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<blockquote data-quote="Glen Kelley" data-source="post: 74468" data-attributes="member: 420">Re: One of my favorite drum mic techniquesThis reminds me of Manu Katche discussing the micing technique used on a Joe Satriani album he played on in the 90&#039;s: &quot;I worked once with one of the greatest producers in the world: Glyn&nbsp; Johns. He produced a Joe Satriani album I played on in 1995. He recorded&nbsp; my drums with only three tube microphones: one in the bass drum, one&nbsp; overhead above the snare drum, miking the charley, the left cymbal and&nbsp; the alto and mid tom, and one microphone above the floor tom, just under&nbsp; the ride cymbal. The sound he got was amazing! But I had to be very&nbsp; careful: with such a setup, the sound engineer is trapped. What he gets&nbsp; on tape is what the drummer played, he can&#039;t change the balance.&quot; Not what you might imagine for a rock album! He talked in another article about how he really had to watch HOW he played with this setup -- the low rumble of the floortom was there even when the drum was barely touched, but could get out of control quite quickly if either the drum or the ride cymbal were not played carefully. I&#039;m assuming the rest of the band is working to help you out using this concept live? What is the other instrumentation in this group?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glen Kelley, post: 74468, member: 420"] Re: One of my favorite drum mic techniques This reminds me of Manu Katche discussing the micing technique used on a Joe Satriani album he played on in the 90's: "I worked once with one of the greatest producers in the world: Glyn Johns. He produced a Joe Satriani album I played on in 1995. He recorded my drums with only three tube microphones: one in the bass drum, one overhead above the snare drum, miking the charley, the left cymbal and the alto and mid tom, and one microphone above the floor tom, just under the ride cymbal. The sound he got was amazing! But I had to be very careful: with such a setup, the sound engineer is trapped. What he gets on tape is what the drummer played, he can't change the balance." Not what you might imagine for a rock album! He talked in another article about how he really had to watch HOW he played with this setup -- the low rumble of the floortom was there even when the drum was barely touched, but could get out of control quite quickly if either the drum or the ride cymbal were not played carefully. I'm assuming the rest of the band is working to help you out using this concept live? What is the other instrumentation in this group? [/QUOTE]

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