PREFERRED NECK/BODY WOODS?

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Bonus questions..............when you are miking up drums which mics require phantom power? Do you use a subkick or just a kick mic, and whether you use one or both........where would you put them? Do you guys use single mics for your snares or double mic them and use a gate effect on one mic? Is Audix something to shred on or something you might find useful for drums during a concert? :-) Your turn.
 
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you are a reprehensible and pitiful excuse for intelligent life.
 
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I prefer Mahogany or Northern/Hard Ash for bodies. Additionally, I prefer a One Piece Body with a 2 Piece Center Seam being the second choice.

Maple Fretboard Necks are always the preference, although I don't currently own a gutar with one.
 
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muttznmongrelz said:
I prefer Mahogany or Northern/Hard Ash for bodies. Additionally, I prefer a One Piece Body with a 2 Piece Center Seam being the second choice.

Maple Fretboard Necks are always the preference, although I don't currently own a gutar with one.
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Thanks, Sir!
 
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CTN said:
let's be honest here...he makes drummers look good!
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Drummers are good! Most of the good guitar players I know also play the rest of the instruments in the band (keys, bass, drums, maybe a wind instrument). Music schools past high school correctly require you learn additional instruments in order to truly understand music and even guitar. You guys sound like you play guitar well too...........what other instruments have you mastered? Kind of funny reading your comments on drummers when for lots of the good guitar players their second instrument ends up being percussion/drums. :-)
 
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Phantom power goes to condenser, pressure zone and some electret microphones.

With a skilled drummer and a well-prepared kit, I could happily record with just three mics. Two overheads plus one to balance the kick drum with the rest of the drum set. I like things kinda ragged. (THINK: Ron Asheton playing cardboard cartons on The Stooges Legendary In-Store Appearance video.) I deliberately overload analogue tape. I often use bit reduction or extreme filtering processes in recording software.

There is an argument for positioning microphones both above and below the snare drum. The disadvantage of mic'ing every little piece of the kit is phase cancellation as the signals spill onto adjacent mics.

This is one way to record drums and percussion. There are plenty of others. Please yourselves.
 
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Mahogany necks and Rosewood boards seem to work for me but lately I've been using maple necks with rosewood and digging on it
 
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Audix d6 and i5 are my go to kick and snare mics. I love them! I wanted to make a subkick before out of a speaker. Cool concept but I put a hpf on most things anyway and don't need more low end taking up headroom.

Anyway to keep on topic, a good starting point would be a swamp ash body with a one piece maple neck for single coils and a mahogany body and neck with a rosewood or ebony fretboard for humbuckers and p90s ( maple body cap optional) Those combinations have worked for years and there is a reason for it.
 
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jake_xms3_punk said:
Audix d6 and i5 are my go to kick and snare mics. I love them! I wanted to make a subkick before out of a speaker. Cool concept but I put a hpf on most things anyway and don't need more low end taking up headroom.

Anyway to keep on topic, a good starting point would be a swamp ash body with a one piece maple neck for single coils and a mahogany body and neck with a rosewood or ebony fretboard for humbuckers and p90s ( maple body cap optional) Those combinations have worked for years and there is a reason for it.
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I use a Yamaha sub for my kick drum but also use an audix for the higher frequency by placing it far in about 2 inches away from the beater/head (it gives me the kick sound while the sub gives me the low boom, a great combo to work with on the board). I use a similar strategy for my snare and have a lower frequency mic on the top and a higher one below that gives the sweeter sound....always dominated by my heavier sound from the top. A key to getting the best out of each is tweaking the frequencies so that each mic does not pick up as much from other drums as it otherwise might do - except for my overheads of course where that is the intent with special focus on my ride and crash cymbals. I have a 10 mic set up and it's been the easiest to work with for my ludwig kit.

Thanks for the recommendations.............ash and alder seem very popular and I'm noticing ash is more popular for the 50's sound.....and I'm leaning towards the one piece maple as you recommend.
For the humbuckers what about an alder body with your recommended rosewood fretboard but with a maple neck? What might that do? Thanks again!
 
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I like necks made out of the spine from a midget koala I killed with my bare hands. It gives me a br00tal tone.
 
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