PlnsMstkn4Jacob
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Yesterday I recorded someone and I decided to not close mic, and to just try like a 4 mic technique so I used a beta52 on the kick, two mxl 991's left and right overheads pretty high up, and an akg perception 200 hovering over the middle of the drum set. It turned out to be a really good drum sound. Plus I was working with a really solid, hard hitting drummer and that to me is more than half of what makes your drums on a recording sound good. I rolled off most of the low end on the left and right overheads and just used those for the sparkle on the cymbals and I added a tiny bit of reverb to the middle mic and used it to pic up most of the snare and toms.