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brainofj
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What is the basic steps to miking up a drum kit. I will be using 4 sm58s and a TASCAM 414 PORTASTUDIO connected to my P.C. running Cubase. Can anyone give me some tips.......thanks.
Tom Hicks
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1)snare
2)kick
3&4)stereo overheads
The overheads will provide most of the kit sound,then mix in snare and kick for punch to suit.Overhead placements vary.X-Y technique is to have the mic capsules crossing and almost touching,then hard pan the tracks left and right all the way.Wider placement sounds more modern,but be careful for phase problems arising from any certain signal reaching the two mics at different times.Can give rise to unwanted frequency boosts and cancellations.Try to keep the overheads equidistant from the snare to center the stereo image.On most mixes,kick,snare and bass guitar pan up the middle.
2)kick
3&4)stereo overheads
The overheads will provide most of the kit sound,then mix in snare and kick for punch to suit.Overhead placements vary.X-Y technique is to have the mic capsules crossing and almost touching,then hard pan the tracks left and right all the way.Wider placement sounds more modern,but be careful for phase problems arising from any certain signal reaching the two mics at different times.Can give rise to unwanted frequency boosts and cancellations.Try to keep the overheads equidistant from the snare to center the stereo image.On most mixes,kick,snare and bass guitar pan up the middle.
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brainofj
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What do you mean by have the capsules crossing, almost touching?
Tom Hicks
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Like the shape of the letter V,with the capsules almost touching.The idea is that the sound from all sources arrives at both mics almost simultaniously,so you eliminate phase problems.Then you pan them hard left and right.
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brainofj
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Thank you Mr. Hicks.....much appreciated.
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brainofj
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Much appreciated, that site has answered a lot of questions!
SPINSTERWUN
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brainofj said:
Cool peace.....
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soundprizm
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Wow, tom, I always started with the kick, snare, etc, then the overheads came last. Never even thought about doing it the other way around. I come into the newbie forum to see if I could be of some help, cause I can never answer anything in da other forums. All I do is ask questions. And what do ya know, I learn something in the newbie forum.. hehehe... thanks... 
brainofj, the best way to go is what tom said. Kick, snare, and two overheads. If you have more than two mics, you gotta mic da kick and snare. IMO. Later...
~Donnie
brainofj, the best way to go is what tom said. Kick, snare, and two overheads. If you have more than two mics, you gotta mic da kick and snare. IMO. Later...
~Donnie