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Jazz Noise · 23rd July 2012

LDC's can sound great on Toms, try a Mono OH style setup sitting above the front of the kit. Pair that with a nice XY or spaced pair and you can get a really good representation of the kit. I recently was doing pre-production for the band and got a pretty good kit sound with just a single RM700 as my OH and an Opus 99 for the kick drum. A little high shelf and it was good to go!

Do not attempt to compress unless you have a decent monitoring setup. A limiter can help to prevent clipping should something happen, but always be conservative with gainstaging for drums - I often leave 12 or more dB for when the drummer REALLY warms up.

Borrow decent headphones, listen between takes - do short bursts until you think you're happy with the sound. Record. Stop. Listen. Adjust. Record. Stop. Listen. Repeat until you're happy.

23rd July 2012	#2
Jazz Noise Would-Be-Teaboy Joined: Oct 2011 Location: Ireland Posts: 875	LDC's can sound great on Toms, try a Mono OH style setup sitting above the front of the kit. Pair that with a nice XY or spaced pair and you can get a really good representation of the kit. I recently was doing pre-production for the band and got a pretty good kit sound with just a single RM700 as my OH and an Opus 99 for the kick drum. A little high shelf and it was good to go! Do not attempt to compress unless you have a decent monitoring setup. A limiter can help to prevent clipping should something happen, but always be conservative with gainstaging for drums - I often leave 12 or more dB for when the drummer REALLY warms up. Borrow decent headphones, listen between takes - do short bursts until you think you're happy with the sound. Record. Stop. Listen. Adjust. Record. Stop. Listen. Repeat until you're happy. __________________ Why don't you just knock it off with them negative waves?