Kick Mic Placement/EQ

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Hey all. I need some advice on placement of my microphone for my kick mic. Currently, I have it placed halfway between the inner and outter head, pointed slightly off center twords the beater. Here is a sample using my large diaphram kick mic: http://si.babts.net/8.wav

i have tried placing the mic closer to the beater, closer to the outside head, and even outside the outter head.

My Eq is +2 @ 80 Hz, -3 @ 300 Hz, +2 @ 12KHz

is there anything that you guys can help me out with here?
 
all depends on your bass guitar or other low instruments really. you don't want them in the same space because you really need your kick to stand out. so does it not sound good in your mix? what are you wanting to do with it exactly?
 
it sounds like crap. i was looking how to make it sound better.
 
my point was that may not sound like crap once you get it in a mix. a good drum mix doesn't neccessarily always sound good in a complete mix. same goes for everything else. if you take 5 instruments that sound really really good alone, chances are they're gonna sound terrible when you put them together.
 
yeah but it still doesn't sound right, it doesn't sound like a kick even, it's lacking something. i've listened to just drum traks with no other instruments, even just the kick, and mine lack something if you listen to the sample.
 
Sounds good to me

I am now using this in Leaf Drums. I think it sounds pretty good. Thanks.
 
it sounds good to me too...maybe a bit of snare sound in there, but that's not noticable in the mix. try boosting a bit around 40Hz and cutting some around 2kHz. if you could give a better description of what you want, it'd be easier to help though. "good" is the most relative term there is. a decent description of what you want done to it would help. not trying to be a smartass, you just have help me to help you a bit.
 
I would actually keep the boost at around 80hz at about 2 or 3 db, widen the low mid sweep and move it to 500 hz, and do a high pass filter with a nice steep roll off at 45 or 50 hz. After you do this, it will be considerably quieter, but should be fuller. Then you just turn it up:D
 
Bass Drum

my 2 pennies.

run all eq flat with no compression while recording.

during playback add compression to taste with no eq.

if it sounds wrong then fix the source and the room.
don't fix a bad recording by eqing it to death.

Possibilities

1. drum is tuned and or dampened wrong
2. room is not set up to record
3. mic & preamp are not doing the job

a good bass drum recording shouldn't need much eq if any

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