[Matt Hepworth]

Originally Posted by Benmrx

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 just used a very-similar-to-this technique on a very metal setup with quad tracked metal guitars - turned out great.

Did it on one Slipknot-esque group recently, too.

I did just over two drum sticks above the snare. I made sure they were both equidistant from the snare. Kicks were not perfect, but I roll out a lot of lows on the overheads typically on that kind of sound.