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From: Repulsive <repulsive@...>

> Hello together
> I've following questions:
> - How do you record the bassdrum?
>   Until now, i put the microphone (from AKG) some centimeters before the
> hole. By concert i've often seen, that the microphone was direct in the
> bassdrum itself. But i can not get good results with this method.

Okay, here is what I do in live situations:
- I always place the mic in the kick drum, about 2 to 4 inches(5 to 10 cm)
away from the drum skin where the pedal hits.
- Always put the mic of center and near where the pedal hits if you want
that click sound when the kick drum is kicked.
- Use damping material like a blanket or clothes to prevent standing waves
within the kick drum, otherwise you'll get that boomy sound.
- Use some compression on the signal from the mic.

> - How do you make the bassdrum more audible on cheap hifi-systems or
> headphone?

You can't unless you have very expensive headphones. Still because headphone
only have a very little diapragm they can't produce waves of low frequencies
with large amplitudes.
With a cheap hifi system you can try by adding the loudness.

> - Once, someone told me, that with professional mixingdesk you can add a
> sinuswave (around 60Hz or something) to the bassdrum, to make it sound
> 'better'. How can i do that with Logic? Until now i add some overdrive to
> make it sound wider.

You can use sidechaining as has been discussed on the LUG. But I know a much
easier way to do this in Logic: use a multiband compressor. There is one
free VST one that I like to use often. It's on the Maxim site at
www.abel.co.uk/~maxim
You can also use the bass to enhance the kick drum by playing with the eq on
both; set the kick cut where the frequencies of the bass are, that's at
about 80Hz.

> - Do you think this is too much ot???

Isn't this the Off Topic list?

> Greatings
> Rolf Gr\ufffdninger

Good luck,
Yoonchi.

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