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Old 3rd July 2009   #11
jinksdingo
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Family room with no treatment the fewer mics the better.

Set your drums up where they sound the best in the room .

Set up two room condensor mics; one up left behind drummer, the other right of snare and hats but out in front several feet not too high up.

Set up so kit sounds correct in stereo and you got a good balance (not where the mic looks like it should go) and perhaps a tweak on the kit here and there, Oh and check the phase all the time reversing one of the two to check for magic.

You'll be surprised at how good this can get. Depends on what genre your doing though.

Throw a few more mics up if you got them. Kick, snare but get those two room mics sounding perfect first then add the others in checking phase reversal and if the sound gets weak leave it out.

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