Re: Drum overheads in a live band situation
2017/10/10 14:40:23
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The pickup pattern makes a big difference here. Cardioid should be fine, hyper-cardioid, even better. Figure 8 or Omni would pick up too much of the room. If you get too much from the room, you may simply bring the overheads closer to the kit, or forego them and simply close-mic everything. You might try placing overheads facing toward the kit, vs, down at it, or lower behind the kit, and angle guitar amps away from walls or the drums.
With that said, if your concern is controlling the room, try it out, but don't be afraid to separate the guitars, etc. from the room, putting them in separate rooms with headphones. You obviously can't go back and fix lots of bleed very well, and overheads are the absolute worst to gate. The benefit of separating other instruments is that you can introduce room mics on the drums, which will make them sound more live for the band.
Try it and see. Listen to the overheads before committing them.
Brian
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