Lesson 6 Mic placement- lesson 7 tracking - Posted on 2013-12-05 by Mickey Busa

Over the last month or so I've been a little behind on my blogs, but very busy at the studio with my mentor. Mic placement is everything when your dealing with recording, when your looking for that good recordable tone from whatever it may be, Micing a drum kit to guitar amps. for example, today i got to set up and break down the mics on a 5-piece drum kit. Using a spaced pair setup for overhead mics as well as the room mics. We used a blanket to muffle the kick drum because it had an open face, and a damping ring with the snare to eliminate some feedback it was creating. for the guitar amp an 87 worked great, and the same on the bass amp with a DI as well so we could turn the amp down that was producing alot of buzz.

Today i also got to see how the room lay out can be changed to fit different artists. we had the drum kit in the big room and the guitar in back left isolation and bass in back right allowing for almost complete seperation and an awesome recording session. before the tracking lesson i would have never thought about setting a band up like this assuming you would record them in the same room as if they where live, boy was i wrong.