ADK A51 Mk3 Overhead Samples here

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Hi,
Thought it was time to put some input to the forum. I've got so much help here from you guys and it was time for me to do something.

Here's a sample of ADK A51 Mk3's as overheads. The room is quite small, 5x4x2.5 metres and have some acoustic dampings.

The mics are placed according to the "drumstick" method. Right mic is placed two sticks over the snare directed to the front of the skin. Left mic is placed over the drummers right shoulder, still at the same distant of two drumsticks and directed to the middle of the snare skin. At last the distances was adjusted to be equal between mic-snare and mic-kick.

It's recorded through a Presonus Digimax into a RME Hammerfall and Logic 5.5 (PC). The mp3 file (320) is made at home using M-audio Audiophile (don't know if that will affect the sound actually).

Here's the link:


(think I made some level adjustments on one channel during this check...think it can be heard)

Hans
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Not too bad...really. Good tom sound and pretty damn good snare sound too. Although I must say the cymbals didn't come out as much as I would like. Is that a Paiste China?

Quite usable I would think. I have recently used the SP B-1's and achieved results quite similar. Although I basically just put one above the snare and one above the floor tom. I also put a mic on the kick, underside of snare and out front. 5 mics total, although I could have gotten by with just 4 (I could have gone without the snare mic I think). My snare sucks (the actual drum) though. Putting a mic out front can make your toms and kick sound huge!

I'll post some mp3's tommorow maybe.

Beez
 
Beezoboy,
I use more mics recording drums too, just wanted to show how the mic sounds as overheads. It works quite well with tree mics sometimes, the oh's and a kick mic.

Hans
 
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