I have a couple of fellows coming over to record and play something or other, perhaps not in that order, Sunday, and was setting up the drums for the drummer - heās left-handed, and it is fun to try to play that way, if youāre not, I will say - and I was putting away mics and stuff that has accumulated over the last few months and found myself wondering if my wifeās flute mic would be good on snare or something. It is really, really good. At least it is, to me. Sounds like 1974. This mic here:
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ADX10FLP/
Hi TomS:
The mic is worth a try on-or-around the snareā¦
A good snare mic should have the ability to accept high sound pressure levelsā¦
One of the first attributesā¦
AND critical placement the next thing to keep-in-mindā¦
as well as,
try not to let him accidentally smack it with one of his drum sticksā¦
Wellā¦
You knowā¦
Weāre all gonna be listening , BIG-Time at your takes to see how that snare track soundsā¦
Billā¦
This mic is tiny, really, really small, and I mounted it with one of those drum rim devices, but it is protected by an sm 57 mic clamp. I canāt quite get it positioned correctly AND in a way that protects it, but it does sound really good. Even in my basement. Weāll find out more tomorrow when the drummer comes over.
Heyā¦ that thing is RAZOR FLAT from about 150hz to about 5Khzā¦ I mean flat as my high school girlfriends chest. 120 dB Max SPL though so keep yer distance if your south-paw is a heavy handed drummer. With that kind of mic, you should be able to position it almost anywhere to achieve whatever snare āsoundā youāre looking for. Nice!
UJ
Well, whatās the max SPL for a snare at about 4 inches? We bought the mic for my wife to use on flute, and the thing is, it would sound good if she played Jethro Tull or jazz, but it sound pretty bad for celtic and classical, so it was not useful for us, but still, Iād hate to ruin it.
It appears that the mic with withstand plenty of SPLā¦ Youād have to smack a snare head pretty hard to generate 130 DBās from itā¦ Now, if you hit the mic with a stick, thatād do it, for sureā¦ That mic should work well for that snareā¦
Billā¦
Bill, it distorted, but when it was not distorting it was by far the best snare sound I have ever gotten. Bummer!
Somehow, Iām surprised that the mic did thetā¦ You sure you didnāt overload the mic strip?
and not the mic ? A snare can do that to a mic preamp pretty easyā¦
Billā¦
Well, I monitored the meters pretty closely at times while we were playing, and as far as I can tell, everything else was OK. Iāll go back and check it all out. Itād be cool if it were a problem like that.
The attack of a snare is so fast that at times the peak has passed well before the meter registers the amplitudeā¦
It donāt matter if the meters are analogue-or-digitalā¦
To anticipate the attack , drop the gain by about 15 dbā¦ Once the first stage amplifier distorts, itās all too lateā¦
The only way to fix a perfect snare track after that is, edit the track in a digital editor and replace the āHitsā with a āSampleād Snareāā¦
Well, start thereā¦
Finish, when you hear the repro of the Snare trackā¦
Thatās still a nice micā¦
Just a suggestion, of courseā¦
Billā¦