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Old 2nd March 2004   #9
Jules
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Close mic's are your friend, room mic in sh!t rooms need MAJOR surgery to become even SLIGHTLY useable IMHO.

For me, distance is key, a mic inside an overturned bucket in a far coner can be better than one out in the room...

A mic just outside the drum booth door, equed & compressed can ALSO sound better than a mic inside the room.

My tip is to scheme on how to falcely generate 'distance' somehow, point mic's AWAY from the drums in far corners....

In one large room I used to use in London, I disliked the sound, so I tossed eiderdowns (duvets) over the track lighting rails to try to cut down on the sound bouncing around... it worked...

.....my 2 euro cents
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