cnw60
Senior Member
So - lately I've been setting up my 5 pc as shown in my avatar, with the two mounted toms on a stand because I like having the ride cymbal in tight (I guess I got used to the ride being there from playing a 4 pc for a LONG time).
Anyways - last weekend, our band recorded some songs at the local public access TV studio and this is the first time I've had an outside person do the sound setup. He used a pretty simple and straightforward setup for the kit with one overhead, a kick mic and a snare mic. We've only heard one song so far, which was really just the sound check they played back for us to make sure everything was OK before we started blasting out the set. Everything sounded basically fine - this session wasn't really about trying to get super hi-fi tracks, it was just a 'studio live' session.
The thing is - the position of the snare mic made it really hard to play the tom on the left side of the kit. Basically - as you can see from the avatar pic, there's no gap between that tom and the hats, so I really don't know where you could put the snare mic with this setup where it wouldn't be in the way of something. I'm thinking now that I should reconsider my tom positions at least a little bit to accomodate the mic placement. It's either that or get one of those little tiny clip-on mics for the snare, but I'd rather not go that route.
So my question is how much do you folks adjust your kit to make it easy to mic, or do you mostly set up the way you want it and let the mic position happen as best it can?
Anyways - last weekend, our band recorded some songs at the local public access TV studio and this is the first time I've had an outside person do the sound setup. He used a pretty simple and straightforward setup for the kit with one overhead, a kick mic and a snare mic. We've only heard one song so far, which was really just the sound check they played back for us to make sure everything was OK before we started blasting out the set. Everything sounded basically fine - this session wasn't really about trying to get super hi-fi tracks, it was just a 'studio live' session.
The thing is - the position of the snare mic made it really hard to play the tom on the left side of the kit. Basically - as you can see from the avatar pic, there's no gap between that tom and the hats, so I really don't know where you could put the snare mic with this setup where it wouldn't be in the way of something. I'm thinking now that I should reconsider my tom positions at least a little bit to accomodate the mic placement. It's either that or get one of those little tiny clip-on mics for the snare, but I'd rather not go that route.
So my question is how much do you folks adjust your kit to make it easy to mic, or do you mostly set up the way you want it and let the mic position happen as best it can?