Drum mic placement!!!!!

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Hi Does anyone have any good sites (or pics) that include lots of pics of drum mic placement? I am a TOTAL novice outside of my guitar world and am learning to ask the experts here!
What I think I am going to be able to allocate to drum mics is this...
2 overhead
Snare
H/H
Kick
(not sure how to mic the toms or do they get picked up by the overheads?)

Now I have 2 Audiotechnica ATM 25's and 1 Audiotechnica ATM33R and a sure sm 57

Should the overhead mics be matching?
I have read the atm25 is good for bass and floor tom, opinions????
I read the ATM33R is good for overhead and H/H

I need stands as well so thats another reason the pics (links) will help me.

Thank you so much
Stacy
 
Those mics should be fine, I've heard all of them in those positions and there isn't a reason why you cannot capture a good drummer on a good sounding well tuned kit in a good room!

http://home.earthlink.net/~prof.sound/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/DTBv3.pdf is great for drum tuning and getting the sound you want and http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/mar97/stereomictechs2.html looks good for stereo mic'ing. The close stuff should be pretty simple, but understanding your overhead stereo choices is important.

Experiment...there are no rules.

War
 
Ok I have read all that and saved it to read again and again... now I just need to see some pics of a kit mic'd LOL
 
That was a great link.....TY
I "think" what I want to do is use sep mics for the sound in listening to lots of clips from all over the place of overhead and full-kit micing. I just need to see some lots of pics so I can figure out spacing and how many stands etc etc.
Do they make special stands/clips for mounted tom mics?
What about floor tom's? Reg boom stands?
What about mic'ing the H/H, wouldnt that be a smaller then normal stand?
So many questions, so litt....who am I kidding, I have lots of time LOL
Thanks for the current and future help with pics and info!!!
 
Yes, they make mic mounts that clip onto drums.

Other than that, you'll want one stand per mic, unless you have some sorta multi-mic stereo bar mount or something...

You dont need special stands for somehtin glike a hi-hat, just use a boom stand.

Put the stands wherever the hell they need to be to hold the mics where you want em. As long as they're not in the way, and the mic is where it sounds best, that's what you want.
 
I believe it's fairly unusual to mic high hats. Generally you get plenty through the overheads.
 
AGCurry said:
I believe it's fairly unusual to mic high hats. Generally you get plenty through the overheads.
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True you get plenty through the overheads, but I typically mic the hats just in case I need a little (or a lot) during mixdown.

War
 
Yeah, I'd say it's actually a fairly common practice. Personally I've never found the need, but I've seen it done many a time.
 
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