I think it works great. That snare reverb sounds epic too what are you using? Nice mix, super tight.

Thanks mate. Appreciate the kind words. Could use some tweaking but again I’m not mixing the tune and it’s not even fully arranged. Reverb is Valhalla plate. ALL the Valhalla verbs are fantastic IMHO!

That sounds really nice jcoutu. Do you stick mics near the stone area? The room sounds really controlled. Sweet sounds. I also love the lighting in that room! Good stuff.

Thanks man. I've tried some room mics by the stone, but generally stick with my mid-side setup about mid room.

Here's a taste of in the room through my phone from just now...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0bau4jg...=16htfbv0uftxu

I’ve never tried M/S for rooms in my space. Thanks for mentioning that. I really need to try it. It sounds really good in your room. Very balanced.

On another note how did you get your picture to fill in the space of your post? It even stays at high resolution when I expand. What resolution is your pic?

Great looking and sounding room. IS that a Manley Reference Gold on the room for the side mic? What's the snare mic blend? Floor looks like an X1dD, but what's on the Rack tom? What's the BD situation?

Snare looks like an mk-012 and a 57? Or perhaps that’s an iSK pearl? Kinda looks like my Pearl mics but not sure. That kick has a nice bloom for sure! I think the M/S is really contributing to that smooth sound...

Thanks guys. Pic is hosted on imgur and posted with the GS photo link.

Beta 52 kick in - Sound Skulptor 573 - Tonelux TX5C - DIYRE EQP5
Aston Origin - Sound Skulptor 573 - Midas console eq
57/012 snare top - VP28's - Iron Age Audio EQ proto - KT76/DBX560
57 snare Bottom - Midas pre/eq
Rack - senny 906 - Midas pre - dbx 560 / Midas eq
Floor - se X1D - Midas pre - dbx 560 / Midas eq
Overheads - BeesNeez lulu - Locomotive 286a - elysia Mpressor - cranesong ibis
Room Mid - ksm27 - Midas pre/eq
Room side - Manley Gold - Midas pre/eq

Nice pic !! Think I’ll try that

I am also a big fan of M/S in a semi near room mic setup. I find that it can help with a pinpoint stereo image of the drum kit. VS something like spaced pair which is going to be more wide and separate sounding. I try to center it with the line made by the kick and snare drum so they are right in the middle of the stereo field.

Good advice on the line that runs thru kicks and snare. Hadn’t thought of that. I got the mics setup roughly today. Hoping to try and test recording sometime this week if I have a couple hours down time.

K in - e602
K out - U47
SN top - 441
SN bottom - 201
FL - ATM230
OH - M300
HH - M160
Room - R84's (Blumlein)
Far room - 251

These are two sets of drum kit miked in my studio (sonictemple_studio): one in the main room and the other in the vocal booth.

The main hall is six meters high and I placed a stereo microphone (mid-side) on a balcony near the ceiling to take advantage of the natural environment.

The vocal booth acoustic, on the other hand, is much more controlled (but not dead) ... and I just need to open a little the door that leads to the lounge room and place there two mics to get my echo-chamber.
(You can't see the lounge-echo-chamber in the pic).

Bunch of pics from my session today. D12E and Fet47 on Kick. C37A's on toms. D19 and 441's on snare. KM84on hat. C12s in isosceles triangle on OH. RCA77DX over the kit. 4038 out front. M160's and M50's out wide stereo. Most importantly, Pete Thomas on the kit.

My favorite drummer.

Yeah, any setup is gonna work with a drummer that good. Can you say what the project is?

Setting up the mics...
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I love the sound of this room and those old Tamas

Whoa!!
Are those the newer, current production telefunken C12's?

Since its at Ocean Way I'm quite sure it's real ones and not clones

That setup looks friggin amazing! Couple q’s JJ.

Where did you get those huge foam blocks? Would love a couple of those!

Plz Tell us a little more about “isosceles triangle” for OH and how it effects the capture. :0)

Yes! Sound examples even better :D

Oh, sorry. I've never seen ocean way.

jj is such a hack

Haha!!! So, so sick!!! All of it!

From a session I did recently. I tried M/S rooms as suggested by @ monkeyxx and I think it adds a real nice sense of controlled space to the capture. Seems particularly fitting for this modern jazz type style. So thx for that advice! Clips below are completely RAW with zero processing and zero EQ, including the sax, Rhodes and bass. Just faders up.

Unfortunately, I didn't get any really detailed pics because I only had about an hour to place all the mics and setup the session from scratch. Needless to say I wasn't totally focused on getting photos of the mic positions. The second pic shows exactly how and where I had the M/S setup on my house kit before the drummer came in with his own kit. Same placement give or take a few inches.



Kick > B52 > ua 4-710d > 1176 engaged
Kick sub - LoFreq > ua 4-710d
Snare Top > Prodipe TT1 > ua 4-710d > 1176 engaged
Snare bottom > AT-Pro37 > ua 4-710d
Hats > iSK Little Gem > console (Soundtracs MRX32)
T1 > ATM25 > Soundtracs MRX32
T2 > EV308b > Soundtracs MRX32
T3 > KBM412 > Soundtracs MRX32
OH's > Stellar C5's > Daking MP2
Mid-Room > modded MCA-SP1 > Soundtracs MRX32
Side-Room > Vinjet > Soundtracs MRX32
Room Far > Original NT2 > AML VMP2




[LATE EDIT] Forgot to mention the M/S side mic is NOT matrixed in this faders up bounce!



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Very cool, Funny Cat. I'm always extremely flattered and gratified when ANY of my advice is useful to someone else. Your mic position looks very much like what I do here. I agree I think it does work pretty well with the music. Sometimes a nice stereo spread can sound fresh.

A recording I’m producing for Mike Finnigan.

What room is that?

Vintage. It’s actually at Eastwest.