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Old 24th August 2007   #12
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Here's a sample of Peter Brötzmann with drummer Zlatko Kaucic from Slovenija. The disc is called Tolminski punt and it is out on Splasch records in Italy...
www.satoration.org/audio/tolminski/tolminski1.mp3

He is loud, so the advice about dynamic is not so out off line - you might catch some more "warm agression"... Ambient mics should take care about him moving around and some compression on the close mic (in my case EV RE20)...
For the drummer try to keep it simple as you said you will - Paal is really energetic and loud - Quality overheads - maybe apply some tasteful compression on them, snare mic, kick mic (we used RE20 on Zlatko's small jazz kick), and another pair of "underheads" - we used a pair of AKG 414 positioned beside the toms - not above the skin - but pointing towards the wood of the drum - to get more "meat" of the toms - otherwise the drums were to "washy" for the tight free jazzing thing...
One pair of ambient mics was ok - some custom tube stereo pair... Jazzers usually don't like as much reverb and ambient as classical.

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