Moving On

Matthew and I chose "Move On" to dive into with the recording process (and with the gorgeous mics). It will be one of the more complicated songs because it has two sections that we will record separately, but will need to keep some continuity between them. This is also a good chance for me to try out different drum mic setups.

Here's what Matthew recorded to the click track for the first section...



Here is my first good take with the two UMT 70 S in a stereo pair over the drum set. The floor tom was recorded separately.



The clip is louder because I was trying to bring the snare and bass forward through EQ. After quite a bit of tinkering, I just felt this was not as "live" a drum sound as I wanted. It also didn't have enough capture of the bass drum.

I did a little playing around, and chose to go with one mic about three feet over the kit pointed at the snare, and one mic about four feet in front of the kit pointed at the top of the bass drum. Like so...



I tried this setup with one of the KM-88s in the position over the set, thinking they would be good overhead mics. It didn't seem to capture enough of the body of the sound. If I had lots of inputs, I probably would have used them as overheads while close miking the kit as well. But limited to two inputs, the best combo seemed to be the UMT 70 S in each position. This gave me more of what I was looking for...



And with Matthew's scratch. Not much done in terms of mixing/producing.