I have a cocktail drum kit, with a tall, 15" barrel drum that stands upright and serves both as the kick and the floor tom. It has small air holes, but no mic port. The kit sounds great, and I can get a solid one-mic recording from it without problems. But I need to do some multi-mic setups, and wanted some informed opinions about recording the kick. As I see it, there are 3 options based on the standard approach:

[MEDIA=soundcloud]devon-vonmonster/class-warfare-9-24-14[/MEDIA]Another late night of mixing a rock tune in my AT50s. Let me know if I'm getting beefier tones out of my kick and bass. The song has a 1/2 time feel into a "blazing speed" section, so I played with some automation on the gate re: the kicks
Here is "Class Warfare"

I'm thinking to myself how much i hate the snare sound on most recordings. too bright, too snappy, sounds like a tin can.. etc.

so pensados fb page asked about snare mics and one or two people like using kick/bass mics. I'm gonna try it regardless but I'm wondering:

what are your thoughts?
ever done it? over or under?
what were the results?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NNxXYTE8NDE it's crap quality but I'm looking to create this type of kick sound. And no, I don't want to trigger it I want to create it from scratch.

I would like for you guys to check this video out. I'm curious to hear what peoples favorite kick drum mic choices are!

nate

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I have a new project up on Kickstarter . it's a stage lighting app that allows you to project color washes, a spotlight, and special effects using a computer and a projector. Check it out here: http://www.kickstar…"]Fishbowl[/]="http://www.kickstar…"]Fishbowl[/]

Hey guys, thanks for reading.

I have a Beta 52A kick drum mic and a Delta 1010LT interface on my computer.

When I keep the Beta out of the kick hole, it sounds decent and there's no clipping.

But when I put it 2" into the kick hole, this is what happens:
http://www.silveradohome.com/Clipping.jpg
http://www.silveradohome.com/Clipping.wav

I'm looking for a Ludwig kick drum sample 26x14. I recorded one and am not completely happy with the results of the solo kick mic. If anybody has a single hit of a 26x14 kick drum sample/ludwig, I'd really appreciate it. I bought Addictive Drums, but that didn't work too well.

Thanks,
Nate