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My mic setup: Nady DM-90 kick mic, a pair of Nady CM-90 overheads, and a $10-ish AKG dynamic for a snare mic, from the top. On the whole, I like the sound. I'm doing a little mid-range boost on the overheads to bring out the toms (and gating and EQing the heck out of the snare mic, but I don't want to use a valuable mic that close to my sticks...).
The problem is that I have a full front head on my bass drum, so I can't put the bass mic in the drum without buying a new head. As a result, I'm getting a huge amount of tom bleed in the bass drum mic, and thus the perceived stereo spread isn't quite as wide as I'd like. I can get rid of some of it with EQ (and I had no trouble getting rid of the cymbals that way), but I can't get rid of as much as I'd like without the bass drum ending up sounding like the infamous cardboard box.
For now, I'm probably doing to fix it in post just by doing some widening (invert opposite channel phase and add a little bit in) on the mids from the overheads, but for future recordings, I'd like to avoid the problem.
Two questions:
1. Should I try to replace the front head with something that isn't a solid head? How much tone will I lose by doing this? I'm trying for a nice ring, not a thwack, so I don't want to end up too close to the beater....
2. Has anybody come up with any tricks (pillows, blankets, etc.) that would help isolate the kick mic from the toms without dampening the sound of the bass drum?
The problem is that I have a full front head on my bass drum, so I can't put the bass mic in the drum without buying a new head. As a result, I'm getting a huge amount of tom bleed in the bass drum mic, and thus the perceived stereo spread isn't quite as wide as I'd like. I can get rid of some of it with EQ (and I had no trouble getting rid of the cymbals that way), but I can't get rid of as much as I'd like without the bass drum ending up sounding like the infamous cardboard box.
For now, I'm probably doing to fix it in post just by doing some widening (invert opposite channel phase and add a little bit in) on the mids from the overheads, but for future recordings, I'd like to avoid the problem.
Two questions:
1. Should I try to replace the front head with something that isn't a solid head? How much tone will I lose by doing this? I'm trying for a nice ring, not a thwack, so I don't want to end up too close to the beater....
2. Has anybody come up with any tricks (pillows, blankets, etc.) that would help isolate the kick mic from the toms without dampening the sound of the bass drum?
