Thomas Bishop
November 16th 03, 01:45 PM
"miller" > wrote in message
> I recently had a prominent engineer/producer tell me that he used to
> duct tape SM57s to snare stands, pointing directly to the snare for
> bottom mic'ing a snare in order to avoid having to deal with stands..
> Anyone else do this? Wouldn't the resonating of the stand create some
> funky som'tin' som'tin'?
They make stand adapters specifically for this purpose. Look in Interstate
Music or some similar catalog. I'd much rather deal with a stand adapter
than trying to position a mic with duct tape.
> I recently had a prominent engineer/producer tell me that he used to
> duct tape SM57s to snare stands, pointing directly to the snare for
> bottom mic'ing a snare in order to avoid having to deal with stands..
> Anyone else do this? Wouldn't the resonating of the stand create some
> funky som'tin' som'tin'?
They make stand adapters specifically for this purpose. Look in Interstate
Music or some similar catalog. I'd much rather deal with a stand adapter
than trying to position a mic with duct tape.