In article .com,
wrote:
why is close micing like this an "effect", and why would i not like it
clean?

Just that a lot of the sound that people expect from large drums comes
from microphone breakup. Throw a B&K on there and a 421, and the 421
will tend to sound more like what people expect it to sound like, even
though the B&K is a lot more accurate.

On top of that you have the problem that most playback gear can't even
come close to reproducing the fundamental notes of large drums. You
put a nice clean drum hit on the recording and it just doesn't come
across well on small speakers.

I have a recording of kodo drums made with a pair of B&K 4145 microphones
somewhere on the next-to-last (or is it the last?) RAP compilation CD set.
It's amazing on a serious playback system and it has stuff in the sub-10 Hz
region on it. On a boom box it falls apart.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."