{"id":24636,"date":"2019-08-25T16:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T23:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9n2.ac0.myftpupload.com\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2019-08-25T16:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T23:23:30","slug":"ambient-drum-room-mic-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24636","title":{"rendered":"Ambient Drum \/ Room Mic Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to set up various ambient mics around this facility for some time now (19 years or so). I have some drum tracking lined up to record and finally got around to giving this a go beforehand. I set up a basic Kick\/Snare\/Hat kit and six different mic locations. Some more successful than others. The video cuts between the mic setups to showcase the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What location do you prefer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7VUmhHBjpFg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to set up various ambient mics around this facility for some time<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24636\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambient Drum \/ Room Mic Experiment<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-videos","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ambient-drum-room-mic-experiment.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24474,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24474","url_meta":{"origin":24636,"position":0},"title":"Recordinghacks.com &#8211; Kick Drum Mic Review","author":"Eric","date":"June 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently completed a rather large kick mic review over @ recordinghacks.com \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hardware&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hardware","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kick-review.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24466,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24466","url_meta":{"origin":24636,"position":1},"title":"DIY &#8211; RM-5 Ribbon Mic Build","author":"Eric","date":"May 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"So a few weeks back I snagged this ribbon mic kit over at www.diyrecordingequipment.com Really simple nice sounding mic. 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