| Thanks for all your replies to my original post.
Going back to the original string/mic position issue I was trying to understand:
I position my snare to the left of my kick. This limits the arc width (from left to right). If the snare was positioned directly in front of the kick I'd have more 'width' to play with. But my available arc is more diagonal to the kit.
What this means is if I have a mic over my right shoulder, the other mic has to go almost directly over the snare, but slightly to the snare's right. ie both mics are over to the right.
It's impossible for me to have one mic left and the other mic right, and satisfy the recorderman rules.
....Because my snare is over to the left of the kick.
I've tried this a number of times now. With a kit, string and mics.
Please try this yourselves. Position the snare to the left of the kick, but in front of the kick - the usual postion - and check the available arc.
if you can find two points that are both behind, and to the left and right of the drummer, as far as I can tell you must be defying the laws of geometry.
The arc swings diagonally from behind right to front left, and vice versa.
But it won't swing from behind right to behind left.
But perhaps it's not meant to do that...? |