Stroman
Diamond Member
Hey there,
I simply cannot bring myself to drill the shell on my Ludwig to install an XLR plug for the internal mic, so I'm thinking once again about external micing. The internal mic is satisfactory to me in most ways, but running the cord through the vent hole is just too ghetto for my sense of aesthetics, lol. You have mentioned micing the batter side of a bass drum as well as the reso in a live situation, and I have some questions about that.
My questions are these - how do you keep the snare and floor tom from bleeding into that batter-side mic, and do you need to worry about reversing phase on the second mic? None of my band members are actual audio techs - we've just learned over the years - but when we tried micing the batter side we got horrible sounding off-axis signal from the snare, especially.
In reading your posts, I've come to trust your advice and I'd like to pick your brain a bit, if I may. Still in search of a way to avoid drilling or altering the drum.
Thanks!
EDIT - anyone else is welcome to chime in, too! I didn't mean to exclude anyone, I just knew audiotech would have input on this.
I simply cannot bring myself to drill the shell on my Ludwig to install an XLR plug for the internal mic, so I'm thinking once again about external micing. The internal mic is satisfactory to me in most ways, but running the cord through the vent hole is just too ghetto for my sense of aesthetics, lol. You have mentioned micing the batter side of a bass drum as well as the reso in a live situation, and I have some questions about that.
My questions are these - how do you keep the snare and floor tom from bleeding into that batter-side mic, and do you need to worry about reversing phase on the second mic? None of my band members are actual audio techs - we've just learned over the years - but when we tried micing the batter side we got horrible sounding off-axis signal from the snare, especially.
In reading your posts, I've come to trust your advice and I'd like to pick your brain a bit, if I may. Still in search of a way to avoid drilling or altering the drum.
Thanks!
EDIT - anyone else is welcome to chime in, too! I didn't mean to exclude anyone, I just knew audiotech would have input on this.
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