Davedog
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Love me some bubinga .....
It sounds amazing. Hendrix hit the ball out of the park. The Paiste big beat cymbals are nice too.Love me some bubinga .....
Great looking forward to hearing it!The final piece of the recording puzzle has arrived.
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Great !!! hope you will post some samples !!The final piece of the recording puzzle has arrived.
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Too busy playing live on Jamulus at the moment. Getting compliments on how they sound, so that’s good.Great !!! hope you will post some samples !!
Tony - do you find the latency on Jamulus acceptable? What bandwidth line do you have?Too busy playing live on Jamulus at the moment. Getting compliments on how they sound, so that’s good.
I get between 15 and 40 ms bottom being local. I played 3 hours today with guys from Italy France and Germany and Netherlands in real time. If you know the right settings it’s work acceptably most times. It wobbles a little bit occasionally. I’m on Virgin Media gigabit 1 down 50mbit up. I have 900kbs in Jamulus on my settings.Tony - do you find the latency on Jamulus acceptable? What bandwidth line do you have?
At one studio, I use a pair of SM81 mics. It's my impression that the diaphragm is pretty much right behind the grille, so I position them for optimum coincidence with that in mind.The final piece of the recording puzzle has arrived.
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I’ve recorded a brief take after setting up the NT55s. Waves looked healthy and take was good. I’m running them on mono each at hard panned with the omni heads in. They sound amazing. Just the right height too to grab the kit without making the spread of stereo too much. I just have the HPF at 75hz. Keeping the bass drum mostly out.At one studio, I use a pair of SM81 mics. It's my impression that the diaphragm is pretty much right behind the grille, so I position them for optimum coincidence with that in mind.
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If they're in omni, coincident placement probably won't produce much if any stereo spread. The whole point of XY is to use the cardioid pattern to produce separation between left and right. If you want stereo from a pair of omnidirectional mics, it needs to be a spaced pair to get some difference in arrival time or levels. Also, omni mics will pick up more reflection from a low ceiling.I’ve recorded a brief take after setting up the NT55s. Waves looked healthy and take was good. I’m running them on mono each at hard panned with the omni heads in. They sound amazing. Just the right height too to grab the kit without making the spread of stereo too much. I just have the HPF at 75hz. Keeping the bass drum mostly out.
If they're in omni, coincident placement probably won't produce much if any stereo spread. The whole point of XY is to use the cardioid pattern to produce separation between left and right. If you want stereo from a pair of omnidirectional mics, it needs to be a spaced pair to get some difference in arrival time or levels. Also, omni mics will pick up more reflection from a low ceiling.
Yep, I did that I read how that works. I’m not finished but I think that was a reasonable first try. Biggest thing is the only monitoring I have currently in drum room is IEMs. I do have a pair of KRK 5 mk3s in there I can hook up though to test more in room.It's definitely stereo now.
One thing I do is twist the XY at a funny angle to put the snare dead center in the image. Sometimes what looks right and what sounds right are different things.
That's an interesting approach, ive always used the OH and Kick as the primary drum sound with close mics filling them in. Although ive done live gigs with no overheads, and the room does make a difference. Ive gotten some surprisingly good (to me) drum sounds with just a kick mic and an sm57 on overhead in medium size practice rooms.That's certainly a promising start.
It's hard to judge just from OHs, as they are the glue that hold the other drum mics together, and don't necessarily sound good on their own unless you have spectacular acoustics. Did you record the kick and snare as well on that take?