I've convinced the boss to buy a proper set of drum mic's to replace the mish mash of SM57's, 58's and Beyerdynamic odd jobber's which sound pretty crap except the 57's on the snare. But he said he wont spend more than £500 for the set. Now we already have the 57's which i use on the snare, and 2 Oktava 012's for OH and a Joe Meek JM47 which i sometimes use for Amibient, so all i need is mics for the toms, Hi Hat and i'd like a second kick mic. I've used the Sennheiser drum mic's but wasnt impressed with them except the E602 for kick and 664 condensers for OH and Hi Hats. However the clip on 604's sounded too dull and through experimentiation i tried the oktava's on the toms and they sounded much clearer but there was to much bleed thru for my liking, but i like the idea of condenser mic's for toms.
I checked out the Audix drum mics which seem good but are too expensive, the set we would need is twice our budget, but the boss seems impressed by the AKG set which includes a D112, 4 clip on condensers and 2 C1000's. How do these mics fair, are the clip on's good for tom's or do they let in alot of surrounding sound. Any other suggestions for a Drum mic set?
Cheers
I checked out the Audix drum mics which seem good but are too expensive, the set we would need is twice our budget, but the boss seems impressed by the AKG set which includes a D112, 4 clip on condensers and 2 C1000's. How do these mics fair, are the clip on's good for tom's or do they let in alot of surrounding sound. Any other suggestions for a Drum mic set?
Cheers