home recording evaluation...

[3Sum]

setup used:

shure beta sm58: between snare and hi-hat
2 shure sm58's: one on each tom (floor, and high)
1 shure bg 1.1: bass drum then through a bass amp into the mixer

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download long road to nowhere and plz give feedback on it (not the song itself but the recording quality, etc.) thanx!

 

[Whyte Ice]

Check out the Mp3 mixing clinic, its a forum for these type of posts and you will probably get more feedback there then you would in this forum.

 

[T.J.Hooker]

Well, I wasn't able to listen right now, but I can tell you from experience that you will probaly have better luck with an SM-57 between the snare and hi hats. But like I said I'm not able to listen right now. It probably sounds great though.

T.

 

[tubedude]

Put the 58 about an inch or so over the snare if possible, pointed away from the hats. The hat bleed will most likely be enough.
Forget the bass amp, chuck that. UNless its awesome for some reason, but its probably a little slow for a kick.
Thinking aout it... given those mics and not much to work with, I would ATTEMPt to put the Beta on the snare, the other one on the kick, and the "matched" 58's as an overhead pair in an x/y, pretty high up so as the hyped high end on the 58 wont kill you on the cymbals to bad. Maybe get the cymbals off axis (over the cymbals, but pointed toward the drummer some. Make sense? Take the 58's and trade them for MXL603's. Same price and the MXLs will most likely make way better overheads.
If you can get away with it, if the snare sounds good and is loud, take the beta off and put it in the kick, and scrap the other mic. Just use kick and overheads. Might work out just fine.