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- Page 2 Congratulations on your purchase of the Earthworks DrumKit System. You will be thrilled with the results you will be able to obtain using Earthworks High Definition Microphones for miking drum sets. If you have any questions, you may contact us using the contact information on the back page of this manual.
- Page 3 Important Please Read The Earthworks SR25 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 SR25 at a 45 degree angle to the head (which reduces the air burst at the front of the microphone).
- Page 4 All of the microphone positionings shown in Figures 1-4 should provide excellent results using an Earthworks DK25 Series 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 DrumKit Demo CD.
- Page 5 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. Enter Earthworks High Definition Microphones™ incorporating advanced technology.
- Page 6 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 7 This was the miking technique utilized on tracks 27 and 28 of the Earthworks DK25 Series DrumKit System Demo CD. All other recordings of the drum set on the DrumKit Demo CD were done using the horizontal X/Y...