Photos of your drum micing techniques.

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Do you have any picture of how you mic drums in a session? Or just a session in general. I figure you can post them here.
 

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Just curious, but what is that mic for?
 

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There should be no talking back in the studio! Attitude will get you no where with me. ;-)
 
ya know Bruce, every time i look at photos of your space, i can't help but admit that i grow more and more jealous. :D

that's just a fantastic looking space, and i bet mixing recordings made in it is a pleasure compared to what most of us are dealing with to one extent or another (poured concrete walls, square rooms, 7ft ceilings and whatnot like that). you could prolly just put a couple PZMs up on the walls and get a "usable" drum sound out of em. :b


you've got one of those spaces that most of us homerekkers aspire to. and yeah, i wouldn't take any crap from drummers, either, me being one and all.


cheers,
wade
 
vestast said:
I hope you slapped him upside the head !!
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Actually - having mute control on everyone's mic at the talkback mixer is great!

Shuts people up real good!!!

;)
 
Here's what I've been using lately to record rehearsals.

Kick - Beyer TG-X50
Snare - MXL v93m (tried it on a whim - it's not bad, but not great)
Toms - SM57's
OH - RS PZM's (I've got a pair of MXL 603's on the way)
 

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Little note for ya...

Actually I have recorded interesting room reflections if you record enable the talk back mic... Bring it up in the mix a little bit, you might be surprised. Learned this from a teacher while at CRAS in AZ.
 
If you're Terry Bozzio you do! That man can PLAY!

BTW, Ronan, what was the record?
 
Yeah, Bozzio is the only drummer in the world that should be allowed to have that many drums. For people who do not know his thing, all the drums (and cymbals!!!) are tuned chromaticaly. So its more like a giant marimba. He can play harmony parts with the guitar.

The album was Situation Dangerous by Bozzio, Levin, Stevens. That would be Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Joun Lennon) and Steve Stevens (Billy Idol). It was a great record to work on.
 
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Yeah, Bozzio is the only drummer in the world that should be allowed to have that many drums. For people who do not know his thing, all the drums (and cymbals!!!) are tuned chromaticaly. So its more like a giant marimba. He can play harmony parts with the guitar.

The album was Situation Dangerous by Bozzio, Levin, Stevens. That would be Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Joun Lennon) and Steve Stevens (Billy Idol). It was a great record to work on.
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Didn't he also do some stuff with Jeff Beck ? I think he was on Guitar Shop but I don't know about any other ones..
 
Bozzio also played with Zappa for awhile, and has worked with Steve Vai. And let's not forget Missing Persons, the band he had with his wife!

Ronan - Very, very cool. I have the first Black Light Syndrome record and it's incredible. Was this the same kind of thing? Eh, you don't really need to answer, 'cause I'm sure I'm going to buy it.
 
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The album was Situation Dangerous by Bozzio, Levin, Stevens. That would be Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Joun Lennon) and Steve Stevens (Billy Idol). It was a great record to work on.
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Now I'm bloody impressed, if you pardon my french. That record has one of the best drum sounds of all time. My drummer friend and I (bassist) has played that album over and over, commentating all the time about "Oh! Did you hear that one!" and so on. Remains one of my favourite albums of all time, and it's one I never get tired of.

The sound is much - much! - better on that than the first BLS record. MadAudio, you NEED that album, and you need it now.
 
drums from "goat" by the jesus lizard.
 

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and if anyone's heard the drums from goat, you'd do well to copy these techniques. sounds like you're standing in the room with the drummer. god bless mr. albini.
 
Bozzio did a clinic at the music store I used to work at. Amazing. He used the kit pictured above. It was miked with gobs of AKG 414 & C12. Must have been $60-$70,000 dollars worth of microphones.
 
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