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twonky
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Gents,
I am in the market for a or maybe a couple of mics, I dont quite know yet. That why I would love some suggestions on a direction I should take.
Brands are not as important, I can do search on this BBS and get more than enough info on that subject. But if you have a particular mic that totally blows your mind, do let me know.
I record mostly rock in the traditional set up i.e. Drums, bass, guitar. But there is some rhodes, and acoustic guitar and sometimes some Latin percussion.
Currently I have:
5- SM 57s, I use them mostly for guitar cabs and rack toms and occasionally on 10" speakers of a bass cabinet.
1- Sennheiser 421, used mostly for floor tom and sometimes on the 10" speakers of my bass cabinet.
1- Beta 52, Kick drum, again occasionally on the 18" speaker of my bass cabinet.
1- CAD E200, used mostly for male vocals, sometimes drum overhead, sometimes about 2 feet in front of kick drum
1- ADK a51, love it on acoustic guitar and close micing the snare and sometines on vocals. However on snare there is a lot of bleed from the HH.
Matched pair of Earthworks TC30Ks- obviously, these are the nicest mics I have. I was using them a lot for drum over heads, but the toms tend to sound really boomy to me w/ them, then I started using them on the side of the snare (again more bleed issues) and out in front of the kick (on a well tuned kick, they are godhead!) I havent actually tried them for much else, because they are a bit....intimidating?
So as you can see the recurring themes are bass guitar cabinet and snare.
"Just record the bass direct" you say? Well, yes, but on some songs I get a rather bombastic overdriven bass tone that really requires being pumped thru the Eden 4x10" and the 18". I have really had trouble capturing the essence of this sound.
Also, I really dont like the way 57s sound on snare drums, too...timbale-y and pingy. So thats why I started to use the ADK, its really open and natural but the rest of the kit REALLY bleeds into it.
Overheads, I really haven found the best mics yet, I dont think.
So what would you gus look for next, I will have about 500 clams to spend.
thanks for any advice.
Twonky
I am in the market for a or maybe a couple of mics, I dont quite know yet. That why I would love some suggestions on a direction I should take.
Brands are not as important, I can do search on this BBS and get more than enough info on that subject. But if you have a particular mic that totally blows your mind, do let me know.
I record mostly rock in the traditional set up i.e. Drums, bass, guitar. But there is some rhodes, and acoustic guitar and sometimes some Latin percussion.
Currently I have:
5- SM 57s, I use them mostly for guitar cabs and rack toms and occasionally on 10" speakers of a bass cabinet.
1- Sennheiser 421, used mostly for floor tom and sometimes on the 10" speakers of my bass cabinet.
1- Beta 52, Kick drum, again occasionally on the 18" speaker of my bass cabinet.
1- CAD E200, used mostly for male vocals, sometimes drum overhead, sometimes about 2 feet in front of kick drum
1- ADK a51, love it on acoustic guitar and close micing the snare and sometines on vocals. However on snare there is a lot of bleed from the HH.
Matched pair of Earthworks TC30Ks- obviously, these are the nicest mics I have. I was using them a lot for drum over heads, but the toms tend to sound really boomy to me w/ them, then I started using them on the side of the snare (again more bleed issues) and out in front of the kick (on a well tuned kick, they are godhead!) I havent actually tried them for much else, because they are a bit....intimidating?
So as you can see the recurring themes are bass guitar cabinet and snare.
"Just record the bass direct" you say? Well, yes, but on some songs I get a rather bombastic overdriven bass tone that really requires being pumped thru the Eden 4x10" and the 18". I have really had trouble capturing the essence of this sound.
Also, I really dont like the way 57s sound on snare drums, too...timbale-y and pingy. So thats why I started to use the ADK, its really open and natural but the rest of the kit REALLY bleeds into it.
Overheads, I really haven found the best mics yet, I dont think.
So what would you gus look for next, I will have about 500 clams to spend.
thanks for any advice.
Twonky