New Drum Microphone's
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NICE!!!!
Congrats!
I really dig my D6, and I5, a lot. I’m sure you’re going to enjoy putting them to good use.
The D6 is also excellent as a bass cab mic.
The I5 is also an excellent mic for guitar cabs...and even pretty darned good on some vocalists.
I really dig my D6, and I5, a lot. I’m sure you’re going to enjoy putting them to good use.
The D6 is also excellent as a bass cab mic.
The I5 is also an excellent mic for guitar cabs...and even pretty darned good on some vocalists.
1- I have a set of those headphones, and they are great for setting mic positions...good isolation for tracking too.
2- I disagree with the use of a tied loom of individual long cables to the board. I functioned fine like that for many years. But when I went to hard wire my studio, I went with a 16x8 snake for the drum area and never looked back. So much easier to manage, for me. A single 1.25 inch cable that I run along the main beam, and down a column...so neat, and easy to manage...use the cable lengths needed to get the job done from the box positioned convieniently. Another 12x4 drop snake pulls duty, if needed, for a full live set up of drums, guitars, bass, and scratch vocals.
3- Holy crap! That’s a lot of kick mic’s! But too much IS never enough...sometimes. Record everything...use what you like. Data storage is fairly cheap these days...some performances are priceless.
4- If you have the room for it, take advantage of it. His points about the irregular room dimensions are good ones. Parallel surfaces kinda suck. Room mic’s on drums, in a good room are fantastic though. A great opportunity for a little mid/side, or blumlein array can be a beautiful thing when tastefully mixed with close mic sets.
5- He says he doesn’t mind a little “bleed”, but he does what I begged my drummer to do many years ago(and he did)...his toms are not mounted to the kick, and the tom mounts are externally attached to the drums. This cuts those annoying little hardware rattles, squeaks, and drum body resonant crosstalk down to a surprisingly tolerable level.
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By the way, recording acoustic drums is one of my favorite studio duties...has been for a looooong time. I kinda miss doing it as regularly as I used to.
Oh yeah! You’ve posted that before! Sorry for the rehash!
Very nice bit of kit there. Multitracking over USB.
100mm motorized faders, with Mackie and HUI emulation for DAW control.
Seems pretty straight forward and comprehensive.
I hope that you enjoy yourself with it often!
One of these days I’m going to have to update my dinosaur...but it still works.
Thanks for sharing.
Very nice bit of kit there. Multitracking over USB.
100mm motorized faders, with Mackie and HUI emulation for DAW control.
Seems pretty straight forward and comprehensive.
I hope that you enjoy yourself with it often!
One of these days I’m going to have to update my dinosaur...but it still works.
Thanks for sharing.
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...and if they have half of the cool gear that you have...when you guys get together, it must be a boat load of fun...
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67plexi
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Oh, Christmas in November, how nice
Of course there will be Christmas in December, in January, in.....
Yes I never buy in November December That's the time to sell. January is a good time to buy. And the vintage guitar dealers buy in January through mid April to restock inventory and avoid capital
gains.
Audix makes some really good stuff.
I spec out Audix from time to time for jobs we install.
It can be pricey, but it is good.
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67plexi
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I thought the Audix microphone set was a deal. USA made not cast body China made. My friend Angus set up and built most of the major recording studio's in California I'm still kicking my self
for not buying his Microphone collection but it was a package deal I just didn't have room for it all. That was 22 years ago time fly's Angus did tell me how to build my home studio.