Recording bongos, tambourine, other percussion

[SMX_Dizzy]

Hey everyone, I'm back! Well, my band teacher let me borrow almost all of our percussion instruments over the summer, and will let me keep them untill we need them for concert band. Well, hopefully my studio will be up before concert band (no time soon, but getting there) and I've already got a ton of songs w/ the percussion stuff (bongos, tambourine, sleighbells, cowbell, agogo bells, shakers, moraccas, vibraslap, etc etc). So, for those of you with some of these things, how do you record them? I'm still not 100% sure on what mics I'll be getting, but just let me know how/what you do to record your percussion instruments.

 

[mikeh]

I've found that most hand percussion such as beels tambourines, etc. track well with a condensor mic. While a SD works well (I've had good results with an Oktava MC012) I actally like using a LD. In particular I've had good luck with an AT4033 and actuallly an AKGC3000 works very well (it has a natrually high end that works well with percussion. With hand percussion, I normally mic from about 3' away (basically the same as a drum kit overhead

Hand drums (congas, bongos, etc) can work well with a condensor but a dymamic (such as a Shure SM57) can also be used - this normally requires close mic'ing.

 

[TheBigGiantHead]

Properly recording bongos and tambourine....
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