Positioning the microphone
Kick drums
Position | Resulting sound | Commentary |
| Much attack, | Position the microphone |
| little resonance, | at a distance of a few |
| dry | centimeters from the |
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| batter head. |
| Less attack, | Position the microphone |
| much resonance, | at the level of the |
| smooth, | resonant head. |
| voluminous |
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| Less attack | Position the microphone |
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| in the middle between |
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| the batter head and the |
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| attack in all three |
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| positions, |
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| turn the microphone |
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| away from where the |
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| beater strikes. |
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. 180°; see polar diagram).
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