What do you need to mic your drum set?

Answer 1

It depends on where you are, and what size building you are playing in. if you are in a small-medium hall, then most kits will be able to carry their sound over the rest of the music without needing amplifications at all, apart from maybe a mic underneath the hi-hat to pick up them and the snare. For large gigs, stadiums and the such, or recording, most people use: 1 capacitor mic above the ride 1 capacitor above the crash 1 capacitor above by the high hats 1 unidirectional mic by the snare, 1 by high tom, 1 by low tom, 1 by floor tom, and 1 by bass drum. This covers 8 tracks right there - and normally in recording practices you actually use 2 tracks per instrument, say track 1 cranked over to full left channel and track 2 cranked over to full right channel. This is what produces the true stereo effect.

Answer 2

To Mic up a drum kit is trial and error most times the mic is positioned on a stand just above the drum head, boom mic stands are used to get the mic closer in to the drums, the bass drum mic is placed to the front of the drum, a mic on a boom stand is normally placed over head to pick up the cymbals. Its trial and error with it to find the best place for each mic to get the best sound.

These days the mic stand is not always needed and there is a system for micing up the drums with small mics that clip to the metal rim of the drum using a mini clip although the bass drum or kick drum normally has a larger mic that requires a stand.

Answer 3

This is easy. If you are using a standard dynamic cardioid microphone (like the Shure SM58), simply adjust the microphone stand so that the microphone is close to the bridge of the cello. Make sure the microphone is stable so that it does not fall, and make sure the cellist has enough room to manuver. If you are using a small diaphragm condensor microphone, you can place it several feet in front of the cello and it will pick it up very well. Or you can use a pickup, which can be purchased at your local instrument store, and simply plug the pickup into an amplifier.

Answer 4

Basically any mics can be used but the proper equipment will be:

• A set of tom-tom mics
• Instrument mics with stands (for the cymbals)
• A kick drum mic with stand
• Mic cables, cabling from the amplifier to the mixer, speaker cables
• Mixer
• Amplifier
• Speakers

Answer 5

• A kick drum mic with stand
• A mic cable, a cable from the amplifier to the mixer, 2 x speaker cables
• Mixer
• Amplifier
• Bass speakers

If its a small live gig where you don't need too much sound, you could get away with using a standers mixer with its speaker but be careful though, you could pop the cones in the speakers. So it is not advised. You can also use a normal mic without a stand and just lie it on the pillow in your kick/bass drum.

Note: Always make sure of the type of connections on cables before purchasing.