From the course: Live Sound Engineering Techniques: On Tour with Rush

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Placing microphones on Neil Peart's drums and the rotating riser

Placing microphones on Neil Peart's drums and the rotating riser

From the course: Live Sound Engineering Techniques: On Tour with Rush

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Placing microphones on Neil Peart's drums and the rotating riser

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Here we are at Neil Peart's drum set. It is obviously not your standard drum set that you would walk down to Long & McQuade in Toronto and buy in 1974. It is custom-made DW. It's made for him to his specifications. 23-inch kick drum. 14-inch snare drum. An 8, a 10, a 12 and a 14 tom. A 15, a 16, another 16 that's a little bit deeper, and an 18 inch tom. There's a piccolo snare over here that's a 12 by three, and he's got varying cymbals that you can see. One of the issues about this kit is because it's so tight, it's not very easy to mic. So We've slid a little Audio Technica ATM25E for the snare top, we have an Audio Technica AD3000 on the bottom snare, which is way underneath here. One of the hardest problems with this drum kit is that it is almost impossible to get a microphone in a proper position on a hi-hat. We solve this through the ATM 450, which is a side address mic. So you're not pointing it, it's act, it's actually trying to read from the side. Which made it easy for us to…

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