micing toms

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mrface2112 said:
yeah, $70's not bad. i got a handful of em used for about $40 each a while back and supplemented them with a couple new ones.

they're about the same size as the sennheiser 604s and the housings are metal. they're made in china, so who knows what they "really" are. but they're all consistent with each other in terms of sound, so i don't really care. ;)

they come with rim-mounting clips that are absolutely worthless--you're right, they don't get very far over the rim AND they're almost right on top of the head. i threw em in the junk bin. maybe they'll be better suited for clipping to a trumpet or something, b/c they suck on my drums.

i just put em on stands. i don't like rim mounts for studio use anyway (live it's passable).

and yeah, they're VERY focused--a movement of an inch can mean the difference between a deep "BOOM" and a ringy "BOING".

in fact, i use one on snare too--i've gotten a better snare sound out of one of these than i have out of a sennheiser 835, shure 57/545, sennheiser 609 and mxl 603. excellent crack and very little hat wash.

here's a link: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/AKG-D-22-Dynamic-Microphone-for-Instruments?sku=275670


cheers,
wade
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Very Cool! Thanks for the info man. I may look into getting a couple to free up some of my 57's.

F.S.
 
Ironklad Audio said:
is your reasoning for keeping the floor tom in the center to keep the low end down the middle?
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Yup. I do a lot of metal, so I'm almost always going for impact. Having the toms in the middle gives them more punch.
 
I figured it out

I have a bunch of these shit mics I bought years back just for vocals with this band I was in at the time. Anyway they are standard cheap mics that are totally flat mid range. Just the way I like toms to sound. So I bought a mic bar for $8, attached it to the stand, mounted two of these crap mics I have to either end, bought an XLR splitter cable so it goes 1M - 2F and have both mics going into one channel. Its like dual mono as opposed to stereo. So anyway it works out great. I have them at about a 45° angle under the toms pointing up. Not much background noise because these crappy mics don't pick up much low end or high end. You all think I'm crazy right?
 
Yup. I do a lot of metal, so I'm almost always going for impact. Having the toms in the middle gives them more punch.
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i hear you there...personally, i find toms to be the hardest part to get right in an aggressive drum mix. i like to have the big, fat, punch that comes from having them down the middle, but i also like them to be spread across the spectrum during fills/rolls. not hard-panned, but maybe 50-60% out each way.

i have some metal stuff of my own that i'm recording right now, and i think when it comes time to mix, i'm going to try panning the toms across the spectrum, then sending them all to a subgroup...then i'm going to apply an imaging plug to the subgroup and suck the low end back to the middle, while keeping the stick attack panned. i don't know if it'll work as well as i'm hoping it will, but it's worth a shot...
 
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