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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user