mic to tame that piccolo

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I'm recording my band soon and tryin to get the drums mics together. This is for heavy heavy rock. I'm tryin to fatten up the snare and tame the high pitch. I think m421's might be too bulky to get in there I was thinkin of trying a e906. I'm trying to make this work without breakin the bank, any suggestions?
 
A mic cannot pick up what isn't there to begin with. Try a different drum, different heads, different tuning first. Imo, if you want a fat snare sound, get a fat sounding snare drum.
 
Though I would suggest just using something that sounds like what you want originally, if you just can't get around using that snare, I suggest a little bit of Drumagog to fatten it up..
 
Just use drumagog, and the mic you use dosent matter, and you could turn a bucket (literally) into the fattest snare drum with absolutly no bleed from the hi hats.
 
Oh, piccolo snare. I came in here expecting a discussion about extreme woodwinds. Carry on.
 
Guy's using a piccolo snare for heavy rock ...

... and he's looking for a mic ... that won't make it sound so much like ... a piccolo snare (?) :confused:


I officially give up. I have failed ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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as long as your aren't trying to recreate a fat deep sounding snare live with this piccolo, a drum replacement tool IE Drumagog would work quite well.

You have made a grown man cry you should be ashamed of yourself.
 
oh the dreaded piccolo. They should all be shipped off to an island and left there.

Drumagog sounds like a good way to me. The following two examples are DRUMAGOG replaced piccolos:





and here is the above with the piccolo (and original kick) left in the mix



if you don't go the drumagog route, retrack it. A piccolo won't sound like anything other then a piccolo, no eq or compression will make it sound like a bit metal drum.
 
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