MrKwik
**will man ho for gear**
I have been trying to get a good drum sound using only 2 overheads and close mic on kick & snare. I used recordermans overhead setup and it seems to work pretty good but when I mix my drum tracks in with other instruments, the toms just get lost. Basically the overheads pick up alot more cymbals than toms so I cant raise the overheads without the hats and ride getting really overpowering. I figured I would play with close micing the toms and see what happens. Problem is that that I have more drums than I have inputs on my mixer and soundcard. My mic setup is pretty low end but what I have so far is a 57 on the snare, and PG52 on the kick and a pair of superlux SD condensers that came in this drum mic kit I bought as overheads. The way my kit is set up, I have 8", 10" and 13" rack toms in front with a 16" floor tom on my right and a 14" rack tom to the left of my hi hats. I had 2 snare/tom dynamic mics from the superlux kit that I wasnt using so I put one of those on the 14" and 16" low toms. Now my dilema is that I need to mic the front 3 toms with only 2 mics because thats all the inputs I have left. I have considered 2 diferent options and need to know what would probably work best. First option would be to get 2 more dynamic mics. If I did that, would it be best to put one between the 8-10 pair and one between the 10-13 pair or would it be better to put one on the 13 and one between the 8 annd 10? My other option would be to upgrade my overheads (which I have been considering anyway) and that would leave me with the 2 condensors. Would those work well either on top in the same fashion as the dynamics or out in front of the toms maybe? I figure that they would pick up even more of the cymbals and I would be shooting myself in the foot, but my concern with using dynamics is how well they will pick up the toms being between them rather than pointed at the heads. What would you do?
Here is a pic of my kit for reference
Here is a pic of my kit for reference
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