jordy
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- Joined
- Aug 25, 2008
- Location
- Reedsville, PA
hola.
ok so i finally got everything i need (atleast the basics) to tackle the challenge of recording drums from my basement.- i have alot of furniture, so the room doesn't sound too shabby for a baement.
i have an interface that can record 6 simult. ins and i just bought another large diaphram condenser mic.- now i know the preffered method for overheads would be using small diaphrams, but my budget could only handle buying another chinese $100 large diaphram condenser. so i now have 2 large diaphrams (different brands- an AKG Peception 100 and a Sterling Audio ST51) that i'm using as over heads, a peavey bass drum mic, a sure beta 58 on the snare and peavey drum mics on the top tom and fl. tom. the set is my dad's old Ludwig from the 70's.
anyways, for my question,- while purchasing my new condenser at guitar center, i told the sales dude my situation and he informed me that he swears by using only large condensors for his overheads at his local studio he engineers at. he then proceeded to give me advice on how to place them- telling me to have them parallel about 3 or so feet apart and facing straight down at the set (parallel to the floor)...umm is this a common practice?
would the xy config. yeild more pleasing or standard results?
i'm definitely going to mess around with the placement until i get something i like. i got alot of work cut out for me in this area. -live drums are all new to me.
i guess i'm just lookin for pointers to get me goin in the right direction. i know that there are no clear cut answers esp. in recording, but i'm looking for typical setups, if you will
thanks a whole bunch!
-jordan
ok so i finally got everything i need (atleast the basics) to tackle the challenge of recording drums from my basement.- i have alot of furniture, so the room doesn't sound too shabby for a baement.
i have an interface that can record 6 simult. ins and i just bought another large diaphram condenser mic.- now i know the preffered method for overheads would be using small diaphrams, but my budget could only handle buying another chinese $100 large diaphram condenser. so i now have 2 large diaphrams (different brands- an AKG Peception 100 and a Sterling Audio ST51) that i'm using as over heads, a peavey bass drum mic, a sure beta 58 on the snare and peavey drum mics on the top tom and fl. tom. the set is my dad's old Ludwig from the 70's.
anyways, for my question,- while purchasing my new condenser at guitar center, i told the sales dude my situation and he informed me that he swears by using only large condensors for his overheads at his local studio he engineers at. he then proceeded to give me advice on how to place them- telling me to have them parallel about 3 or so feet apart and facing straight down at the set (parallel to the floor)...umm is this a common practice?
would the xy config. yeild more pleasing or standard results?
i'm definitely going to mess around with the placement until i get something i like. i got alot of work cut out for me in this area. -live drums are all new to me.
i guess i'm just lookin for pointers to get me goin in the right direction. i know that there are no clear cut answers esp. in recording, but i'm looking for typical setups, if you will
thanks a whole bunch!
-jordan