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Originally Posted by john caldwell
I wish my room were a little better to afford that approach, Dirk. You may be familiar with the Talk Talk record called Laughing Stock in which truly glorious drum sounds are achived with a single distant LD condenser.
My room isn't that great at all, but with a R-121 about 5 feet from the kit, heavy compressed with a Distressor in nuke mode and some serious eq-ing, it gives me exactly the gell and room sound I need to make a nice mono image of the drums together with the close kick and snare mic's.
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A question please: When you refer to in & out kick mics, is your outside mic a front-of-drum unit placed at several feet for LF capture, or are you using a mic on the beater head for attack as your outside mic?
in: mostly D112 in the middle of the drum pointing at where the beater hits the head
out: something like 1-2 foot outside the kick, sometimes with a tunnel, to get some space around the kick. I use a Little Labs IBP on the inner mic to get the lowend phase the way I like it (not necessarily the most "in-phase" sound). Sometimes I key gate the outside mic from the inside, sometimes I roll of all highs to just get a kind of low end boom... Sometimes I leave the highs in to get some more definition, all depends on what's happening in the mix.
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If it ever amuses you, I'd love to hear a full kit mix of the sample you posted above or even just a room mic of the session. Did you record only the snare mics or did you have some other channels open at the time?
I did not record any other mic's with those snare samples. I do have full kit samples with the mic's like I described, but without close toms, so the toms aren't full enough... I'll see if I can find something suitable to post. Problem is, I was just bashing away and the drumming sounds like ass

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Best wishes,
John-
Greetings,
Dirk