My ECM8000s are on their way!

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Cool Harvey! I know you're going to have to come south to buy 'em, unless you go to the GC in OKC, or something. Lemme know what you find. I was at the location off 75 Central at oh, Southwestern, I guess. Plano or the Galleria may be closer for you. Or Arlington for Tarrant County's lower sales tax.

And thanks for sharing their low price policy, "previous poster". Had I asked the weasel, we might have found it rung up as $29 also. GC just whips me so bad I didn't bother. Anyhoo, no slight intended.
 
I got a pair last week in two days from 8th street for $35 each. All the GC's in Mass. were out of them. They sound great as drum overheads, but they're picking up the whole kit, not just cymbals. Suggestions?:cool:
 
It was me...

I'm the guy who posted that GC has (had?) them for $29.99. I bought the last two that my area GC had, one was a display, that had the $79.99 price still on it. They both rang up @ $29.99. Of course I had to listen to the "pro audio" sales weasel go on and on about his favorite LD mics and his favorite mic'ing techniques (all bogus), and what he thought of my latest work for 15 minutes. So, I'm not sure if I got a good deal after all. :)

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Yeah, use it! Omni pattern's gonna pick up the kit. You could roll-off frequencies below what you want, but why? Me, I'll roll-off below 30 or 40Hz, and use the signal for the meat of my drum sound. The kick and snare mics are supplemental, and sometimes I'll ditch the snare. As always, YMMV, and experiment with placement to get the most of what you want, least of what you don't.

PS-I like to bring the ECM8000 in over the drummer's shoulder, as in Harvey's method for micing acoustic guitar, going for the drummer's perspective on how the kit should sound.
 
Nah, Tom. You had to listen to all that, you got scrood!

Thanks for the news, though. I bet it rings up that way. I'm gonna go see right now!
 
ChuckU said:
I got a pair last week in two days from 8th street for $35 each. All the GC's in Mass. were out of them. They sound great as drum overheads, but they're picking up the whole kit, not just cymbals. Suggestions?:cool:
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Uh, is that a joke? 'Cause that's what I like about the things. Maybe that's part of the divide on the AKG C-1000's, which will give you excessive cymbals and nothing else as overheads, and I almost never do tom mics, so to hell with those.

I think I'll soon be whitling down to 3 mics on the kit, but two could be possible, and the Behringer is going to be a part of either setup.

Bear
 
Yeah, but like Harvey said, a bunch of us homereccers never had an omni pattern before his post on these. And not all of us, myself included, read these threads as carefully and thoroughly as we should before we speak or reach for our credit cards.

Agreed though, that picking up the whole kit is exactly why I hang it up there. Sometimes renders the snare mic superfluous, I find.

BTW, just answered my own question. Just came back from the GC down the street where I got their last one, from the display case for, yup, $29 + tax. No box, no foam, not a piece of tissue to wrap it in, but what the hey. So now my first one's got a little brother. We just have to find a cradle for it.
 
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