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mentil69
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Im having a bunch of problems with my drum micing setup. First of all my setup is two oktava mc012 omnidirectional condensers for overhead, sm 57s on the three toms, an sm 58 on top of the snare, and a shure KSM27 under the snare. Oh and a beta 52 for the bass drum. So my first problem is that I cannot get the sound I want out of my toms. When I go through my mackie mixer using the xdr preamps, I cannot get the equalization right so I just decided to go straight into my workstation. However, now I am just getting a very flat crapppy sound. Second, my overheads are not working the way I want. When I put them close to the hi hat and ride, I get a good tone, but if I push up the levels at all on them, I start to hear some of the bass drum in them and it doesnt sound good. But when I put them as overheads a couple feet over the set, I get a live sound and the cymbals loud enough. The main problem is that whenever I raise the volume on the overheads I get a lot of bleeding from the bass drum and snare. Can anyone help me out?