From the course: Drum Setup and Mic'ing in the Studio

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Placing a variety of room mics

Placing a variety of room mics

From the course: Drum Setup and Mic'ing in the Studio

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Placing a variety of room mics

- When you walk into the room and the drummer's playing, it sounds huge. It's loud, it's exciting, it's bombastic, and we want to capture that as part of our sound. So we gotta put room mics out. Now there's a million ways to do this. Again, some of the ways I like to do it is to put out a 57 facing away from the drum kit. And the reason I got to this is that when I'm tracking a live band, the guitar player needs a talk back mic so I can hear him make commentary on the song and we can have a conversation. The bass player needs one, the keyboard player needs one. Nine times out of 10, those mics sound great, and they're just utility mics, something you have in your mic closet that you're not using that you give to the guy to hear him talk. So the cool thing about these mics is that they're capturing an indirect sound of the drum kit. So the drums are coming at us this way, they're bouncing around the room, and then into this microphone. So it gives us a real ambient sound, and because…

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