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One day I'm gonna try one for field recording, you know like John Travolta in Blowout?

Also see Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock's "Aktion 980605 San Francisco; For Piano and Shotgun" for other uses (I'll leave it to R&G fans as to what kind of shotgun he's using though).

I have a pair of Ultraphones and love them. If they weren't $220 a pair I'd buy 10 of them.

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Try the cheaper mics if you've got them. And yeah, using the mic like an instrument (as Mr. Date suggests) is a good tool... like, you know, being able to cup it with your hands, hold it at weird angles... the artist needs to feel the control that he really does have. For some things, a nice tube or...

Just do it man!

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Scroll down for lots of drum micing techniques and gear suggestions.

HuskerDude wrote:Anything but rock.

yeah, I'm with you.

Bottom line for me: Pierres Sacrees and the rest of EDMN 1003 by Iancu Dumitrescu. Pure jaw-dropping amazement every single time. An electro-accoustic masterpiece worthy of the highest praise imaginable. I feel good knowing it's there for me.

Check Dean Elliot... setting the tone in 1963. His ears caught the rhythm of a cement mixer nearby, and he started snapping his fingers in synch with the mixer's gyrations. 'This has a terrific beat,' thought Elliot. 'How would it go with a melody?' Thus was born the woofer-wasting, tweeter-trashing...

Greenlander wrote:Has everyone else got their copies? I never got one, although I think I'm pretty much at the end of the list.

Nope, I never got mine either... I am also at the end of the line.

I have never used a 301, but I do own a 201 and a 501. When I first got the 201, the tape was really old and for whatever reason (I never really tried to figure out how or why) it wouldn't erase with each pass over the heads, so you could play to previous loops, and eventually (like days or weeks), ...

Hey, when you guys DI bass signal with the SansAmp, do you go into it direct from the bass, or from the amp line, or from either depending on desired sound? Just curious...

A long time ago while tuning a drum set, I came accross what it sounds you're after. Mind you, it was an 18" tom, but you know. Anyways, I had both heads off after cleaning the tom, and had just started putting a new beater head on (I forget the exact kind, but it was pretty heavy and clear). I had ...

It's not going to help you decide which gear to use where, and I don't know what kind of stuff you most regularly work on, but I recommend listenning to Iancu Dumitrescu's "Medium III" for solo contrabass (upright bass) to get a good frame of reference going into a project like what you described. A...

If I were you, I would take your best condenser mic and your best mic pre, whatever they are (they don't need to be anything special) and I would put that mic 5-10 feet in front of the drum set waist high or so. I would record the drums like that for a test, to get an idea of what the drums sound li...