Best place for a single microphone in a small room.
I've decided to try improve the quality of my drum cover recordings from the 'video camera with electricians tape over the mic' standard I was using before!
To this end I've got myself a proper mixer and borrowed a decent mic to go with it (AKG c1000). This all works nicely and gives me the opportunity to mix in the backing track rather than blasting it out over the speakers.
However, I only the one mic to record with, and my drum room is tiny. The kit is hard up against two walls, and my back is on the third, so the accoustics are going to be quite tight and I don't have any opportunity to put the mic '5ft in front of the kit' as I've seen recommended elsewhere. Here's a pic to give a better idea of the layout. The camera here is hard into the corner beind the pov, so there is a wall immediately out of shot to the left, and another to the right.
So, any ideas on where the best position is likely to be to get a reasonably well balanced recording? I appreciate that anything is going to be a compromise in such close quarters with only a single mic, and I'm not looking for pro quality. But equally I'd like to get the best I can out of it.
At present I have the mic (in a heavy desktop stand) on top of a bookcase on the left hand wall (out of shot to the left in the pic), which puts it about six and a half feet in the air, with a wal behind and angled slightly up to the ceiling. But would a lower position be better?
Any ideas or advice appreciated!
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