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    Default Cheap method of miking up your drums.

    The duct-tape solves everything DIY approach.

    Get some soundproofing material and roll it up into a tube, as tightly as you can. Then slide your headset mike down the centre of the roll so it sits firmly as far in as you can get it. Stand on end with the headset on the top of the roll, drape a blanket over the top to keep the headset in place and provide a bit more muffling, and you have a passable drum mike! It's not by any means perfect, but it works a helluva lot better than a headset mike by itself, and doesn't cost a lot - and when you can afford a proper mike set for your drums, you've then got a handy roll of soundproofing material to use on your recording room!

    Here's the result, in a room maybe 4m x 4m x, well, 4m! It's just struck me how cube-like my room is! Just a basic beat to show the kind of results you get - note how well the bass drum gets picked up.

    File is a zipped-up mp3, just extract to play.

    http://rapidshare.com/files/276876215/DrumMic1.zip.html
    Last edited by Leprechaun; 09-07-2009 at 01:25 PM. Reason: I'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling typos!
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    Not bad at all
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    I was reading Drummer the other week and they had a page on the Samson audio 7kit which is a 7 mic set up for a great price, the review was all good commenting on how you got a great sound quality for the price, which is unbelieveable! a snare mic, 3 tom mics, bass drum mic and two pencil overheads, with hardware for £190 :O
    Deffo going on the Xmas list :P
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    it's more what you know how to do than what you can afford to have to do it with
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