Choices for room mics

[Poopypants]

Originally Posted by TornadoTed

Well it's a cliche in the sense that there are a million posts on here that basically say 'it's not what you got it's what you do with it'

DOH! Oh, THAT cliche.... I thought you were saying that people often suggest that room mics in particular don't need to be that good...

Originally Posted by TornadoTed

I find the choice of mics less important because I tend to EQ and compress them quite radically compared to other parts of the drum kit. I do mainly rock and of course this wouldn't be the case if you were recording jazz, acoustic or any other style where realism was important. So I will take my statement back to a degree

OK. I think I understand. And I understand the compression on the room mics for rock vs other styles.