Bonus Tips On Drum Miking!

  Positioning a bass drum mic can be awkward on a stand, and if the kit creeps across the floor it make come into contact with the stand introducing mechanical shock into the mic. Instead, if the front skin has a hole, try laying a mic on cushion inside the drum, but experiment with positioning fore and aft, and side to side, to get a good sound with the right combination of body and beater click. If an individual drum sounds great when solo'd but poor when the other mics around the kit are faded up, this could be down to phasing problems; try reversing the phase of the nearby microphones. This can be particularly important when combining mics above and below the snare, for example.
 For a rock drum sound, try balancing the close mics first and add the overheads to improve the clarity of the cymbals. For a live or jazz drum sound, use the overheads for the main balance and add close mics for a little extra focus. In both cases, take care to match the panning of the close mics to their stereo positions defined by the overheads.