Sennheiser E 901 manual Positioning the microphone, Kick drums

Positioning the microphone

Kick drums

Position	Resulting sound	Commentary
	Much resonance,	Position the
	much attack	microphone at the
		bottom of the kick
	Less attack: Turn	drum, approx.
	the microphone	10–20 cm from the
	away from where	batter head.
	the beater strikes.

The 901 is used for picking up the attack, the 902 for picking up the fundamental.

Combined with an 902 positioned at

the resonant head. The lower micro- phone must be phase-reversed to avoid phase- cancellation effects due to the second microphone being on the other side of the drumskin.

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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