Summary of DK7
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User’s guide dk7 drumkit™.
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Congratulations on your purchase of the earthworks dk7 drumkit™ high defini- tion multi-microphone drum system. You will be thrilled with the results you will obtain when using the included microphones. You will hear more detail in the attack in addition to hearing subtle low level details that are ...
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Important notice - please read this: drums and microphone output level the sr25, dm20 & sr20ls have been designed for drum applications, and in most cases will not require the use of a pad to prevent overloading outboard microphone preamps, preamps in mixers or consoles and computer audio in- terfac...
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If it becomes necessary to lower the microphone output level to avoid over- loading the preamp, then the use of an xlr-type outboard pad is suggested. The earthworks® levelpad™ xlr-type outboard mic pad provides 20db of attenuation and can be simply plugged into the microphone cable. The level- pad™...
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Earthworks drum mics the earthworks drumkit™ high definition three-microphone systems™ have had great success because they pick up drum sounds with far more detail and accuracy than conventional microphones. This improved sound quality is due to proprietary technologies utilized in earthworks high d...
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5 vantages and disadvantages of each. Every engineer or producer uses their own methods to obtain the results they desire, and that’s what matters. Multi-microphone method the objective in multi-microphone drum miking is to place a separate micro- phone on most or all the elements of a drum set. Typ...
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Nearly twice the amount of rear rejection one of the typical disadvantages in the multi-microphone approach is picking up the unwanted sound of other elements of the drum set from the rear of each microphone. Conventional microphones provide only 18db of rear rejec- tion, while earthworks microphone...
Page 9: Dm20 Drummic™ Microphones
7 close miking toms and snares with the dm20 drummic™ microphones inserting the dm20 microphone into the rm1 rimmount the rm1 is designed specifically for the dm20 allowing you to mount the mi- crophone on the side of a tom or snare. The rm1 can also be used on the top or bottom of a tom or snare. I...
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8 soft polyolefin® coated metal bracket rubber holder delrin® cushioned rim-guide hook portion of bracket thumbscrew figure 7-a. Elements of the rm1 rimmount™ referring to figure 7-b, notice that on the delrin® cushioned rim-guide there are two sets of grooves. One groove is in the “center” of the r...
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9 adjusting the microphone height once the rimmount™ is mounted securely on the drum rim with the dm20 microphone housed in the rubber holder, the microphone body can be moved either up or down in the rubber holder to provide the desired height. Then the gooseneck will provide a good amount of latit...
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10 the high acoustic sound levels of close miked drums in close miking drums, one should keep in mind that the acoustic sound level at the microphone head is extremely high. Microphones used for close miking drums should be able to handle at least 140db spl in order to prevent audible distortion. Th...
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You will notice in figure 11-a the microphone head is placed closer to the drum rim, while in figure 11-b the microphone head is aimed toward the center of the drumhead by changing the position of the gooseneck. Experiment with the mi- crophone head placement as the sound or tone can change with var...
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12 a b figure 12-a figure 12-b horizontal x/y positioning vertical x/y positioning figures 12-a and 12-b show two variations of x/y microphone placement. For microphone “height” we suggest that you start with the microphone approxi- mately 2 feet above the drummer’s head. Moving them down will provi...
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13 miking the hi-hat there are many various approaches to miking a hi-hat. We suggest that you use an sr25 or dm20 and place it approximately two inches above the top hi-hat cymbal (see fig 14-a). You can also place the microphone under the hi-hat in relatively the same position as shown in figure 1...
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14 miking a kickdrum with a hole in the front head if there is a hole in the front head of the kickdrum, do not place the mic directly in front, or slightly inside of the hole as there will be a large burst of air hitting the microphone. The velocity of the air is dramatically reduced when placing t...
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15 using the kickpad™ t he kickpad is a passive signal processor that requires no phantom power and will not interfere with the phantom power for your microphone. It can be inserted directly into the xlr connector on the microphone, or somewhere in the mic cable you to get the nice fat bottom end in...
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16 between the microphone and the mixer input, or, it can be plugged directly into the microphone input of the mixer. A good kickdrum microphone must be designed and optimized for that specific purpose, which means that particular microphone would be great for kickdrum and little else. Instead, we d...
Page 20: Sr25 Cardioid
Made in u.S.A. Earthworks, inc. 37 wilton rd. Milford, nh 03055 603-654-2433 email: sales@earthworksaudio.Com www.Earthworksaudio.Com printed in u.S.A. Sr25 cardioid for overheads, high hat minimum output load 600Ω, balanced between pins 2&3 noise weight .35lb (160g) frequency response polar pattern...