Well we changed how we mic the drums here at DSC. Some of this was an experiment by me and some out of necessity because of our new favorite kick drum, lovingly called The Donkey. It is an old marching bass drum that our drummer Ian added some hoops and refinished it. It sounds awesome. We have used it live and in our new recording space. Let us start with my experiment. I changed how I mic the cymbals. I was using SM81's overhead but decided to use a method I have used in the past for our VBS music when we want to blend the band into the set design a little more. I replaced the 81's with Audio Technica Pro 35's placed under each cymbal. You can see them above in the picture from Easter. The other change was adding a Audix I5 to the beater side of the kick drum. Usually I would put an Beta 91 inside but we don't have a hole in the kick drum head so that was not an option. The Beta 52 is still used on the outside for the bottom. I added the I5 to add a little attack to the tone. We hang it off the floor tom with an LP Claw, and what a great sound we get from this combo.
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