John's studio is very nicely set up - soft material on walls and ceiling plus shag carpet make the studio suitably dead acoustically. Audix drum mics are good, and the Zoom recording console gives great results. I'm looking into picking up old broken bookshelf monitors to cannibalized for the woofers - I'm going to build sub kick mikes to supplement the Audix set. John's huge 12 pc kit will take all tracks of the 16 available so I'll have to create mono mix waves with click for him to play with. Mike list as follows: Audix plus subkick per kick drum, sm57 top with Audix bottom on snare, then 1 Audix per mounted Tom pair with each floor Tom getting a mike. Rotos get two mics, hihat 1 sm57, ride 1 mike, and a pair of condensers in x pattern hung above drummer's head. This makes up all available room on the Zoom.
Now, for my studio, I have only the sm57 on hihat, ride and the condensers above in x pattern. The 2box covers off all drums. An Alesis control pad handles special f/x instruments.
We've decided to pick n choose what kit per song - use what's appropriate depending on the material. John will be coming out to The Grotto next weekend and give the Spacemuffins a test drive.
Finally - got the Muse Receptor today. I need to read postings more closely - there is a hard drive failure on the unit that needs replacement. Not to worry - I'm in contact with support @ Muse Tech and looking at options to fix this baby. I have high hopes for the system and this doesn't dampen them.
In the meantime I have my work cut out rewriting lyrics for a couple tunes... I also built a cymbal bell rig - it's above the 6 & 8 inch toms to the right of the kick. I also also am selling the Novation for those interested. $300 takes it away.
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