Samson Audio! We understand that the sound of your drum kit is extremely personal and important to your livelihood, so we carefully designed the 7KIT as a complete solution specifically for miking your drum kit. The 7KIT includes the QKICK for your bass drum, a QSNARE for your snare drum, and for your tom-toms, three QTOM mics will more than “fill-in”.
7KIT Features Features The Samson 7KIT utilizes state-of-the-art microphone technology and each micro- phone is engineered to the finest detail for the drum it is to be used on. Here are some of the 7KIT’s main features: • Seven piece percussion microphone kit including one QKICK bass drum mic, one QSNARE snare drum mic, three QTOM tom-tom mics and a matched pair of C02 studio condensers for overheads.
Installing the QSNARE and QTOM to your drums with the integral DMC100 mic clip is easy. Follow the simple steps below to install the DMC100 mic clips to your drum kit. • First, get the DMC100 ready for instal- lation. Release the tension on the upper and lower thumbscrews by turn- ing them counter-clockwise.
• The 7KIT drum microphones have cardioid pick up patterns, which means they pick up sound directly in front of the microphone, and reject the sound behind the microphone. This means in order to get the best separation between the drum you want to pick up in a particular mic and the ambient sound around it, let’s say your cymbals or other drums, you can aim the mic so that it is facing...
Using the 7KIT Application Guide The following section will describe some basic miking techniques for the various drums in your kit. Use this as a guideline, but remember every sound system, every room, every drum kit and every drummer is slightly different, so experiment around until you find the sound that’s right for you.
Microphone Wiring Guide The 7KIT mics can be connected to any mixer, mixer/amplifier, or mic preamp using a standard microphone cable. As shown in the wiring diagrams below, con- nect the female XLR end directly to the microphone’s gold-plated connector and the other end (normally a male XLR end, although some mixers use 1/4"...
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