drum micing

some tips for recording a great drum sound ..

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Hi.
I read some forum threads and posts on drum recording. One thing that interests me is FOK Micing (it stands for front of kit, right?). I am definitely gonna try and put one or two mics in front of the kit in addition to the the room mics. I thought it would be cool to get some inspiration on how to set them up from people who are using FOK mics.

Has anyone ever tried putting a heavy weight inside a kick drum (on a pillow) before? I was assisting on a session where a very reputable engineer/producer did this. He said the weight lowers the resonance of the drum and essentially makes the kick sound more tight. The weight also acted as a flat surface to place a Beta 91 inside of the kick.

I recently got some drum tracks sent to me that were done at another studio. To my surpirise they sound great! Each drum was close miked with a room and an over head. Heres my question. . there was only one overhead on a mono track. How would i get my stereo drum sound from just this one mic?

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Me and my band are planning on getting a whole in ear monitoring system and drum mics to run loops and stuff. We already found our stuff for in ears, but I was wondering what could be a good option for the drum mics. I'm only looking for Shure stuff since we're getting a really good discount on them, but I still don't wanna go with the most expensive stuff out there.

okay up until now (the ~5 years ive been home recording) ive always used midi drums, lately DKFH2, and have learned the ins and outs of mixing them to taste, but ive run into a problem. were recording live drums for my bands demo, and have been unsuccessful twice now.

I need advice on Micing drums with only two xlr's. I have the Tascam us122. One mic i want to be on the bass the other as and OH. What mic are good in these aspects? and won't break my pocket. The sound i'm trying to get is a mixture of rap and rock. help please.

I miced a drum kit using a pair of Samson C02 overheads, an SM57 on the snare and an AKG D112 on the kick. The Overheads were ran through a pair of PreSonus tubepres, and the Kick went into an art tube mp preamp. These were then fed into a Fostex VF160EX recorder.

The overall sound was very good. It sounded real, almost live, and went direct with no EQ sounding pretty decent.

I am just wondering what type of mic set up do you prefer for drum overheads..XY, spaced pair..?

I need to know if I'm passing over something silly here that renders this idea entirely useless.

So I need to record some drums. My mixer has 4 mic channels which then runs to my into my 2 ch. interface. (DOH!)

Obviously, 2 channels for drums is pretty...inadequate. So here's what I was thinking.