Huge Drums.......

Drum session with Ossie Bowe last night.

Ten microphones on one drum kit!!

What a night. Ossie has a project that he is working on. Its an album for a local band. At least one of the songs has programmed drums, I'm not sure if all do. Ossie was not happy with the drums and wanted to put real drums on the track.

So last night I set the room up with nine mics all over the drum kit.
Of course when Ossie arrived he added one more in a special (secret)position.
After an hour or so of tweaking and setting the mics we started tracking.
Awesome sound! Ossie completely took full advantage of my room. The drums sounded big and punchy. The drummer that Ossie brought is a church drummer who's name escapes me, did a great job.
All in all it was a great experience and I learned allot of techniques that I will be putting into practice. However, I am still not a fan of using a million microphones on a drum kit. Four or five is more than enough unless you are going for a specific effect, IMO.

Tonight.

Acoustic guitar with Peter Peters.

This is going to be great. I love recording guitars, especially acoustic.
Peter has a rhythm track to do for one song and an intro and bridge to do for another.
He will be using my lovely Gibson 160e. I will mic the guitar with a single Beyerdynamic M130 Ribbon mic into my Grace 101 mic pre. I will also run it into the Lucas tube EQ, just because I can.
Peter also wants to try another vocal run on one of the first three songs if we have time.

So much music, so little time.