Mono Drum Room Mic

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Mono drum room mic.

Drum room mic techniques. The video is divided into four parts. First off i do not have matching condensors. This placement offers a different kind of natural representation of the kit this time favoring the kick over the snare.

Joel wanasek gives us the low down on mixing with a mono drum room mic and how to get interesting mixing options with it. This video shows the different sounds you can get from drum room mics by changing several variables. Start the same rough distance from the snare but with the mic facing the space just above the kick. Part 1 is a basic.

Place an sf 12 or sf 24 over the kit and an r 121 or r 122 about 1 foot off the front kick drum head angled 45 degrees toward the drum this protects the ribbon elementand reduces kit bleed into the kick drum mic. Placed tight on the shells. I recorded a demo with an unmatched pair of neumanns and i ran them as stereo overhead room mics about 3 above the drums and about 5 in front of them. Sm57 on the wall.

Adjust positions of the two mics for desired ratio of kit to room sound. I m wanting to track with 4 6 mics. Get instant access to these multi tracks and joel wanasek s full mixing. Just wondering why i hear people talk about mono room mics on drums every single time i try to use a mono drum room mic track with the rest of the drums closed mic ed and stereo overheads when i blend in the room mic panned in the center it smears the stereo image quite vastly.