7-piece Drum Mic Set

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i just bought a 7-piece Drum Mic Set the brand is samson it gots
Seven piece drum mic kit
One Q Kick kick drum mic with mic stand swivel mount
One Q Snare snare mic with rim clip
Three Q Tom tom mics with rim clips
Two C02 pencil condenser mics with shock-mount clips
and im recording some drums but there is a some ringing on some toms while i hit the snare i am using the boss br1600cd and is there a way i can compress or help out the tuning?
 
The ringing from the toms is sympathetic vibration. There is no way to fix this "in the mix." Compression will not get rid of it; in fact, it may worsen it. You will need to tune and/or damp your drums.
 
Put a gate on the tom mics, it should help. But you'll still get the ringing in the overheads. Yeah, retune the drums.
 
I never use "clip-ons" for recording, I feel they can have a dramatic affect on the source. Clip-on mics are ok for live, but IME a no-no for recording, I always use boom stands to isolate the mic from the source. The ringing is most likely a tuning issue, listen closely, do you hear the ringing acousticly? Yup, I thought so....
 
Amped said:
I never use "clip-ons" for recording, I feel they can have a dramatic affect on the source. Clip-on mics are ok for live, but IME a no-no for recording, I always use boom stands to isolate the mic from the source. The ringing is most likely a tuning issue, listen closely, do you hear the ringing acousticly? Yup, I thought so....
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I second the no clips. Big no no.
 
Just mute the tom tracks when the toms aren't being played... problem solved.
 
noiseportrait said:
Just mute the tom tracks when the toms aren't being played... problem solved.
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You will still hear them in the overheads.
 
Another thing, if you want to get the toms out of the overheads, move 'em from the drummer side to the front side of the kit, aimed at the cymbals, and use a high pass filter around the fundamental of the lowest cymbal. Actually I like to cut the low end of the cymbals sometimes anyway.

That's not really a contemporary style of drum miking though. I think of it as more of an '80s style, where drums had a lot of effects & thus isolation was more important.

Don't neglect that drum tuning though.

I don't mind clips so much. I use one mic for two toms, and I can't tell by listening which tom is holding the mic.

Toms are funny, there's a lot of obsession over an instrument that gets used for less than 15 seconds per song.
 
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