Pictures Of Mic'ed Up Drum Kits In The Studio

[Jason Poulin]

water bottle in front was to capture a lower frequency in the kick by sticking a B52 in a balloon and placing it inside the bottle.































And.... did anyone believe me?

I needed weight in front of the kick so that it wouldn't move forward.

haha

Jason

[GilWave]

Joe Franco, at Jay Beckenstein's Bear Tracks studio in Suffern New York recording the Reel Drums sessions. Microphones courtesy of Kooster McAllister and the Record Plant Remote.

more here: ******//www.reeldrums.com/photos.htm

[toolskid]

I've had fun before WITH a water cooler bottle (empty) with a 58 dangled from a drum stick inside, either infront of the kick - or post recording on the board infront of the nearfields with the kick channel in solo. Either filter to subby resonant foolishness, or let the clang ring true!!!

[maskedman72]

photo of last night's session at the home studio. sounded great!!
the u-195 on front of kit was nice.

[toolskid]

heres one from last week

[toolskid]

and another

[toolskid]

and the last - this place has no mics, hence the se1a on hats which actually was pretty good, and the d112 on kick which worked out ok too, the tamburo drums are very pleasant beasts tho..

[BrianK]

Umm, (truly) sorry to inject something controversial (and unrelated) in here, but Craig Z - that track is pretty great. However, it sounds VERY separated, like ProTools recording. If it was printed to tape, the sounds would mix "together" like classic records do, instead of that separation. True, maybe your taste is different, but the style leads me to believe you love classic players and albums.

As the style is very classic - and very well done - it would seem to be an appropriate way to make it complete... even run a rough mix down to cassette once if you think I'm wrong. See what happens... please?

[lamp]

Spaced pair O/H for me.Equal distance from snare.

[GilWave]

what's with the speaker on the KD?

[lamp]

what's with the speaker on the KD?

******//gearslutz.com/board/showthrea...+mic+questions

scroll down to mwagener.

[GilWave]

thanks. interesting.

[Jason Poulin]

bump


love this thread!

keep posting.


Jason

[bb8690]

Here's my drum kit mic'ed up in my home studio:

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Chris

[bb8690]

Another:

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Chris

[bb8690]

Last one:

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Chris

[rainsinvelvet]

Here's one from a recent album I finished. "heavy" type of band. Came out great!

ERic

[RoundBadge]

[RoundBadge]

[cajonezzz]

Originally Posted by BrianK

Umm, (truly) sorry to inject something controversial (and unrelated) in here, but Craig Z - that track is pretty great. However, it sounds VERY separated, like ProTools recording. If it was printed to tape, the sounds would mix "together" like classic records do, instead of that separation. True, maybe your taste is different, but the style leads me to believe you love classic players and albums.

As the style is very classic - and very well done - it would seem to be an appropriate way to make it complete... even run a rough mix down to cassette once if you think I'm wrong. See what happens... please?

Hey Brian, I just stumbled on this post from what I guess was a while ago....
This was a very quick Mp3 of an unmixed ( faders Up ) tracking session...as you can hear NOTHING was mixed. Probably not any room mics in that as well.... I agree with you tho... and yes, it was tracked directly to Tools.
cz

[alphajerk]

roundbadge... your pics make me want to come work at your place everytime i see it. absolutely STUNNING>

[Drumsound]

Here's a "posed" shot from a recent photo shoot for new studio propaganda.

There would usually be room mics too.

[Drumsound]

Sorry for the size. I'm a total computer moron! If I knew how to resize this I would. Its not that big in Preview.

[SLy_drums]

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Here's the drum micing for a metal band, in my home studio.

Mics are :

Snare :
SM57 (top & bottom)
SM81 (top)

Bass drum :
Beta 91

Toms :
Beta 98 on 10' and 12' toms, Oktava MK012 on 16' tom (my old MD421 doesn't work anymore, and the Oktava did the job perfectly)

OH :
C414 ULS x 2

Hi-hat :
SM81


I'm going to buy some BAE mic pres for proximity mics, and i already run the OH into a Mindprint DTC.
Sounds good, can't wait for the new pres !

I saw all of you use dynamic mics on toms, most of the time MD421s. Why never use condensers (like Beta 98 ) ?
It seems condensers are not as easy to place in a mix as dynamics, maybe this explains a bit ?
As said before, I have an old MD421 U4 (grey tuschel version), which I used to put on the floor tom, but I dunno why it doesn't work. Maybe it's just a insignifiant problem, but I can't fix it (I dunno anything about electronics ). I guess i'm going to sell the mic at a low cost, if someone is interested into repairing it...

[Marcus B]

Ok my turn ... here's a couple of pics from my last session .. and in case you were wondering the placement of the floor tom mic was not where it was placed for tracking had gotten bumped while I was takin' pics

For the interested:

Kick: M88 + U47
Snr Top: SM57 with a C451 taped to it
Snr Bot: C451
Hats: KM84
Toms: KM86i's
Overs: U89's
Room: (in the live space behind kit) pair of 414's in blumlein
Smashed Room: (taped to window behind kit) crown PZM
C0ck Mic: 57 peaking over the kick drum smashed to oblivion with a distressor

pres were API on kick and snr, GML on overs and room, 1272 on snr bot and kick 47, 33115's on the rest - all tracked to 499 2" 30ips

[SLy_drums]

Great gear !
Can we have an audio extract ? thumbsup

[strauss]

Originally Posted by Drumsound

Here's a "posed" shot from a recent photo shoot for new studio propaganda.

There would usually be room mics too.

Are those Nady ribbons you use for OH's?
If so, how do you like them?

[djui5]

Originally Posted by Drumsound

Here's a "posed" shot from a recent photo shoot for new studio propaganda.

There would usually be room mics too.

Here you go. Merry Christmas. You can change your attachment to the resized picture if you edit your post.

[Dangerous Dave]

Originally Posted by cajonezzz

and the mp:

I never really read this thread before now...

and...

WOW, and Double WOW that's some playing cajonezzz bro'

Nice work....

[Drumsound]

Originally Posted by strauss

Are those Nady ribbons you use for OH's?
If so, how do you like them?

Yes and no. They are the Tape Op group buy ribbons. Same mics different name. A group of us on the Tape Op board got together with PPA and got a really good deal on a pair. They're pretty cool, but I haven't used that a ton yet. I did an acoustic guitar/vocal record and used them as room mics and they were great.

Here's a sample of them as OH spaced similar to the picture. No other mics, just OH from that week I got them.

Also check out Shiny Box they are importing them too. They've even got a 'custon' transformer upgrade and a smaller mic.

Thanks for the re-size Djui5!