u/TarboT000

I'm experimenting/recording demos in a small bedroom, and it's quite the cramped space. Because of this, the hoop of the kick drums' resonant side is directly against my bed, making it impossible to mic the drum from the front.

I don't have a microphone meant for a kick drum at the moment, so I'm using a tom mic (Heil PR28) on the batter side coming in from the floor tom side (though I should seriously come in from the hi hat side to reduce snare bleed) about 6 inches away from where the beater strikes the head, pointed directly at it.

After a huge smiley face EQ, the sound is decent and usable, but I'm just wondering if anyone has personal experience or tips concerning using a standalone batter side mic for the kick sound. How to get better low end? Tips for reducing bleed from the rest of the kit? Albums that have done this? Engineers that do this? Anything! I'm curious to see what other people know about this.

Hi. I'm a rhythm guitarist of 5 years turned bassist/drummer.

I rarely practice the guitar now, but I don't want to lose the skills that I once had. It's still fun to rip some riffs on it now and then, and I don't want to be the guy that says "awww, I used to be really good, but I haven't played in x years".

I'm looking for songs (probably metal, given what I'm searching for) in E standard (heavily preferred), Drop D, or Eb standard (last resort. only if it's a great practice song, examples below) to keep my right hand fresh and in use.

Fast 16th note/sextuplet alternate picking, string skipping, hertas, downpicking, funky rhythms/weird accents or crazy syncopation are what I'm looking for.

Examples:

Painkiller - Judas Priest: Those sextuplets in the chorus are awesome, the whole song is pretty much my go-to warm up song. Also, that riff at 1:20 is pretty challenging, as I have to downpick the whole thing in order to get those pinch harmonics accurate to how they sound on the album.

Soul Sacrifice - Power Trip: Those super fast 16th note chugs at 1:46 are a great challenge.

Fucking Hostile - Pantera: Same reasoning as above

Blackened - Metallica: I spent months practicing this one as a beginner, it really honed in my downpicking. Excellent challenging string skipping song.

Dumpweed - Blink-182: In order for me to get those chugs during the verses to sound like the album, I gotta downpick power chords. Surprisingly tough to do consistently for me!

Bleed - Meshuggah: Like I said, Eb is a last resort, but this song is such a good rhythm challenge that I don't mind tuning the bottom 2 strings of my 6 string to Eb to play it.

Angel Of Death - Slayer: Another Eb song, but it's so goddamn fast and rewarding. Killer, killer song.

Hopefully I can add some new songs to my practice session, so I'm not playing the same ones for years.

Thanks!

I’m a 5’7 196lb 50 year old woman that frequently gets lower back pain, my knees are incredibly stiff, I get pain in my feet, and a burning pain in my hips and pelvic area, and visible bloating after eating anything. I’ve had this pain for at least 2 years. I’ve been to the ER twice within the past month, and to the doctors’ office weekly. My labs are all good, nothing of note from CT scan and vaginal ultrasound. The pain in my body is daily and non-stop, and it gets worse when I walk.

The doctors always suggested that it was a dietary issue, or my weight, so in hopes of improving my health, two months ago, I removed gluten from my diet, stopped eating pork, increased my water intake, removed as much added sugar from my diet, as well as artificial sweeteners for my IBS. I eat eggs for breakfast every morning, as well as a high fiber fruit. I eat carrots every day, and a lot of beets for my anemia. I’ve dropped 25 pounds in the past year. And a good amount of it is probably due to these changes.

After a bad back strain in January of this year, I started doing daily back stretches, along with physical therapy, but I stopped three days ago because of my worsening body pain.

I take daily multivitamins, calcium, magnesium glycinate, blood builders, and I get monthly B12 shots. I also have turmeric and ginger teas at bedtime to help with inflammation.

I would love to be more physically active, and feel like myself again, but this pain is taking over my life.

I’m looking for advice, or to hear from people experiencing something similar.

(posting for my mom)

I have been loving the sound of this album, the drums in particular. They're so raw and ringy. If you haven't heard the album, check out the title track, or Woman On The Screen.

I'm too much of an amateur to be able to hear things like microphones placements just based off of recordings, but maybe somebody else has an inkling as to how this beautiful sound was captured. Mic placements perhaps, or effects in post.

In trying to get a garage-y sound, I experimented with an SM58 over my right shoulder, pointed at the center of the snare, a kick mic, and a room mic a bit away from the kit, and it's cool, but I'm hoping someone can guide me closer to the sound of the album.

Minimal mics, I'm assuming (no more than 3), probably just one mono overhead. Not a lot of low end on the kick either, I noticed! Listening in my car, I didn't feel the "oomph" of the kick drum I usually feel with other mixes.

Just hoping someone can help me out a bit.

Thanks :)

I bought a Rode NT4, and it's awesome. I'm super new to recording drums, and having a fixed xy microphone gives me a lot less to stress about while learning the ropes.

The only placement I've tried is 30-40 inches directly above the center of the snare, with one microphone pointing at the hi hat, and the other one pointed at about the ride cymbal. (pretty much directly left and right)

It's a good sound when hard panned, but I really want to experiment, given that I have this cool microphone. I've heard people say that rotating the microphone such that they point at the rack and floor tom goves you a wider stereo image, and more spread with the toms, and it fascinates me. Would I still have it directly above the snare? or would it go between the two toms? And I don't even want to imagine all the placements I could do that aren't directly above the snare! I'm curious to see where I could get the snare to land in the stereo image.

I was just wondering if anyone had some tips, cool tricks, interesting placements, or general advice regarding xy overheads, so that I could try them.

Thanks :)