Hello everyone,
I've been having difficulty miking my drum kit for live performances. I'm sure that many of you are familiar with the concept, but my buddy and I are working together in a DJ/Drummer combo; the DJ spins and the drummer layers drums over the tracks. For the most part, everything has been going great, we really enjoy our material thus far and we've had some success recording, however we've been having trouble with the EQ when we play live. Its really hard to get the drums to have a presence live; the drums never really seem to "bump" when running out of our sound system, they get even more drowned out when the DJ starts spinning. I'm running a total of 5 mics on the kit with a behringer mixer, shure sm57s on the snare and the 3 toms and a beta 52a on the kick, we don't have any overheads. For sound, we use two QSC HPR 15" subs and two JBL PRX 3-ways. To be completely honest, we're not really sure what we're doing when we're miking the kit/EQing, we just put on some headphones and tamper with the mixer until we get the sound we're looking for out of the drums. As hinted upon above, however, our biggest problem is just making the drums loud enough, I feel like our sound system is big enough, but we're just doing something wrong. Should we just try gaining everything through the roof? I'm not really sure what to do, any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for reading my post, I'll try and post pictures of my mixer settings.
Mixer Settings:
We use a "pitch and reverb" effect on the mixer.
Pictures coming soon
I've been having difficulty miking my drum kit for live performances. I'm sure that many of you are familiar with the concept, but my buddy and I are working together in a DJ/Drummer combo; the DJ spins and the drummer layers drums over the tracks. For the most part, everything has been going great, we really enjoy our material thus far and we've had some success recording, however we've been having trouble with the EQ when we play live. Its really hard to get the drums to have a presence live; the drums never really seem to "bump" when running out of our sound system, they get even more drowned out when the DJ starts spinning. I'm running a total of 5 mics on the kit with a behringer mixer, shure sm57s on the snare and the 3 toms and a beta 52a on the kick, we don't have any overheads. For sound, we use two QSC HPR 15" subs and two JBL PRX 3-ways. To be completely honest, we're not really sure what we're doing when we're miking the kit/EQing, we just put on some headphones and tamper with the mixer until we get the sound we're looking for out of the drums. As hinted upon above, however, our biggest problem is just making the drums loud enough, I feel like our sound system is big enough, but we're just doing something wrong. Should we just try gaining everything through the roof? I'm not really sure what to do, any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for reading my post, I'll try and post pictures of my mixer settings.
Mixer Settings:
We use a "pitch and reverb" effect on the mixer.
Pictures coming soon
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