Hello, I'm experimenting with this subject as we are speaking.
The thing is, I'm experiencing problems with getting GOOD sound together with both kick and snare dead center (when aiming for capturing full sounding kit with both shells and cymbals on a single bassdrum kit) with the A/B spaced technique.
If I'm getting them dead center, the sound is somewhat lacking (becouse of having to change microphone placement), to get them dead center I have to raise the mic's above the kit and put them equal distance from snare and kick drum)
The "best" sound according to me, is when placing the mic's close to the ears, or a little wider than the ears, this gives a very balanced frequency response of the drums and all the drums sounds great, but the snare and bass drum will not be in center and the stereo image a litte bit fucked up.
I actually can get the snare centered, but then the bassdrum will be out far to the right and with these mic's in the position described above it's really sounding "full" and defined which gives me problems when increasing OH's level
So my questions is:
1. how am I supposed to approach this to get this full sounding OH's and a balanced and good stereo image?
2. What do you guys prefer when OH micing, taking much cymbals alone and letting the close mics handle the shells? Or capture the whole kit and "rely" on the OH's more?
3. When the mix is dense, and the close mic'd snare/bassdrum and possibly some trigged samples is up, will a slight non-centered snare and bassdrum matter much? could I live with it if it results in better sounding OH's?
I'm using Cad m179 mic's, great mic's by the way!
