Rock Star 87 said:
seriously, i'm straight now, and i still think it's a good idea. what's wrong with it.
1.) Impact noise from the stick hitting the drum.
2.) Lack of solid, realistic stereo imaging--unless you consider drums swishing and panning around in the mix to be a "good" sound. Or, god help you, you took the tracks and panned each hit around to sound unmoving.
3.) The sound of whooshing.
4.) The lack of decay on the drum hits as the stick moves on to something else. I imagine the sound would closely resemble "ticka-tocka-clicka-clacka" more than drums.
5.) Are you going to put a beater on the kick beater too?
6.) Unless they're wireless the drummer is going to have to get used to having XLR cables coming off their sticks.... I can tell you that most drummers, who are generally confused by click tracks, are not going to be diggin' this one bit. Oh, and I'd imagine they'd be heavy--thus altering the tone of the sticks on the drums. What if the drummer wanted a lighter stick sound?
7.) Having any kind of room ambiance, other than whooshing, is going to be difficult to achieve.
8.) The cost to manufacture would be prohibitive. Couple this with the fact they'd probably get broken anyways (unless you used tons of frequency sucking "insulation" on them--which defeats the purpose of having a good sounding mic).
9.) Massive proximity effect from HITTING the drums, then coupled with the sound of the drum moving about 1-2' away in 200-500 milliseconds.
10.) High hat bleed is already enough of a problem. Do you really need to increase it?
Literally you could discount everything but #2 and you'd still have an unusable mic design. Maybe for laughs you could use it one time for a special effect in a noisy track, but the day-to-day applications of this mic are nil.
Lay off the drugs man. They call it
dope for a reason.
