I need a great snare mic with even greater isolation, and cheap enough to get beat on

[tubedude]

DOnt even say SM57, that thing gets more bleed than a tampon.
I need a good snare mic with good isolation that I can afford to have in harms way. My 441 is getting hit too much and fuck that. THats my baby.
Any suggestions?

 

[Track Rat]

AKG C-1000 with the little thing that fits on the capsule that turns it to hyper-cardiod.

 

[Strange Leaf]

Get a drummer with more accuracy. Or make him use 2x SM57 as sticks, that way you only need a kick mic and you got the whole kit covered.

 

[mrface2112]

try a sennheiser e835 or its e845 big brother. the 835 is a cardiod and the 845 is a hyper, so it might be a little towards what you're looking for. although, timbrally speaking, the 835 sounds similar to a 57, although i like it better on snare than a 57.

although, given their similarities to the sm57/8, i doubt either one will please your ears as the 441 does (and likely nothing will).


wade

 

[DJL]

My favorite snare mic is the Beyer M201.

 

[chessrock]

Ditto to what DJL said, and add the following:


*beyer 420
*electrovoice re16
*Audix D1 or D2


If you're just looking for something inexpensive that won't bleed as much, definitely check out the Audix.

 

[David Artis]

I would agree with the Audix. Bought them because they were cheap and they can really take a beating.

 

[Rimshot]

Think internal mic..........or

try to not wallup the poor defenseless microphones.


RS 33-3032 if you can find anymore, they work fine and are only $15 each.

Senheisser e604 lists at $150 but can be had at GC with haggling for $40.

Both of the above are small and work well and are a slightly smaller target for a less than "deadeyed" drummer.

Mic under the snare?

Scrap the whole snare mic idea and work in a good room with two great overheads and a good kick mic.

An hour or more a day on practice with an eye for stick control and targeting the drums.

 

[Rocket Boy]

if your recording shitty drummers who cant hit it in the middle... does it really matter if you use a good mic?

 

[Rimshot]

if your recording shitty drummers who cant hit it in the middle... does it really matter if you use a good mic?

Well,let's be fair here afterall. We drummers are having a bit of fun with your dilemna. Depending on the kind of music the drummer is playing you can be all over the snare drum for different effects including cross stick, rimshots, rim clicks, stick with brush, etc.. It takes a certain amount of practice to get used to playing with microphones that are now in the way of what used to be a clear path. Different studios prefer to use different mics, some of which may be larger than what the drummer is accustomed to and it presents new obstacles.
Why do you want such isolation? As has been stated many times here in the past, a certain amount of bleed is a good thing. If this is what you realy want then maybe internal mic'ing is what you should be looking
at.

 

[charger]

57, pointed away from the high hat. I hardly get any bleed on that mic, of all mics, the snare is so friggin loud. I can't think of any other mics that I would be willing to subject to the beatings of a wild drummer.