SteveDW said:
placements, angles, distances, internal vs. external, while using Sennheiser E604's on all drums, and MD421-II in BD. opinions, advice, comments, (pleasant please) . am both, curious, and need to know.
tnx.
steve
(first post)
Hi Steve,
well-do you have the drum mounts with the 604's?
Mount them on the kit and Play around with them some-move them back and forth to see what works for YOU!
Everybody has their own "Ideal Drumsound", that they are shooting for.
Mic placement will depend upon tuning...some tuning sound good mic'd really tightly, and some sound good with a little distance.
For instance. I use EV Mic's and LP Claws.
With the mic's really close to the heads-they just don't sound that great...but If I turn the claw "out"-so that it is farthest away from the tom-and then angle the mic to pick up the center of the drum-it sounds pretty much how I want it to sound. (with smaller toms this may not be needed, but with large diameter drums-you need to give them a little "room to breathe".
Now, I personally never liked the 421 for Kicks...I did like
the MD441 for kicks (it's a long rectangular Hypercardioid that is awesome sounding when it's aimed at or just below the mallet strike.), But I love the 421 for toms....we used to have a pair that we used for kicks, but I just never liked the sound I was getting out of them.
Go to the "Search" and look up Recording Drums-you'll come up with a blue million answers.
What works for me May or May not work for you...I mean, My smallest tom is a 15" and my Kicks are 28" in Diameter-and alot of the stuff I do-doesn't always apply to smaller drums.
For instance, you can take a 16" Floor and tune it really low (just past "Wrinkles") and it can record GREAT, but that doesn't apply to my 20" Floor tom-it's just too low and "floppy" sounding, you see what I mean? So, with my 15",18", & 20" Toms... I have to put a bit more tension on the heads than someone using a 13", 16", & 18" setup.
Tim