On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 01:28 +0200, alexander wrote:
Your snare is too important an instrument to relegate to such abuse.
Rich...
> I've discovered a somewhat crude way of getting a "fat" tom tom sound
> from the overheads, not magically doing away with close up micing of
> toms. But if you're on a budget (like me) and only have 4 inputs
> available It works quite well.(note: you will also need a separate snare
> track) It's quite simple:
>
> Insert an EQ on the overheads and boost around 70-120Hz (depending on
> how the toms are tuned, use your ears ;)) Now, we got more fat out of
> the toms, but, the snare drum is most likely ruined, unless you want it
> to sound muddy of course. To fix this we move the snare track so it's in
> phase with the overheads, then invert the polarity and most of the mud
> in the snare drum should be canceled out from the overheads. I suspect
> an XY placed above and in line with the toms yields the best result..
>
> I'm not sure if this actually is usable in the real world as I have not
> tested it properly yet, i.e mixing in other instruments and so forth.
> And then there's the chance that someone already tried it and scrapped
> it :P.
>
> The clips are from a session when I tested a drum kit that I've actually
> built (I'll tell you more about this if anyone's interested) Recorded in
> a modern super expensive studio where I study, but all mixed in ardour...
>
> The filename says what's goin on..
> http://g.imagehost.org/download/0746/noToms
> http://g.imagehost.org/download/0188/WithToms
> http://g.imagehost.org/download/0878/rawOverheads
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