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In Reply to: micing a kickdrum with a Shure SM58? posted by DJ's Later on August 3, 2004 at 13:25:46:
Each instrument and vocal occupies a specific bandwidth primarlyA piano
A vocal
A bass guitar
A snare
A kickdrumMic anyone above and run it through an FFT
You will see the primary freq bandwidth these all useTypically in a small club a snare drum will stand out and come
through the vocal mics..The toms and Kick will get lost in the stage volume
If the band has a stage volume of 110db then there isnt much
to work with in a club system now is there?To put it bluntly an SM57 is a piece of crap mic to use for a kick drum period
Why? The dam diaphragm is the size of a nickel in diameterTry a large diaphragm mic for the kick
Heck even a cardiod condensor mic, or a condenser would work better with the mic location Bill described then a SM57
Keep in mind the possible feedback problems you can get with
a condenser (PZM mic) (non cardiod pattern)
If you use a PZM (pressure zone mic) you can get some impressive
results on drums if you can keep it from feeding back through your system
This is a cheap alternative to running mics on the entire kit.
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Follow Ups
- Re: micing a kickdrum with a Shure SM58? - STUART 10:54:36 08/06/04 (3)
- Well, which is it? :) - Roscoe East 11:23:58 08/11/04 (2)
- Re: Well, which is it? :) - STUART 12:53:04 08/16/04 (0)
- Re: Well, which is it? :) - Bill Fitzmaurice 05:50:49 08/12/04 (0)
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