from the snare with each mic. The first is pretty much pointed straight down at the snare, or with a heavy hat drummer, maybe tilt the mic so it's slanted away from the hi hats just a bit. The second mic is pretty much right around the drummers right shoulder........or fairly close to it, and aimed more towards the floor tom than anything else, but not by much.
I'll usually have a mic on the top or bottom of the snare, and one on the kick as well as a mono room mic.....which is usually an SM57 or D112 pointed away from the kit, and smashed to hell with a fast compressor......this mic is labled shit drums and doubles as my talk back |