Seriously, I've seen countless articles on proper drum Micing and different techniques, but I feel room mic placement just gets a brief mention most of the time.

I'm lost. I have yet to record a decent room mic track. Most of the time it has an ugly sound (like a gated reverb) or full of cymbals and no punch (needing to EQ to compensate, but it's still far from ideal).

I have an important recording coming up and need to record a full drum kit and rock band live.
I am limited with the amount of tracks and microphones I can use.
I was wondering how important is it to mic up the hihats. I want the most detailed drum sound I can get and am using a full eight tracks on the drum kit alone.

Hi. Has anyone heard of or tried the Alice Mic Pak? It has a very primitive look like the Rane MS-1b but has 75dB of gain!

First of all, I wanted to say that I hope this message finds everyone here doing well and finding plenty of time for recording!

So I was in a bit of a hurry and needed to get a quick demo of a song I had been working on. So I quickly set up my K2 and hit the record button. The song it self is supposed to be a kind of "ghost story" feel. Think Nick Drake and Iron And Wine kind of stuff. So I spent about 5 minutes looking for a decent mic placement. I came across one I truely found remarkable.

What i want to do is spliting the signal from the concert scene.
1 to the FOH mixer and 1 to my stack of MOTU 8Pre's.

I have had little luck finding active/passive mic splitters, but i found this one.

I want to get a condensor mic forunder $1000. The main reason I want to get it is to record rock vocals. And by rock vocals I mean anything from Gregg Allman, to Robert Plant, to Chris Cornell type vocals. I have not been able to capture the essence of the vocals with anything that I have tried so far.

I am utterly baffled.
I have been trying to get some lavalier microphones to work with a standard mixer than accepts an XLR jack.
I have tried 2 different sets of mikes, and 2 different mixers, and I can't seem to get any sound out at all.

Which one is worth to buy and better for recording screaming vocal of Metal?

thanks,
James

I'm faced with the time old question SM57's i have 3 of them i need 5 more is forking out 500 dollars or trying to negotiate price with guitar center the only option i have?

what have other people done when looking for a large quantity of good high impact microphones used mainly for live performance recording?