| My approach has always been to use my overheads to capture a natural balance and image of the entire kit. In the past it was a single Royer SF12 directly over the snare about 6 ft. off the ground. I would typically pull out some honk at 500Hz and then shelf boost above 5kHz.
Now I'm doing a mono overhead using a tube condenser above the floor tom aiming at the snare and rack tom.
Lately I've been really trying to minimize the number of mics while maximizing the results, especially since I'm taking a long hiatus from big rock productions and instead working within the limitations of 1" 8-track tape. My goal is to get down to just a kick and one overhead.
Brad |