Hi
Next week I'm recording a band I'm producing and I would like some advice for micing the drums, since I have some new/experimental ideas for one of the songs which has a kind of drum n' bass feel in the drums part.
I want to try a splash cymbal lying on the top of the snare drum. A friend of mine does that a lot and I like its sound, I also saw Jojo Mayer using only the ring of a cut cymbal and hitting it like a rim shot (picking cymbal and skin at the same time), that's the most kicking ass snare sound ever, but cutting a cymbal is not an option right now. So I'll try the splash just as it is and the drummer will hit it so the cymbal makes the snare skin vibrate.
I guess for this I will need also a bottom snare mic necessarily.
So the rest of the kit would be:
Kick - Beyer Opus 99
Toms - Electrovoice PL35
Overheads - AKG Perception 170 OR MXL 9090 set in "warm" diaphragm (still not sure if using SDC's or LDC's)
Room/Front - Cascade Fathead II set as Blumlein
I think I'm not using a hi-hat mic since the drummer's left foot is very strong, LOL.
For the snare I have at disposal: Audix i5, Sennheiser e609, Shure c606 (love this cheap dynamic), more spare PL35's, Studio Projects B3 and Røde NT1-A. I won't throw my TLM49 since it has very low SPL capability.
The i5 is a standard for a normal snare top sound, but since it will have a cymbal on the top it will sound very different from a normal snare, so I'm not sure it's so obvious to use this one on top.
I want also to blend a bottom mic so the sound is more balanced between the cymbal and the snare itself.
What are your thoughts on this? What mics would you choose for top and bottom (AMONG THE ONES LISTED HERE) and why? Yet, should I use the SDC's or LDC's as overheads?
I don't want to spend much time testing in the studio, so your inputs here can be very useful.
Thank you very much in advance,
Bryan
Next week I'm recording a band I'm producing and I would like some advice for micing the drums, since I have some new/experimental ideas for one of the songs which has a kind of drum n' bass feel in the drums part.
I want to try a splash cymbal lying on the top of the snare drum. A friend of mine does that a lot and I like its sound, I also saw Jojo Mayer using only the ring of a cut cymbal and hitting it like a rim shot (picking cymbal and skin at the same time), that's the most kicking ass snare sound ever, but cutting a cymbal is not an option right now. So I'll try the splash just as it is and the drummer will hit it so the cymbal makes the snare skin vibrate.
I guess for this I will need also a bottom snare mic necessarily.
So the rest of the kit would be:
Kick - Beyer Opus 99
Toms - Electrovoice PL35
Overheads - AKG Perception 170 OR MXL 9090 set in "warm" diaphragm (still not sure if using SDC's or LDC's)
Room/Front - Cascade Fathead II set as Blumlein
I think I'm not using a hi-hat mic since the drummer's left foot is very strong, LOL.
For the snare I have at disposal: Audix i5, Sennheiser e609, Shure c606 (love this cheap dynamic), more spare PL35's, Studio Projects B3 and Røde NT1-A. I won't throw my TLM49 since it has very low SPL capability.
The i5 is a standard for a normal snare top sound, but since it will have a cymbal on the top it will sound very different from a normal snare, so I'm not sure it's so obvious to use this one on top.
I want also to blend a bottom mic so the sound is more balanced between the cymbal and the snare itself.
What are your thoughts on this? What mics would you choose for top and bottom (AMONG THE ONES LISTED HERE) and why? Yet, should I use the SDC's or LDC's as overheads?
I don't want to spend much time testing in the studio, so your inputs here can be very useful.
Thank you very much in advance,
Bryan