From the course: Drum Setup and Mic'ing in the Studio

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Mic'ing the snare from the top and bottom

Mic'ing the snare from the top and bottom

From the course: Drum Setup and Mic'ing in the Studio

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Mic'ing the snare from the top and bottom

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- To illustrate mic-ing the snare drum-- I'm just gonna get this thing out of the way so we can see what's going here. So, mic-ing the snare drum... I like a 57, it's the go-to mic. Mine happens to be modified, I took the transformer out of it so it drops about 15 db off the output which keeps your pre-amp from overloading. Kind of a handy feature, also makes it a little bit brighter than a standard 57. Now, when mic-ing the snare drum, we have to consider the bleed of the other drums. So we got a rack tom right here, we would normally have a hi-hat right here which is the most obnoxious sound on the drum set. So, if we want to minimize that bleed, we have to work with the angle of the snare drum mic. To complicate that further, it's difficult to get this microphone in there in such a pattern that the hi-hat bleed is rejected. So, if we point it sort of away from the hi-hat and we want to get down on the drum as much as we can, the angle of the microphone will determine the balance…

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