oldmetalhead
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What is considered a good set of microphones to use for drums? Years ago I used Shure SM57's and Sennheiser 421's. Also does anyone know what Dave Lombardo uses? He has these neat looking clip ons.
What is considered a good set of microphones to use for drums? Years ago I used Shure SM57's and Sennheiser 421's. Also does anyone know what Dave Lombardo uses? He has these neat looking clip ons.
What is everyone's opinion of the Sennheiser e 602 II microphone for bass drums? It specs out really well especially for the price.
What you plug into makes all the difference.Is it relevant to mention the role the preamps have on the sound?
Are pre-amps a bottleneck all mics have to go through?
Or is that not really relevant?
So how important are the mics if the pre-amp is just OK, on a scale of 1 to 10, in a live situation?What you plug into makes all the difference.
So how important are the mics if the pre-amp is just OK, on a scale of 1 to 10, in a live situation?
Studio excepted.
I mean drums aren't exactly the same as a breathy vocal
Kinda depends on the mic application, live or studio, yes? no?
For the record, I’m using the Yamaha TF console. At least they’re quiet and workhorse-like ?Bo covers pre-amps pretty well, but I will add the following....
There are great pre's, there are good pre's, there are consumer grade pre's, and there are horrible pre's.
We need not discuss great pre's because they are outside the budget of most mortals.
We need not discuss good pre's because there's little to say about them.
Consumer grade Pre's that come on many modern digital mixers (including my R16) are not tonally spectacular, but they at least have the courtesy to be unoffensive and quiet. This makes them perfectly usable in the vast majority of scenarios. When I record on the R16, I can chain into a digital preamp emulator in Logic and get so close to the real thing that you wouldn't be able to tell which is which in an A/B comparison unless you knew exactly what to listen for.
Horrible pre's, like some of the Behringer and "Musicians Gear" white box products, are problematic and should be avoided. The artifacts they generate can drive engineers nuts. Next time you are at a GC, bring a decent set of headphones and do an A/B comparison of an Behringer X32 and a Presonus Studiolive AI.
I don't want to distract from the conversation at hand but does anyone have any insight into the quality of the preamps found in the TASCAM US-1641?