Manual

Direct mic channels (mono)
Kick In
Kick Out
Snare Bottom
Snare Top
Snare Top
Multi
The signal from the mic inside the kick drum.
The signal from the mic outside the kick drum.
The signal from the mic underneath the snare drum.
The signal from the first mic above the snare drum.
The signal from the second mic above the snare drum.
BFD ’s library is the first to contain this mic channel, which
does not exist in previous BFD libraries.
The signal from the direct mic for all Kit-Pieces except
kicks and snares. This is usually empty for kicks and snares.
Primary direct and bleed channels
The kick and snare mics are used for all Kit-Pieces, as bleed signals are recorded through them.
A Kit-Piece’s own close mic’d direct signal is known as the primary direct mic channel. For a kick, this is in the Kick In and Out mic
channels, and for a hihat or cymbal, it is in the Multi mic channel.
The Kick In/Out mic channels are the primary direct mic channels for the kick. Bleed from the kick appears in the Snare Bottom/Top
mic channels. The Multi mic channel is empty for kicks, except on certain BFD XFL kicks, which feature bleed captured
through the hihat mic.
The Snare Bottom/Top mic channels are the primary direct mic channels for the snare. Bleed from the snare appears in the Kick
In/Out mic channels. The Multi mic channel is empty for snares, except on certain BFD XFL snares, which feature bleed captured
through the hihat mic.
The Multi mic channel is the primary direct mic channel for all other Kit-Pieces, whose bleed appears in the Kick In/Out and Snare
Bottom/Top mic channels.
Bleed is only present in the kick and snare mic channels. Bleed from the other mics is not included, because the levels were too
low and not useful enough to justify the extra RAM and hard disk bandwidth required. In any case, bleed can be, in many cases,
an annoying side-effect of the drum-recording process, which is often minimized during post-processing by using noise gates.