We are looking out for extreme or 'overkill' studio techniques. This is great fun and does throw up some interesting topics for consideration when talking about mic choice and placement during music production sessions at Strode College
- When is OK to use this many mics in a kick drum?
- Do we need this many choices during a mixing session?
- Maybe this is more to cover up a lack of experience or production direction during recording?
Photo taken from a wonderful SOS article. Please go read it
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun08/articles/kickandsnare.htm
- How would the drummer fit into this?
- Maybe this should become standard for live sound?
- How many drummers does it take to change a light bulb?
- Maybe, in this case the joke could be focused more on the recording engineer or the microphone(?)
How many microphone does it take to get a good snare sound?
I don't know, how many microphones does it take to record a snare sound?
1 for the crack, 1 for the sizzle, 1 for the top, 1 for the bottom... (Hold on, that doesn't work as there are 16 more mics under the snare)
Photo taken from here. Again, this is a great article. Well worth a read
http://hubpages.com/entertainment/How-to-Record-Drums-Mic-Placement
