drum mic problems

[the pete]

ive been trying to record my band, and ive been working on drums for a while so far. i just cant get them to sound right. they're all in tune, and for mics im using an sm57 on my snare, beta 52 on my kick drum, and 2 sm81's for overheads. im pretty sure its a pretty decent setup. im going into a mackie mixer, audio interface and recording onto sonar 4 producer. ive been using a little bit of eq on the kick and snare. and its just not comming out righ, it seems kinda like the overheads are just overpowering everything, they're not even that high. can someone help me out here? thanks - pete

 

[Harvey Gerst]

ive been trying to record my band, and ive been working on drums for a while so far. i just cant get them to sound right. they're all in tune, and for mics im using an sm57 on my snare, beta 52 on my kick drum, and 2 sm81's for overheads. im pretty sure its a pretty decent setup. im going into a mackie mixer, audio interface and recording onto sonar 4 producer. ive been using a little bit of eq on the kick and snare. and its just not comming out righ, it seems kinda like the overheads are just overpowering everything, they're not even that high. can someone help me out here? thanks - pete

Think backwards. Start by bringing up the two SM81's and get the set sounding as good as possible, then bring in the snare and kick as needed to fill out the sound.

 

[nuemes]

I usually record drums with a similar setup (57 on snare, ATM25 on kick, and two MXL603's overhead) using Mackie VLZ preamps and am nearly always happy with the results. I hang one MXL about 3 to 4 feet over the low tom/ride and the other 3 to 4 feet over the high tom/hi-hat. The room is 8x8 with carpeted floor and carpeted walls on all four sides.

You have the tools to get good sound. Your placement of the overheads and the room itself may be the issue.

 

[systmovadown]

any clips btw??