[Mark Schmieder]

Except that Ride Cymbals are often spot-miked (though pulled way down compared to OH’s). I use a Beyerdynamic ribbon mic when live recording, but not on the other cymbals. But partly this is because I mostly do music where the Ride Cymbal is a pretty frequent carrier of the pulse (e.g. jazz). And though I tend to do mostly OH’s for jazz (the traditional way), I’ve been searching all the kits to see if ANY of them have spot mics on the ride cymbal, if only to have as an option before using processing to shape the sound more (one can “pull out” a ride from OH’s or a mix buss, using other techniques, of course).

In BFD3, almost all kits have spot mics on the rides. But then, many kits also have spots on the other cymbals, and I always defeat those. I’m in the process this month of transitioning (after many years of buying kits for both), so this was one of the hold-ups, which is why I’m finally surfing the forum tonight for the first time, and I’m glad to see ALL of my questions came up already (not so true at the other forums).

I personally found SD3 super-fast to learn and get deep on. I mostly checked this topic to see if somehow I’d missed a way to enable a spot mic on a ride cymbal. Not a big deal as I pull that and the spot mic (also a Beyer ribbon) for the hi-hat down by 20-30 dB when I’m mixing live drums anyway.

[Mark Schmieder]

Too bad he didn’t answer, but as I had the same problem a few days ago, I can say that in my case the results were incomplete and I had to manually hunt down Jazz MIDI, making guesses from other keywords such as Swing and of course less common time signatures as well.  I always consider browser based file searches to be icing on the cake though, so I don’t really go in with an expectation that they’ll find everything you expect them to.

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