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i really like my m160's for this. i usually keep them set up like this with either or both my beta52 and 4047 front of kit and possibly an m201 in the general area of the snare. i've also had luck with fat heads, mk-012's and mismatched pairs of all the aforementioned mics.

-mike

as far as sennheisers go, i'd recommend the 840's. personally, i'm a big fan of the beyerdynamic dt770's.

i don't know what's what, but my favourite is 7. followed not so closely by 3 and then 1.

tony, i find no fault with that approach. in my experience though, i usually find the sing style, timbre, desired effects, or even who sings on any particular song to vary too much for that to be my constant. i think that 90% you speak of also focuses on the beat. vocal and beat... fuck the actual m...

to touch on what subatomic pieces wrote: i often will do exactly as you say and change all that stuff, but not the drum mics. when i track (or hear) an album, i find i like at least one sonic character to remain constant throughout. i think keeping something constant makes an album sound more like a...

I've been getting really stoked on this abstraction called "presence". I feel like with a solid phase relationship, a nice well-tuned instrument, and any of several well-loved techniques you can get a starting place that can go about anywhere. It's like, if things sound real, and up-front you have ...

they came to you to record. that seems to be the hardest thing to convince a band. after that every other thing should be easy!

tell them to do their jobs and you'll do your's... and tell it to them with a smile/smirk.

-mike

everything played, recorded and mixed by me except the bridge square wave stuff which was played by rose (the singer). details by request.

DivShare File - cupcake mixed sept 1.mp3

DivShare File - hecho en mexico 1.mp3

DivShare File - banjo mixed sept 3.mp3



-mike

that song is fucking awesome!!! it's like rocket from the crypt playing with a dirgey bluegrass band with tom waits singing! (no offense to the singer if he doesn't like him... not everyone does.) but yeah, why is everything on the left side?? besides panning (and the relative volumes that it would ...

+100, vvv. i was getting excited for this one and then....bass. blah!~

i've gotten horn sections to work well together by automating the volumes of the individual horns when needed and then sending them all to the same compressor. it gets them together a bit. without hearing what you're doing i'd try that.

-mike

no one?

just recorded the first song for a new band/project of mine. i played all the instruments and my friend sang. we wrote everything together. SPECS: drums are GJ overs w/ mk-012s, beta52 on kick and m201 on snare. bass is telecaster bass through BF bassman head into 4x10 into beta52 side guitars are l...

tune your 'e' string to the 60hz, tune your 'a' string to the 'e' string, plug your guitar into a tuner and see what it reads.

-mike

no it wouldn't. you could try two cardioids facing left and right... what is it about M/S that you aren't happy with that you are striving for. i mean, if you WANT the M/S affect, why not use as few mics as possible?