[LAU] Fat tomtoms from the overheads, potentially interesting info for drummers on a budget.

[Ricardus Vincente]

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 01:28 +0200, alexander wrote:

  Your snare is too important an instrument to relegate to such abuse.

Rich...

> I've discovered a somewhat crude way of getting a "fat" tom tom sound 
> from the overheads, not magically doing away with close up micing of 
> toms. But if you're on a budget (like me) and only have 4 inputs 
> available It works quite well.(note: you will also need a separate snare 
> track) It's quite simple:
> 
> Insert an EQ on the overheads and boost around 70-120Hz (depending on 
> how the toms are tuned, use your ears ;)) Now, we got more fat out of 
> the toms, but, the snare drum is most likely ruined, unless you want it 
> to sound muddy of course. To fix this we move the snare track so it's in 
> phase with the overheads, then invert the polarity and most of the mud 
> in the snare drum should be canceled out from the overheads. I suspect 
> an XY placed above and in line with the toms yields the best result..
> 
> I'm not sure if this actually is usable in the real world as I have not 
> tested it properly yet, i.e mixing in other instruments and so forth. 
> And then there's the chance that someone already tried it and scrapped 
> it :P.
> 
> The clips are from a session when I tested a drum kit that I've actually 
> built (I'll tell you more about this if anyone's interested) Recorded in 
> a modern super expensive studio where I study, but all mixed in ardour...
> 
> The filename says what's goin on..
> http://g.imagehost.org/download/0746/noToms
> http://g.imagehost.org/download/0188/WithToms
> http://g.imagehost.org/download/0878/rawOverheads
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