I am looking into getting some drum mics for both live and studio. We do play a lot of styles of music from straight worship to Heavy Metal. Our main style is Metal though. Because of this I want to get the appropriate mics to get that metal sound. Good high-mids on the kick, nice pop in the snare, lows in the toms... What is your experience with these mics?

I just recorded drums and there is a weird ominous ambience in the background in some parts of the song. Can anyone tell me what it may be?:eek:

Hi, I'm just starting out recording and have and idea of what I would like to do, but am not sure how to got about it.

Im an audio/video student in northern illinois, my band is tracking drums for our demo and I just wanted to see what kind of advice everyone could throw at me. I plan to close mic toms/snare/kick (2 mics on kick, a bd mic near the outer rI'm and an sm57 near the beaters to get the "click" that us metalheads love) and then doing x-y Micing for the overheads.

Hi guys, at our school we do quite a few musicals, sometimes a couple a year. The way we always stage them is to use the hall floor for the actors to perform on (ie. it is performed 'in the round') and the band go on the stage.

Hey guys,

Hi! Im new around here.

Audix make excellent affordable mics. To help the newbies, here are a good group of videos on Micing up drums >

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Hey everyone, I'm hoping to gain some insight into how the pro's go about recording multiple takes of drums and compiling them into one good complete take. I'm managing to do it in Cubase SX3 but the process is somewhat complicated - more so that I think it should be. This is my current workflow: