ulysses wrote;

I generally put a 421 on a short telescoping straight stand underneath
the drum and point it straight up at the bottom of the snare, as close
as I can get to the bottom head.


Wayne wrote:

You doing that "as close" primarily to reduce the bleed from other drums or is
it for the depth of the tone?

Tone mostly. I don't really give a **** if I get stray drums in my
drum mikes. That's what they're for. Though I do generally try to
keep as much hi-hat out of every mike as possible. But it's the
proximity effect, I think, that makes the snare tone so beefy when I do
this. Generally I associate "bottom snare" mikes with a thin, papery,
raspy, useless sound; and top mike with a powerful, deep, useful sound
sometimes lacking in crisp snare wires detail. This is kind of the
best of both worlds.

ulysses