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<blockquote data-quote="Art Welter" data-source="post: 96555" data-attributes="member: 52">Re: Halfway-Overhead drum mics?For jazzy drummers with lots of dynamic range, you can&#039;t rely on noise gates for separation, so placement becomes more critical.The mic placement in post #3 would increase separation between the left cymbal and hi-hat and snare which are in an acoustical &quot;shadow&quot; created by the cymbal.The same high frequency &quot;shadow&quot; might be separating the right cymbal from the floor tom, if there is a floor tom.Placing the mics forward also increases the separation simply from an inverse distance standpoint, this placement could afford around 10 dB more separation than typical &quot;overhead&quot; placement, reducing the crosstalk&nbsp; and phase differential&nbsp; between mics acoustically by about half.The forward placement also tends to line up better with the kick mic, for ballads when you might only want kick and OH for a more natural sound everything is slightly more real when acoustic path length differences are reduced.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Art Welter, post: 96555, member: 52"] Re: Halfway-Overhead drum mics? For jazzy drummers with lots of dynamic range, you can't rely on noise gates for separation, so placement becomes more critical. The mic placement in post #3 would increase separation between the left cymbal and hi-hat and snare which are in an acoustical "shadow" created by the cymbal. The same high frequency "shadow" might be separating the right cymbal from the floor tom, if there is a floor tom. Placing the mics forward also increases the separation simply from an inverse distance standpoint, this placement could afford around 10 dB more separation than typical "overhead" placement, reducing the crosstalk and phase differential between mics acoustically by about half. The forward placement also tends to line up better with the kick mic, for ballads when you might only want kick and OH for a more natural sound everything is slightly more real when acoustic path length differences are reduced. [/QUOTE]

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