LEXINGTON, KY — DPA Microphones was front and center at the 2015 Kentucky Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on April 10, when artists such as Montgomery Gentry and members of the Backstreet Boys performed. Tony Cottrill, the event’s FOH engineer and Director of Live Sound for the Blackbird Academy in Nashville (pictured here) used supercardioid d:vote 4099D Drum Mics and cardioid d:dicate 2011C Recording Microphones for the drum kit.
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This full DPA array for the drums was carefully crafted by Cottrill. “Rather than using a hodge-podge of different popular drum microphones, my preferred approach is to mic the kit with products from a single manufacturer,” he explains. “This gives me consistent off-axis frequency response, which is critical on a drum kit where there is no isolation between drums. By using one brand throughout, I’m able to ensure that each microphone adds to the sound of the other drums and cymbals for one complete overall composite picture of the kit, rather than individual thumbnails of sound.”
While the d:votes were attached directly to the individual drums and cymbals, the d:dicate 2011Cs were used as overheads. “I chose the DPA 2011Cs because they are natural-sounding and offer full frequency response,” continues Cottrill. “The 2011s come as true, matched/stereo pairs, which gives me 100 percent true stereo frequency response from left and right kits. I prefer this overall drum kit sound, rather than one that primarily picks up the high frequency content of the cymbals.”
