Positioning the microphone
Snare drums, drums and percussion instruments
Position | Resulting sound | Commentary |
| more fundamental | Position on the drum: |
| tone, | 3 – 5 cm above the |
| little overtones | drumhead and directed |
|
| towards the center of |
|
| the drumhead, the |
| less fundamental | fundamental tone to |
| tone, | overtones ratio can be |
| many overtones | adjusted via the angle. |
Snare pick-up using two microphones
Position Commentary
Use of a second microphone for picking up the bottom of the drumhead. If necessary, activate phase reversing for one of the microphones.
In order to prevent interference due to crosstalk between adjacent sound sources, try to position the microphone so that the interfering sound source is located in the angle area of the highest cancellation of the microphone (approx. 135°).
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