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<blockquote data-quote="kristianjohnsen" data-source="post: 40546" data-attributes="member: 441">Re: Bongos, mic techniques?This was rather a surprise when I first discovered it:I had a gig where the guy playing bongos insisted no mics be &quot;in the way&quot; so micing them like a typical snare drum was out of the question, so we tried out different settings and much to my suprise I had good results with a dynamic with a relatively wide pickup pattern placed midway between the two drums pointing straight up towards the ceiling, with the tip of the mic grill flush with the drum skins, plus a overhead condenser high above.&nbsp; Obviously, S/N ratio goes down, but bongos are pretty loud to begin with so the &quot;contamination&quot; wasn&#039;t an issue for me.Sometimes experiments yield unexpected results <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="kristianjohnsen, post: 40546, member: 441"] Re: Bongos, mic techniques? This was rather a surprise when I first discovered it: I had a gig where the guy playing bongos insisted no mics be "in the way" so micing them like a typical snare drum was out of the question, so we tried out different settings and much to my suprise I had good results with a dynamic with a relatively wide pickup pattern placed midway between the two drums pointing straight up towards the ceiling, with the tip of the mic grill flush with the drum skins, plus a overhead condenser high above. Obviously, S/N ratio goes down, but bongos are pretty loud to begin with so the "contamination" wasn't an issue for me. Sometimes experiments yield unexpected results :) [/QUOTE]

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