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lilblakdak
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Joined: 21 Sep 2005
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| Simple answer. Your overhead mic is to close to your cymbals and is getting distorted. Move the mic away from the cymbals. A vocal mic (more than likely a SM58 or similar) will work fine for an overhead/tom/snare mic people have been using them for years. Sure there are lots of specialty purpose mics but a SM58 is a good all purpose mic. Thats why most engineers have about 20 of them in their bag of tricks. |
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JayCam
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Joined: 10 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| lilblakdak wrote: | | Simple answer. Your overhead mic is to close to your cymbals and is getting distorted. Move the mic away from the cymbals. A vocal mic (more than likely a SM58 or similar) will work fine for an overhead/tom/snare mic people have been using them for years. Sure there are lots of specialty purpose mics but a SM58 is a good all purpose mic. Thats why most engineers have about 20 of them in their bag of tricks. |
Man are you sure? I have alot of recording and playing experience and have never ever seen or heard of anyone using an SM58 on cymbals. Not such a good idea.
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lilblakdak
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Sure condensors are your best bet without a doubt. I cant afford one right now so I use a 58 in my home studio and it works fine. I just had to move it farther awy than a condensor so the mic could handle the volume. I use 57's on my toms and snare. Its not a full blown pro studio, but when on a budget and a 58 is all you have.............
When we play live I dont mic my cymbals, the tom mics pick them up good enough.
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