Sound stuff...

Someone asked me the other day about how I have my drums mic'd up at home so I can either play along to a CD track and/or just play but have control over the volume. If my kit was electronic, it would be simple but since I have acoustic drums, it gets a good bit more complicated.

Toms = Each has a Shure Beta 98
Kick = Shure Beta 91
Hi-Hat = Shure SM81
Over head = 2 - Shure KSM37's

I don't mic my snare at home since it comes through the overheads quite clearly. All the mics plus a feed from my metronome and a CD player go into an Alesis 12-channel mixer. I also have 3 - dbx 266XL compressor/gates that I can use in addition to a TC Electronics M-One XL reverb processor I can use to add ambience to the sound. Anyway, I have a set of isolation headphones that plug into the Alesis that lets me hear what I'm doing without me going deaf.

At church, I have a simpler setup because of the limitations of our current PA system.

Snare = Shure SM57
Kick = AKG D112
Overhead = Audix SCX One

There I use Shure E5 in-ears through my Shure PSM600 wireless system. Ta-dow.

If you've got any questions, just leave a comment and I'll try and help out.