drum tracking mic setup?

[icarus73]

In a standard basement, how do you think I will be able to record with this mic set up? I will be going into an 8 channel Alesis firewire mixer into an Apple iBook with Garageband.

Inputs:
1: Kick Drum (superlux FK-2)
2: Snare Drum (Shure SM57)
3: Hi-Hat (Shure SM57)
4: Overhead (Shure PG81)
5: Toms (Shure SM57)
6: Floor Tom (Shure SM57)

I have 1 sm57, the superlux kick drum, and i will borrow the condenser for the overhead. i am planning on purchasing 3 more sm57s for those purposes. do you think i'll get a good drum recording? How close might I come to studio quality if i mix it right?

 

[bubbagump]

The thing you will hear over and over is the room. You have to think of a drum kit as one big instrument like a piano and not a bunh of individual instruments. That said, do what ever you can to make your kit sound good in the room it is in.

Now looking at your mic selection, you just mention the type of mics, amI to assume you are putting one mic on each piece listed? SO you are only usig one OH? Personally, I would skip micing the hihat and use a second mic as an overhead in an XY, OSPF, or spaced pair stereo configuration.

Past that... will you get a good drum recording? That part is up to you.

 

[NegadivOne]

SO you are only usig one OH? Personally, I would skip micing the hihat and use a second mic as an overhead in an XY, OSPF, or spaced pair stereo configuration.

What he said. You dont need to be miking the hihat especially with limited mics available. That mic would be much better used as a second overhead.

 

[big country]

or you could lower your over heads to catch the hat like a 2 for one

 

[RAMI]

You don't need to lower anything. Forget the hat mic. Period.

 

[NegadivOne]

You don't need to lower anything. Forget the hat mic. Period.

Yeah the overheads will pick up the hi hats, unless you are like really close miking your crashes or something, which i dont know why you would.