compasspnt wrote on Tue, 09 February 2010 06:25 |
If you want information regarding "bottom" snare mics, it should come from someone else, because I do not like them.
The best snare mic is one backed away from the snare...the farther back you get, the better the snare can sound. But of course, then the more the other drums will blend into that one mic.
Many, including me, like to use one (or maybe two) mics on *the drum kit*...this includes the snare of course. But the drummer will have to be good enough to balance the kit.
I was referring to using the pencil condenser as a (fairly at least) close snare mic on the top side, in the oft-used individual drum mic'ing technique.
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You know, I recall a session I assisted on once... Bud of mine was the drummer. Got his kit all set up, the engineer miked it all up, and then put a Beta58 on a boom for him to have a talkback mic. It was positioned such that it pointed at him and if he wanted to talk, he could lean over to it. We started tracking, and I was like, "Man, that's a badass snare sound! ...Why is it louder than other stuff? Oh, the talkback mic is on." So we muted it (wasn't going to tape or anything). Badass snare sound? Gone. I forget what we had up close on the snare, but had we not been suffering rectal-cranial integration, we'd have put that talkback mic to tape!
I really oughta try that again...