Room mic strategies/techniques...?

Worlez · 12th March 2007, 01:58 PM

I'd like to start a discussion on how you slutz are using room and ambience mics when you record drums. The studio I work in has a 1000sqft live room with 9ft ceilings, carpeted, with painted plasterboard walls and a drum trap with 8ft baffles and dampened ceiling, adjoining a 500sqft stone room. I've been experimenting with room mics in different places and configurations lately, and I want to hear how other people would (and do) go about using them.

Cheers

Al

Worlez · 14th March 2007, 01:32 AM

Bump

Al

scrubs · 14th March 2007, 01:58 AM

Walk around the room while the drummer plays and find a spot that sounds good. Put a mic there.

Led · 14th March 2007, 02:22 AM

What he said, but block one ear if your placing a single mic. A hypercardioid by the kit with a baffle in between it and the kit with the mic pointing away from the kit is good in smaller rooms.

stevep · 14th March 2007, 03:17 AM

For most sessions i use 3 room mics,

One is in front of the kit at about waist height U87 or LDC Tube mic

the other 2 are as far as i can get them away and usually facing the wall, SDCs, U87s or other LDCs even 57s

Have fun and experiment

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12th March 2007, 01:58 PM	#1
Worlez Gear maniac Join Date: May 2006 Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 224	Room mic strategies/techniques...? I'd like to start a discussion on how you slutz are using room and ambience mics when you record drums. The studio I work in has a 1000sqft live room with 9ft ceilings, carpeted, with painted plasterboard walls and a drum trap with 8ft baffles and dampened ceiling, adjoining a 500sqft stone room. I've been experimenting with room mics in different places and configurations lately, and I want to hear how other people would (and do) go about using them. Cheers Al

14th March 2007, 02:22 AM	#4
Led Lives for gear Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 1,832	What he said, but block one ear if your placing a single mic. A hypercardioid by the kit with a baffle in between it and the kit with the mic pointing away from the kit is good in smaller rooms. __________________ "My voice has a built in extortion box" - recent vocalist I recorded...

14th March 2007, 03:17 AM	#5
stevep Lives for Jesus Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: orange county ca. Posts: 2,938	For most sessions i use 3 room mics, One is in front of the kit at about waist height U87 or LDC Tube mic the other 2 are as far as i can get them away and usually facing the wall, SDCs, U87s or other LDCs even 57s Have fun and experiment __________________ Steve Perkins Creation Recording Studios .com Take a Kid Fishing Outreach John 3:16

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14th March 2007, 01:32 AM	#2
Worlez Gear maniac Join Date: May 2006 Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 224	Bump Al

14th March 2007, 01:58 AM	#3
scrubs Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: NC Posts: 348	Walk around the room while the drummer plays and find a spot that sounds good. Put a mic there.