Finally trying my MD1b-T's as overheads.

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Did the setting up and level checking last night.

They sound great.

It helps that the kit sounds VERY good anyway.
And its a small (12X12-ish) room thats pretty live but they dont come off too roomy.

I am using the "modified" technique with them spaced at 41" from the snare.
The "left" OH is between the hi-hat and snare aimed across the snare towards the floor tom and the "right" OH is almost at the drummers right shoulder and aimed just to the outside of the snare.

Really good overall picture of the kit.

I also put a Beyer M69 on the snare and that thing is awsome.
It ssooooo tight.

This drummer has everthing real low and close and the M69 is right next to the hats pointed about 130 degrees (roughly) away from the hats and the hats are louder in the OH's by quite a bit.

Way less bleed than a 57 and pretty meaty sounding.

Anyway ........ off to do the session today.

I'll try and post results as soon as I can.

Just thought I would put it out there that IMO the Groove Tubes rock on everything I've put them on so far.

Might do some "real" vocal duty today also.

-mike

 

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12 hours... whhhhooooaaaaa

Man thats crazy.

And we didn't even get close to vocals.

9 songs of drums (with scratch guitar)
9 songs bass completed.
6 out of 9 clean rythm guitar.

Then everyone started to just fry so back to on more guitars tuesday.

Drums sound real good.

Got a great bass sound too...... by accident.

Did the drums with scratch guitar because I wanted to use the RE20 (on kick duty) for micing the cab.

Glad I did.

After chasing down some ground loop noise from the Warick bass and amp head ( a GK sumpthin er other) we took the direct out of the head and I put the RE20 about 3' away from his SWR Goliath III cabinet aime right between the horn and upper right speaker.

Pulled up the faders and it was really close.
I just pulled the highs down on the DI and boosted the low end (aabout 70-80hz) then engaged the bass roll off on the mic and boosted at around 900hz and BAM!!

Real clean, round in a trebly kinda way with a low end and punchyness to it that just sat with the kick beautifully.

The only problem was the bass player didnt use a pick at 1st and he was getting a lot of click from pushing the strings down at the pickups to hard.

Sonn as we convinced him to use a pick it actually rounded out the sound while at the same time giveing it just the right amount of definition.

Well time for a nap.

Will post pics and file as soon as I can for comment and/or critique.

...... oh yeah ...... also found a use for my NT3.
Micing a Marshal 4X12 / Mesa triple Rec set up for a scratch track with a Gibson SG.
On clean tones a little brittle but on the distortion channel (set to mild distortion) sounded quite good.

The Groove Tubes just keep earning their money as far as I'm concerned.
Freakin LOVE em.

-mike