When miking a snare you may find you get a bloody awful ringing sound that cuts though your whole mix and sounds like crap. The first thing you should do is try and deaden the sound with some putty or tape and see if that makes the sound workable.
If you’re still not happy it’s time [...]

Miking an acoustic guitar is quite straight forward once you get the hang of it. The best results I’ve had are to use a couple of good dynamic microphones with one at the sound hole and the other near the head stock.
This gives you a very natural sounding acoustic and is perfect as a pad [...]

The May Internal Miking System is becoming increasingly popular these days with the worlds top producers, as a way to really get the maximum clarity form the drum sound.
The benefits are obvious with very little leakage / feedback and for the drummer it’s a dream to be able to do the recording without fear of [...]

Amp miking techniques are quite simple, but it always takes me a good few hours to get the sound just right before I’m ready to get on with the recording.
Let me explain…
The process would be to get the drummer to lay down his parts then use Pro Tools virtual tracks to audition all different mic [...]

The first thing to consider when miking kick drum for recording is the quality of the drum itself, and the kind of work it needs to sound half decent on your track. In most cases a cheaper kick drum will require more padding and tuning to give it the thud that listeners are use to. [...]

Vocal miking techniques are quite simples really and it all starts with the mic. If you are on a budget I would suggest the Studio Projects B1 condenser mic as my split test have shown that this is one of the only mics under $150 that can really compete with the big boys.
The next thing [...]

One thing to remember when miking electric guitar amps for your home studio project, is that the sound from the player’s point of view can be very different from what the miking system is picking up. So pro guitarists always make sure to get nice and low to the amp and check out what the [...]

Sometimes the best option when miking a bass is not to use any miking at all. This may sound a bit strange but recently I have been running a few experiments with just plugging the bass straight into the Audio interface.
Of course the sound depends very much on the quality of the audio interface you [...]

Here are a couple of guitar amp miking techniques that I have found very useful over the years.
The problem with miking up an amp is that it sounds very different from the perspective of the player standing above the sound than it does for the microphone right in front of it. So make sure you [...]

If you’re looking into miking a Flute you have a couple of options to consider which will add or take away from the overall warmness in your recording.
There are a number of clip-on options out there that will give you various results depending on the price. Remember that the more you pay for a mic [...]