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Also remember that preamps really do make a difference, so don't go for the absolute bottom feeders there either. By the way, I don't think you need to worry about noise for drum recording. But sure, for some other things the ECM8000 may very well be annoyingly noisy.

I have used the ECM8000 for drum overheads in a smallish all concrete basement rehersal room, and I have to say that you really don't need perfect acoustics to get good results with them. I placed quite a lot of damping on the walls and ceiling around the kit to get rid of the reflections, and...

The 4033 has sort of a wave guide attached to the diaphragm (to get a better S/N ratio I guess), and I just searched around a bit and it seems the KSM32 has an "embossed" diaphragm. Which would mean that they have stamped a 3D pattern into it, and they claim the added surface area makes it...

Hm, interesting. I have never listened to the Shure LDs, but when I took a peak at shure.com to my suprise I found that the KSM32 is an electret, while the half as expensive KSM27 is externally polarized. That the multipattern KSM44 is externally polarized hardly comes as a surprise, since...

Well, the high-pass filter will muck up the phase so previously destructive interference can now have become creative. So it is quite probable that some peaks will be higher even tough you have boosted no individual frequency. This is the way this shit works, a cut in the frequency domain can...

Well, speaking of interface speed, 26 channels of 24/48 audio is only 3.7 MBytes/s (or 30 Mbits/s) so firewire or USB is going to be quite fast enough even if you play back a hundred tracks while you are recording. And almost any modern non-laptop HD is going to manage fine, the problems are...

I like rack gear, 'cause I like knobs. My wallet likes plugs.

The RME costs about $800-900 in the US, but then again it's a 26 channel interface. I'm running mine with a Dell Inspiron 4100 and an external firewire HD. Works fine! Using the internal HD I get dropouts with only a few tracks; to be on the safe side I always bring the external HD if I'm gonna...

Well, diaphragm thickness isn't the end of the world (I seem to remember a few german mics with 12my diaphragms that sound half decent:)), but you should perhaps note that unlike the Rode NT5 it is not an externally polarized, but an electret capsule. (I don't know about the C4, but all the new...

Weeell, the ellipse isn't entirely concentric, is it? Anyway I used a pair of Tannoy Gold (the 12") in the eighties. (Well, listened to anyway. I was sort of an assistant in a far from world-class studio back then.) I liked them very much back then anyway, but I had little to compare to and...

Well, as I understand it the mics are designed and assembled in Sweden but the capsules are Japanese. I don't remember exactly which capsule it is though. I have the CM2, (but I have not used it extensively so everything I say should be taken with a andfull of salt) it is a nice natural sounding...

Dynaudio bm15a. Works fine for me.

A friend of mine has it (the Line Audio), and I have been planning to compare it to what I have for some time but haven't got to it yet. Anyway I'll be needing a some extra preamps for a gig about a month from now, so perhaps I'll borrow it and put it through its paces at last. What I have now...

I use it (really close) on double bass sometimes, and occationally on percussion.

Of course it depends on how much you are prepared to spend, but in the reasonable price range I would say that Beyer M88 is a really nice dynamic super-cardioid that would work fine for double bass. (A super-cardioid is what you want when you need the best possible front to back ratio, and a...

Drum overheads is of course the classic application. But I'd say $75 for a pair is a little bit too cheap to feel comfortable about...

Don't buy a lot of cheap crap! Instead spend as much money as you possibly can on a pair of GREAT small diaphragm capacitor mikes. Choir is really hard on the mics, causing lots of strange intermodulation effects in the diaphragm that causes most cheap mics to distort. It's not just that it...

It's probably the transformer in the 84 you like. Lot's of people seem to like transformers... :)

Try the search function. Or I could tell you: :) During tracking it doesn't matter much, but as soon as you start using effects it matters a lot. Imagine an effect that from each sample subtracts the previous sample. (out=in(n) - in(n-1) Which would in essence be a high pass filter.) Can you...

:):):) When drums stop, bass solo begins! :D