Overhead Placement
figure out what tuning you like and just practice drums themselves, so it’s getting the drums to up, I don’t think it needs a lot. Naturally on the
it. Figure out what heads you like. Just a tip, sound the way you want them to before they’re hi-hat I prefer the mic to be on top of the high
coated heads are naturally going to be darker under a mic. That way when you mic them up hat and kind of pointing back and away from
than clear heads. If you want a darker sound, it’s a clear representation of what you’re trying that left side crash, because I don’t want that
use a thicker coated head. After you tune up to achieve without having EQ and everything. crash to bleed into the hi-hat mic too much. So
and you get the sound, frequency, and vibration Once you get to that point and you start to mic in top but pointing a little away from the kit so
that you want out of the head, then you can use that it gets that hi-hat definition. Especially with
your drum dots to help warm up the sound or a lot of drummers using the ching rings, and
take out some of the sustain in the head. tambourines, and bells and stuff on top of the
high hat, it’ll also pick that up as well.
Drum Dots has a bigger one and a smaller
one, what I like to do if I want a warmer deader Then for overheads, live it’s really not as
sound, I put a big one on top of the head and complicated as the studio. Honestly, don’t
then I take one or two small ones and I put over think it. What I like to do is, I usually only
them on the bottom head. A lot of the ring is have one crash on the left, so I place that
going to come from the bottom head, so that’s
mic in a way that it’s mainly pointing down at
something I like to do. It all starts with the
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that cymbal and a little bit towards the snare
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