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Originally Posted by HeavyG  I would say the following items are your critical success factors for good drum tone (somewhat in order of importance):
1. Mic Placement
2. Drummer (control of dynamics)
3. Mic Type (model, etc)
4. Drums (tuning, heads, brand, wood,etc)
5. Mic Preamp
6. Room
It sounds like you are asking if there is something you should put in your chain between the mics and your preamp/interface. I don't believe this would help you...you want to record as dry as possible. You can do all your sound palette manipulation post production in Logic. Look at improving your techniques in the first four success factors and your drum tone chops will take a quantum leap... |
No way preamp should be before room. A crap room will ruin the drum sound even if you were using the best preamps in the world.