bubbagump
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It all depnds on how over or under produced you want things to sound... as well as genre. For instance, jazz, I can go two ways. If it is more old school sounding, then three mics and forget it. (OH L/R and maybe kick.) Overly produced elevator or fusion, put a mic on anything that moves and then mic things that don't move for good measure and gate/compress the snot out of it. Same with rock tunes.... New metal... see the over produced jazz example above and maybe add some triggers. Old school punk... maybe just a 57 in the room is enough. It all depends.
For general purpose I go kick (D6), snare (SM7, not 57, maybe an LDC or i5), one on each tom (i5s of late), OH L/R (At4050s... sometimes M/S, somtimes spaced pair), Hats (SM81), and snare bottom (which is only used once in a while... i5, SM57, any old piece of junk laying around.) That's 8 channels for those who are counting. I am half tempted to put another SM81 on the ride to adjust the amount of ping in the mix.
For general purpose I go kick (D6), snare (SM7, not 57, maybe an LDC or i5), one on each tom (i5s of late), OH L/R (At4050s... sometimes M/S, somtimes spaced pair), Hats (SM81), and snare bottom (which is only used once in a while... i5, SM57, any old piece of junk laying around.) That's 8 channels for those who are counting. I am half tempted to put another SM81 on the ride to adjust the amount of ping in the mix.