High cymbals is bad setup and technique practice. Usually n00b drummers have their cymbals insanely high, where seasoned drummers who know their shit have their cymbals low. If you can't record a good sound with low cymbals, something is wrong with you.
haha im going agree. Luckily the bands i've been workign with for the most part are incredible mucisians. so i've been very blessed haha
and yea i know how the set up goes, and i agree 100% though. about 5 or 6 sessions ago i did this one band that the recording could have bene so much better but the drummer had noc lue what he was doing. he couldnt play to a click, he could play.... his durms were tunned to shit and heads were shit, so me tunning them didnt even matter, and his cymbals were crap. so i was really not veyr impressed with hwo it came out...
funniest part is, after recording them they come to me and realize "the recording was recorded about 3 times too slow"
i saw a live video.... well lets just say the live video was abut 3:30 seconds.... the recording was about 4:20 seconds!
haha
but yea, im definately including tunning the drums, get new heads, the standard mics [ie: sm57, d6/beta52a/d112, e604, c 1000 s], im going to discuss the angles to put the mics at and how much of a difference it will make if placed in different ways [such as top/bottom], ambience/room mics, im going to discuss recording on a click, and im going to discuss triggering and im also going to tell some tricks about getting your drums to souinds better [ie: pillow inside drum....etc]
does anyone have different mics that work well? thats basically what i was curious of. i want to tell the standard mics, then some other good ones.