Over the passed six months while studying a diploma in music and continuing on to a bachelor in Audio I have been given access to a full functioning recording studio at SAE QANTM Brisbane campus. During this time I have learned several recording techniques and how to use several different interfaces and recording/ mixing consoles to help me produce and work on a higher quality of audio projects.The first thing you should know when planning to record an artist in a studio (other then learning the console) is learning mic placements. Microphone placements are important so that you are able to capture the most raw and most natural sound that something can make.
For the particular project our group used the x-y and the ORTF microphone methods with two cardioid microphones (both Sm57) as that is what gave us the sound that we were aiming for. We chose these microphones due to the results in the image below. We did a microphone shootout and tested AT2050, Rode Nt2 a, Sm58 and the Sm57 and found that the Sm57 was the cleanest and most authentic sound that you can capture from a snare drum.
Here are the audio clips to hear for yourself the difference in the sound picked up from each of the microphones tested.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cRCDWpf9yAPJF7wdHRK48CHGwsh_CclF
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