need some fairly cheap mics for demoing drums-any ideas??

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Pete,
What do you want to record drums for (ie. what style?)
What size kit
How many seperate sound sources can you record at the same time?
Do you have preamps? Mixer? Phantom power?

You can mic a kit with one mic to 20 mics (20 would be overdoing things though).
General principles are:
1 mic - needs to pick up whole kit sound, so best a condensor or a ribbon, is unlikely to give you a usable rock sound, might work for jazz. Cheap choices would be any cheap LD condensor eg. Studio Projects B1 or MXL v67
2 mics - Kick and mono overhead - use overhead mic as above and for kick maybe at pro25, Peavey 520i
3 mics - Now you're getting stereo! - Stereo overheads (B1, Oktava MC012, MXL 603, etc) and kick mic as above
4 mics - Now you're getting an sm57 for snare as well as the 3 mic setup.

From here you can add close mics to each tom (dynamics generally, though condensors work too, they just don't like being hit by the drummer at all, and may break if this happens), room mics (whatever takes your fancy), hi-hat mic (usually SD condensor).

Good luck,
Steve
 
Re: Re: need some fairly cheap mics for demoing drums-any ideas??

DJL said:
Two Oktava MC-012... Overheads
One Audio-technical ATM25... Kick
One Shure SM57... Snare.
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OR two Behringer ECM8000s for overheads. 80 bucks.
 
OR...

two MXL 603's as a factory matched set, with shockmounts for $200.

One SM57 on snare ($80 new)

ATM25 on kick. (same)

Chris
 
Your talking cheap demo so for $100 GC has the 319's @ 2 for $99. One in front of the set and one over might do ya. I've even got fair results with 1 mic. Many of you will laugh but I once put up the chepo MCA SP1 $39 Sam Ash speical. We were just fooling with some ideas. Well, we wound up keep the track. Ya never know.
 
kick - AT ATMPRO25 ($59 at Mus.Fr.)
snare - shure SM57 ($79-$89 almost everywhere)
overhead- either the MXL603's, Oktava MK012, Oktava MK319...1 for mono, 2 for stereo.....

for just demos you can just get away with the one overhead mic.......or you can go with one overhead and one kick.......next up would be one each on kick,snare, and overhead.......
 
Electro Voice 664 - weird but works!

Although you don't hear about them too much, I have found that the Electro Voice 664 makes a surprisingly good
kick mic at around 30$. It's a chrome/mettalic heavy ray gun looking mic that can regularly found on ebay... i find it most usefull for rock/pop tunes if it is to be used without any eq...it gives a nice round bottom end and also captures the click nicely (it also takes well to eq if needed). Overall, it gives a smooth, relatively detailed kick sound for very little microphone money!

T
 
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