What mic to buy??

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Zeusy82

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Hey all, complete noob here but you guys seem to know your stuff.

Ok, I have a rehearsal room built in my shed. Plasterboard walls and ceiling and carpeted floor. Around 6m (20ft) long, 3.5m (12ft) wide and 2.4m (8ft) high. I'm the drummer and going to setup some mics to record. Currently looking at getting the shure dmk57-52 pack plus two extra sm57's to record my snare, 4 toms and bass drum. The issue I have is that leaves me with about $200-250 dollars (AUD or USD, so close anyway) for overheards. I was looking at the shure pg81's but I'm not a brand man so it doesn't matter. Just dont know the quality of other gear. Saw some CAD models that fit that price range and some AKG's.
Am I doing this wrong? Should I go for lesser quality close micing and higher quality overheads? Will a couple of cheap $100 ones do for just picking up the cymbals? I really can't stretch the budget any further. I'm not looking at super hq recording, just something nice. Any much appreciated.
 
Sorry, accidentally double posted when I was looking to move the post to microphones. Argh
 
One thing you haven't mentioned is sound treatment. In a sheetrocked room those drums are going to ring like crazy, you will standing waves from the bass drums, etc. You can easily get away with 5 mics (kick, snare, hi hat and 2 overheads). Think about putting the rest of the money/time into room treatment.
 
What Mike B says ^^^

If you wanted to, you could also skip the hi-hat mike.

The purpose of overheads is more to pick up the kit as a whole, rather than just cymbals.
 
I insulated around the whole outside of the room with Dacron and sound deadener. It's not a bad sounding room but was designed to be a rehearsal room rather than a recording studio. Ive recorded some stuff with a zoom h1 previously and it actually sounded quite good but I want to up the ante. I wanna do it this way to so I can patch all the drums, guitar, bass and vox into my mixer and monitor with iems to protect my hearing as well as record.
 
You need to read the studio building thread in that part of this forum. 'Sound deadener' - foam? Dacron is just a thin cloth, won't do anything for the sound. Insulation around the OUTSIDE of the room is good for keeping some outside noise out, but won't help the acoustics inside the room.
 
Since it seems like you just wanna have some fun recording your drums i wouldnt worry too much about room treatments, get your recording chain where you want it and see what happens.

You should easily find some decent OH's in your price range, just keep researching and buy some.
 
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