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I finally have an acoustic drum set up and ready to record, along with a drummer that can and wants to play it. Will miracles ever cease!

Its an 8 piece Ludgig with 5 cymbals. I have 6 mics on it. A Blue Ball (thanks T.O.!) on the kick, AKG PL 790s on the snare/hat and floor tom, 2 SM 57s on the 4 rack toms and cymbals and an AKG C30000B on the room/overhead.

I only have two short demos to mix off of but I already have slammin drum tones with minimal engineering.

We start recording monday!

Ur only using 1 mic as an O.H.?

Can't wait to hear the results!

Sounds cool.
Waits for clips

From what I am hearing I only need one overhead mic. I'm using the overhead primarily for cymbals and depth. The tom mics are picking up the cymbals as well and a bump between 2k-8k really brings them out on the tom channels and then I can get the cymbals ringing nicely in the overhead. The C3000B tends to be a little bright so it's excellent as a room source. It's also a condenser mic so I don't have to be right up on the source to get a solid level.

I'll probably replace the AKG PL790s with SM57s. The PL790s are a deceint live vocal mic but they are a little hotter and voiced differently than the SM57s. We'll see though because they sound good for the moment and I'm trying to hold funds for a Rodes K2 for the vocal tracks.