I worked on this some more last night on my own, and feel much better about it (and the 603 mics)
Thanks to everyone who kept insisting on giving the XY OH's a shot. I LOVE IT. It's easy and it sounds great. Why I even bothered with anything else is beyond me (especially on a "no-frills" kit). The MXL's sound really good now.
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Originally Posted by aermotor
For your room mics put something reflective in the corners of on the walls and face the mics at them maybe 2-3 feet way, that way you'll get a little bit of hard reflections from the drums and it might help the room sound a bit, not sure. |
This worked out great. It took some time getting plywood placed and messing with the mic distance, but it sounds way better. THANKS for the great tip!
I ended up using only 1 room mic, and opted for micing the HH instead. It adds a nice sizzle that's lacking in the OH's.
On a test track of the single room mic, I played around with some delay, panning, and nudging to get a wide stereo field. I think it will work out great.
Thanks to everyone for your help. (This site is really great).
Now comes the hard part - actually getting a good performance to print!
Once everything is tracked, I would love to get some opinions about eq, compression, etc... Any of you slutz willing to mentor a poor soul learning this stuff?
