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Originally Posted by Jim Williams  That was done back in the 80's here on the left coast. I remember Chad Wackerman had 2 57 elements mounted into the snare drum, with single elements mounted in the toms internally when he toured with Frank Zappa. There were XLR connectors mounted into the sides of the drums for quick set up for live.
Jim Williams
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Those were probebly a May Mic setup.
May (sp?) offered those short little 57s inside snares, toms and kicks of many upscale drumkits... maybe it was the upsacale drum makers that offered the is a better way to put it.They were quality designed and built, but...
Other than the internally mounted kick mic THEY SOUND LIKE S H I T!!!!
I had to contend with them in many a live situation back during their heyday in the '80s. There is/was ZERO chance I'd use them in the studio although I have used the internally mounted D112 a top studio drummer I use has in a few of his kick drums.
The problem is that the sound inside the drum has nothing to do with what a drum sounds like outside of the shell! In fact, quite often the drummer would be an opening act and there was no time to screw around with EQ to get them close to decent drum sound. You get isolation (maybe good... maybe bad) but the sound is AWFULL! The snare sounds the worst!
Of all of the Zappa drummers I knida' think Chad had the weakest sound. Being a certified Zappa nut, I never liked Zappa's later drum sounds. the Synclavier stuff is mighty cool, but the later kits never worked for me. Chad is a great technitian however.
Dnny Brown