Best snare mic to use for recoding

[cominginsecond]

Yup, what he said. I forgot where the site is but the statement is something like "a 201 is what a 57 would be if it were a mic"

That's at the electrical audio site I think.

 

[james123]

I always use the shure sm57 on the snare.

 

[mshilarious]

I've been using it on guitar cab. I liked it at first but I'm starting to change my mind. There's something kind of grainy with it. It seems to work better on fast attack/quick decay things like drums than a distorted guitar amp.

It could probably stand to shed some highs for cabs. It really has an exceptional high end response for a dynamic, I think that's part of what makes it so good on other things.

 

[Supercreep]

I've produced decent results with an MD421 as well.

 

[jkokura]

nothter M201 user here...

But I also use an AT pro37r on the bottom...

jacob

 

[NegadivOne]

As said above, i think the drum tuning is the most important part. Ive only used a 57 on snare and I cant complain. I get a nice crisp snappy sound and still a decent amount of tone.