| Miking a Kick Drum with a Baffle Around It
This technique is great for isolating your kick drum from the other drums in the room. It also adds a little more air and distance to the sound of your kick.
- Take the front head off the kick drum. (The end that faces an audience during a performance.)
- Adjust the booms of two microphone stands to be about the height of the kick drum (2-4 feet) and place their bases on either side of the drum but a few feet out from the front.
- Drape thick blankets over the stands to create a sound tunnel this will isolate the kick mic from the other cymbals and drums.
- Place a condenser microphone or a kick drum mic at the opposite end of the tunnel from the kick drum, about a foot off of the floor and aim it at the kick drum.
Quality kick drum mic's include: AKG's D112 and Shure's Beta 52
SOURCES:
Recording and Producing in the Home Studio ~ A Complete Guide – David Franz
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