u/bigmanlittlebike89

Hey**,** so I'm trying to work with the philosophy of it's the music that matters, and not the gear so I've been trying to repurpose as many mics as I have that I own for other things to work. With that being said: I am trying to get a more vintage late 60s drum sound like Hendrix or the Zombies.

My background has always been acoustic guitar and vocals only.

My kit - mid 2000s Tama Imperial Star with Sabian XSR Commuter Cymbal Set

Mics:

Kick Drum - AKG P2 Bought for bass mic but I think should work great here? - planning to put just outside of the port hole to get a little more boom and less thud

Snare - SM 57 angled about 2 inches of the side of the top. An old t-shirt cut into a circle placed over the top head and an Evans o ring being used.

OH - matching pair of Rhode M5s I use for acoustic guitar. Will do the same distance to each side of kit based off snare drum to avoid phase, about 4 feet above?

Hi tom - SM 58

Mid Tom - Phonic UM 99 Running out of mics here.. haha

Floor Tom - SM7b (a gift to me once for recording vocals, probably my best mic I own, but probably better on floor tom vs snare? )

All tom mics, angled and placed about 2 inch above rim of each side of drum.

Recording into the M-Audio Air 192 / 14. Used Cakewalk most of my life, and now trying Cubase because band lab went off the deep end.

Any tips of placement or if I'm making any glaring mistakes? All the above is what I've been able to gather from youtube vids of how to record drums.

Last note - I record in my basement and will only have very short times to capture because I have a newborn. Main reason for posting here are I don't have the time luxury of time to compare and contrast a million different set ups. When the kiddo is on a walk with mom, it's go time for me.

UPDATE: after all of your the feedback, I think I will be going try and simplify with doing the Glynn Johns method. I'll be doing the M5s as the overheads respectively, the SM 57 on the kick, and the SM7b on the Snare (just in case I meed more stare)

My wife and I have an infant. Currently we own both a fully paid off 2017 Tacoma and 2018 Rav4. Both less that 75k miles. We love our cars but after we add the dog and car seat, it is nearly impossible to fit anything else.

We recently rented a bigger SUV (2025 Yukon) for a trip which we also brought grandma, and the additional space has been a game changer.

We both work from home and can easily be a one car family at this point. I'm wondering if it's time to sell both cars and upgrade to one big SUV. We live in the mountains, and love everything outdoors.

We can obviously make the Rav or Taco work for now with one kid, but once we have another, it's definitely going to be harder.

New and used car markets look completely different since the last time we bought in 2019... Am I just getting car fever, or should I start seriously looking into this ?

Another side note is I love working on our own cars, doing oil changes, tire rotations, etc. Newer cars seem to be very very hard for consumers to do now.

We live in a mid range COL area, combined household income over 200k. No debt besides our mortgage.

Finding it so hard to justify these costs of newer vehicles, even used ones... Any thoughts would be appreciated.