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Page 2: Important Notice
® WARRANTY FIFTEEN-YEAR WARRANTY All Earthworks products carry a fifteen-year limited warranty (parts and labor). If you have any problems with your Earthworks products, please contact our warranty/ repair department by email at: returns@earthworksaudio.com or by telephone at (603) 654-6427, Ext. 19. - Page 3 Today, more and more engineers are moving toward using fewer microphones on drums. This is especially applicable as newer technologies in microphones can provide startling results with fewer microphones. Earthworks incorporates these new advanced technologies in their High Definition Microphones...
- Page 4 Earthworks: the New Science in Microphones David Blackmer, the brilliant engineer who invented the technologies of dbx, is also the inventor and founder of Earthworks. In the last few years of his life, David developed a number of revolutionary technologies that dramatically improve the quality and performance of microphones.
- Page 5 Figure 4 shows where the microphones are pointed. This was the miking technique used on tracks 27 and 28 of the enclosed Earthworks DK25 DrumKit System Demo CD. All...
- Page 6 All of the microphone positionings shown in Figures 1-4 should provide excellent results using the Earthworks DrumKit three microphone system. If you prefer the sound of multi-miked drums, then using one of these positionings in Figures 1-4 for your overhead microphones will provide terrific results. You can hear the results on tracks 14 and 15 of the enclosed DK25 DrumKit Demo CD.
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Page 7: Important Please Read
Important Please Read The Earthworks SR30 supplied for miking kick drum is a precision condenser microphone and is sensitive to large bursts of air. However, this microphone, used properly, will produce an incredible kick drum sound. For optimum results it is crucial to place the SR30 at a 45 degree angle to the head (which reduces the air burst at the front of the microphone).