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www.myspace.com/seeinganatomymusic Dicky took this video for his own notes, but I thought it was cool enough to upload, and maybe someone somewhere wants to see how we got the drum sounds. The mics used are as follows: -Lawson L47 about 2' back from the kick -Electrovoice RE20 right on the kick -Shure SM57 on the kick beater -Shure SM57 on the snare top -Sennheiser MD441 on the snare bottom -AKG C 451 on each tom -Shure SM7 on the hi-hat -AKG C 12 A (pair) as overheads -Avantone CR-14 (pair) in Glyn Johns as overheads -Neumann M149 (pair) on floor as room mics -Earthworks TC30 on balcony as room mic This was kind of mic overkill - we didn't use a lot of what we printed, but it was cool to throw different things up, and it gave us options at mixdown (which we took advantage of a few times). We printed the RE20 and the Avantone ribbons but didn't end up using either on the record. The SM7 actually did a fantastic job on hi-hat (nice chunky stick attack), but we didn't use it much when we were mixing because we had all we needed in the other mics. The C 12A's were the main overheads. In some places we blended in the M149's, which sounded cool on the floor, giving a weird reflection kind of ambience, but more often we used the Earthworks mic on the balcony. It was pointed away from the drumkit at the corner of the wall and ceiling and crushed hard with a Fairchild compressor. The balcony was about 20 feet up from the floor, and about 40 feet away from the drumkit, so it had <b>...</b> |
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