Skitch
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Well after a fair bit of messing around and taking up all your suggestions (thankyou for all your contribution) I finally found the source of the problem. I believe TNA had the closest idea, which was the vibration of the floor tom and the the sound of the skins which were interfering with each other when I had the mic placed on the drum hoop via a little mount. I picked up a short length mic stand and placed the mic on that, and there was no problem at all!
I am very happy and have got quite a nice sound from my drums. I never realised that the vibrations of the drum shell and the actual sound produced could interfere to create such an annoying problem. Anyway I hope this thread is useful to anyone who has the same problem: Mount your mic on a stand!
Check out my little recording! I would like to know what you guys think
Yeah, miking the drums in the studio using drum mounts cause "mechanical noise" which doesn't matter as much live but in the quiet space of a studio causes huge problems. mark me as one of the guilty ones!
Mike
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