In this video, I wanted to place a bunch of mics on the snare drum so that the differences between each mic become apparent. To do this, I placed the Shure SM57, Telefunken m81, Audio-Technica AT3031, Neumann KM184, and the AKG 414xlii on the top or batter side of the drum. I placed another Shure SM57 and a Lewitt LCT 040 on the resonant or snare side of the drum. All of these mics were connected to an Avid Pre and then directly into ProTools via Apogee's Symphony mkii convertors. No EQ or compression has been added. All of the mics on the top of the snare have been positioned so that they are reacting to the sound in the same direction at the same time. For the two bottom mics this was accomplished by inverting the polarity on the mic pre for these two channels and adjusting the distance of the microphones to the bottom head.
I asked Andy to play some single drum hits and looped two of them. This then allows the viewer to hear the same two hits for each microphone, plus a few combinations. Next, I had Andy play a beat. Again, I selected a small segment and looped it so that the viewer could listen to the sound of all of the drums bleeding into the individual and combinations of snare microphones.
I did not mic up the entire kit as I wanted the focus to be solely on the snare drum
Here is a link to a zipped folder containing the 7 audio tracks, one for each mic. There are also blended tracks where either 2 or 3 mics are combined. There are 24bit/96k mono audio files:
drive.google.com/file/d/1svtqxWlSFImx9R-rFAyOsR2D-5iUGUy8/view?usp=sharing
0:00 Intro
0:51 Single drum hits
Drum Beat
2:37 SM57
2:48 M81
2:58 AT3031
3:09 KM184
3:19 414xlii
3:30 SM57(bottom)
3:41 LCT040(bottom)
3:51 SM57+AT3031
4:02 M81+KM184
4:12 SM57+AT3031+LCT040(bottom)
4:23 M81+KM184+SM57(bottom)
Products used in the video:
Shure SM57 - www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SM57--shure-sm57-cardioid-dynamic-instrument-microphone
Telefunken M81sh - www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/M81SH--telefunken-m81-sh
Audio-Technica AT3031 - discontinued - www.audio-technica.com/en-us/at3031
Neumann KM184 - www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/KM184Ni--neumann-km-184-small-diaphragm-cardioid-microphone-nickel
AKG414xlii - www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/C414XLII--akg-c414-xlii-large-diaphragm-condenser-microphone
Lewitt LCT040 - www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LCT040MATCH--lewitt-lct-040-match-small-diaphragm-condenser-microphone
Drum Drops 200g - tandemdrums.com/products/drops-200g
X-Clip - www.axemount.com/product-page/the-xclip