First Drum Mic Hookup Test
by admin on Jul.15, 2009, under Uncategorized
I still don’t have all of my mics in yet, the rest should be in tomorrow, but without anyone to help me run the board from the upstairs to downstairs, I set some basic levels, recorded a sample, and played with the sound a bit in Logic Studio. So far my levels aren’t nearly hot enough, and my Ride and HiHat aren’t mic’d. I am surprised at how much thump I am getting out of the Shure Beta52 without the Yamaha Subkick in yet.
The basic drum/cymbal mic rundown is as follows (* for the mics that will be here tomorrow, not recorded in this sample)
18×22″ Tama SuperStar Custom Bass Drum – Shure Beta52, front head, just inside the port, Yamaha Subkick*
Tama 14×5.5″ Snare Drum – Shure SM57 on top and bottom
Tama SuperStar Custom Hyperdrive Toms 10″, 12″, 14″ Floor and 16″ Floor – Sennheiser e604 on each
Sabian 16 and 18″ AAX Crash Cymbals, 20″ Sabian AAX Ride, Sabian B8 10″ Splash and 18″ China – Rode NT5 Matched Pair for overheads, AKG C430* on Ride and HiHat
Drums are coming in from the basement in on XLR Snake into a Behringer MX9000 Mixer, with 8 Subs (Bass, Snare, TomL, TomR, HH, Ride, OHL, OHR) into an M-Audio Profire 2626 audio interface.
There has been no EQ applied at the mixer and the levels aren’t even close to optimal, I had to squeeze it a bunch to get it semi loud so the MP3 sounded ok.
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The rest of the mics are in and I have been spending some time getting position right and levels, it’s getting there!
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December 4th, 2009 on 7:14 pm
hello, I just purchased a profire 2626 to record my drums. My plan was to mic all 5 drums and 2 overhead mics. I notice if I use the Profire 2626 by itself without a computer, I only hear inputs 1/2 through headphone 1 and 3/4 through headphone 2. I do not hear anything from inputs 5-8 through either headphone outs. Is that how it is suppose to work? I wanted to be able to hear all drums through a set of headphones without a computer if I take the profire 2626 on a gig in standalone mode. I also have Logic Studio running on a Mac and want to record my drums. Is it possible to hear all 7 inputs of my drum playing through a set of headphones while I’m playing or can I only hear it through playback within Logic? Can you help me with the settings of Logic and the profire mixer? Is it kind of automatic or are there a couple of settings I might be missing? Any help is appreciated. If you don’t want to reply, that’s cool too. I know everyone is busy. thanks, Harry