Microphone Advice

It’s quite likely that when you listen to your favorite track off your favorite album that the first thing you listen to is NOT the kick drum, yet it plays suck a vital role in most any track.  The kick drum is important, easily as important as its smaller buddy the snare drum, and warrants More >

For those of you having trouble setting up your kick drum mics, here’s a little tip.  Extreme Isolation Headphones.  These little things are great.  Route the kick drum signal back into these head phones as your setting up your kick and have the drummer place only the kick drum.  Now you can move the microphone More >

Why use one microphone when you could use two?  Sounds like a great idea and in many cases it is, but there are a few things we need to consider before setting up the mics.
Advantages:
- Gives the engineer more to work with in the mix
- provides a backup should one mic fail
– Allows you More >

I’ve heard this question asked quite a bit — how do I get a good sound for heavy rock or metal drum kits?  When it comes to micing up harder rock outfits you have to throw out the idea of micing things naturally.  There is nothing natural about a metal drum kit, just in-your-face mayhem.
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While most of the attention on this site is kick drum microphones we must not forget that while we might have the best microphone in the world, it will never make up for a terrible sound source — in this case, you kick drum.  Let’s focus a little bit on the source right now and More >

A Typical tuning method is to have the batter head control the attack portion of the sound and the resonant head to control the “sustain” portion of the sound.
For more punch (as in a more defined sound) tune the batter side up in pitch 1-2 notes (even as much as 4-5 notes on some drums) from More >