AEA R88 drum sound

[Faderix]

I just bought the AEA R88 and seams I will use it mostly for overheads. To my ears it's so balanced and the transient response and stereo image is amazing. I used couple of db's around 12Khz and cut 2 db's around 300Khz. That's all. I would love some comments from you guys.


R88_Overhead.mp3

R88_All_Mics_In.mp3

[claend]

Sounds really great!

BTW, which HH are being used? Sound like money!

[Faderix]

It's an old Pearl TC4-V. I use it in Fig8, pointing it straight down to the HH.
The best way I found so far to get less bleed from the rest of the kit.

[claend]

Thanks Faderix, but I was actually wondering about the cymbals themselves . Which kind os HH did you mount in this particular occasion?

[Faderix]

I understand. Sorry. It's a 15" Sabian Manhattan Jazz.

[JulianFernandez]

Yeah! Sounds slick!

[nomatic]

Very nice work!

And I am a crusty bastard.............

So I don't say that very often!

I think I will have to get one of these.

[funka]

While you say "all mics in", could you tell us more about these mics please?
It's sounds cool indeed, nice drummer feeling too.

[Faderix]

Originally Posted by funka

While you say "all mics in", could you tell us more about these mics please?
It's sounds cool indeed, nice drummer feeling too.

Sure! Thank's.

Snare: Beyer M88TG and Audix i5,
Toms: Cad 179
Kick: Heil PR48
Room: Pear ST-8

Hope this helps.

[funka]

Ok, thanks for the details.

[PDC]

Man I love the 88 and the drum sounds.

[Ryan Earnhardt]

What kind of distance was the R88 from the kit?
Also, for snare how did you use the M88?
Perhaps I overlooked this, I assume you used the R88 in
the Blumlein configuration vs the Mid Side configuration?

Love that kick sound by the way.

I also have an R88 and I love to use it for anything I can think of. I often use it in mono mode, or in MS too. I go back and forth, depending on how even the low end is between the channels.

Let me know when you try it on acoustic guitar. It'll really amaze you. I like to point the AEA label at the guitar hole so that each ribbon shoots at either the bridge or the 12'th fret. I can find some samples if need be. It's really something. I didn't realize how quick this mic was until I recorded acoustic with it.

[thepilgrimsdream]

man, love the sound of those. what pre are you using?

I use rca 77d's as my drum overheads. always have to cut a lot around 2k. but love the smoothness.

[Faderix]

Originally Posted by Ryan Earnhardt

What kind of distance was the R88 from the kit?
Also, for snare how did you use the M88?
Perhaps I overlooked this, I assume you used the R88 in
the Blumlein configuration vs the Mid Side configuration?

Love that kick sound by the way.

I also have an R88 and I love to use it for anything I can think of. I often use it in mono mode, or in MS too. I go back and forth, depending on how even the low end is between the channels.

Let me know when you try it on acoustic guitar. It'll really amaze you. I like to point the AEA label at the guitar hole so that each ribbon shoots at either the bridge or the 12'th fret. I can find some samples if need be. It's really something. I didn't realize how quick this mic was until I recorded acoustic with it.

It's just above my head behind my left ear, pointing it down to the snare. It's in blumline. I will deffenitely try it on guitar. Sounds very interesting.

[Faderix]

Originally Posted by thepilgrimsdream

man, love the sound of those. what pre are you using?

I use rca 77d's as my drum overheads. always have to cut a lot around 2k. but love the smoothness.

I would love to try these rca's. I can imagine they are super smooth?

I used VP26 preamps but I just started to use my Earthworks preamps and thought that was a killer for the mic. You get so much details and transient responses in Earthworks. Combined with the smoothness from the R88, I thought it just sounded great.