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Originally Posted by willerichey  I have never understood why you mic the bottom of a snare. One time I compressed th shit out of the bottom mic and applied reverb to a separate bus, but the bottom mic was barely in the mix and I feel that the crack in the OH's were probably sufficient enough already.
Can anyone enlighten me on when a bottom Snare Mic might be appropriate? |
one reason would be if you were using alot of room mic in your mix and wanted to put back some snare. Usually if you mic the snare the way that they tell you to in the audio rags, and point the top mic down on an angle towards and in an inch you get alot of the sound of the top head and NOT alot of snares, so using an under the snare mic would help with that. Another would be you want to get some more top and snares no matter what technique you miced the drum with. For me I hate that under the snare sound,
I get a much more usable sound by micing the shell and by using a different approach towards micing the top