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• Room set:<br />
Neumann U87’s recorded through Avalon preamps.<br />
They were placed 15 ft. back from the bass drum, each at a 45 degree angle from<br />
the kit.<br />
A room set like this is often mixed in mono and set back 10 to 24 dB. It provides a<br />
nice ‘filler’ for the drum tone, and adds a live room flavour.<br />
• PZM set:<br />
Crown PZM microphones at floor level recorded through API preamps and Empirical<br />
Labs Distressors set at 3:1 compression ratio with a gentle threshold (removing<br />
0 to 6dB depending on drum-hit velocity). This compression stage was added<br />
in order to bring more body and sustain to the PZM recordings.<br />
Their placement was 10 ft. back from the bass drum, each at a 45 degree angle<br />
from the kit, forming a right-angle intersecting bass drum trajectory.<br />
PZM’s are also good ‘filler’ as they capture a good room tone and drum trajectory/<br />
stereo image not captured by the other mics.<br />
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