User Guide

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• Room set:
Neumann U87’s recorded through Avalon preamps.
They were placed 15 ft. back from the bass drum, each at a 45 degree angle from
the kit.
A room set like this is often mixed in mono and set back 10 to 24 dB. It provides a
nice ‘filler’ for the drum tone, and adds a live room flavour.
• PZM set:
Crown PZM microphones at floor level recorded through API preamps and Empiri-
cal Labs Distressors set at 3:1 compression ratio with a gentle threshold (remov-
ing 0 to 6dB depending on drum-hit velocity). This compression stage was added
in order to bring more body and sustain to the PZM recordings.
Their placement was 10 ft. back from the bass drum, each at a 45 degree angle
from the kit, forming a right-angle intersecting bass drum trajectory.
PZM’s are also good ‘filler’ as they capture a good room tone and drum trajectory/
stereo image not captured by the other mics.