Can I put a V67 inside a Kick Drum?

[Herman P Willis]

We've never been able to get exactly the right sound from a SM-57 inside a kick. It can probably be done, but with all the other mics we have, it just wasn't worth the time it would take to mess with it.

I wonder if darrin_h actually meant putting the 57 on the batter side, with the LD condenser 4' out front. Whether he meant that or not, is that a technique that you favor Harvey?

 

[Fangar]

Ok Just a useless trivia question that I can't remember the answer too.

Which band filmed a video with the drummers bass drum filled with live gold fish and water. Then when the intro reached its peak he gave it a whacko and the fish...well?

P.S. A very good thread boys might I add. Usefull info about Ribbon mics. Thanks

Fangar

 

[TexRoadkill]

U2 did a lot of the drums on their latest albums with a U47 on kick. They would place it farther out so it was more of a room mic. They did a lot of it with the U47, a sm57 on snare and a 58! as overhead.

 

[chessrock]

Somehow I can't imagine a 58 being the best choice as an overhead.

I don't know what kind of "sound" they were after, but that just seems awful silly to me. I mean, this is U2. I suppose they have a budget that can get them just about any mic they wanted. And I'm a homewrecker, and even I can't find much use for the 58 . . . ESPECIALLY on drum overheads (? ? ? ) They should have hired me. I would have stuck a couple of Octava mc012's up there, and they probably would have hailed me as a genius. My advice on that certainly would have come awful cheap.

Maybe they were just trying to prove a point? Perhaps their engineers left Betty Ford a bit premateurly? But what the hell? Whatever works.

All the . . . uh . . . power to them. I guess.

 

[DarthFaders]

You can put a fetus in a kick drum, if you so desire.

 

[chessrock]

Dude, that was gross.