Drum mics?

Those look pretty good. I know a lot of drummers use Shure SM57's for the snare and toms along with a BETA 52 for the bass drum, but the set you're looking at should be fine. AKG and Sennheiser are other popular brands.
 
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There is also a Shure mic kit in my catalog but its basically 4 sm57s and a D112 for the kick and I'm not very fond of the D112....I don't know anything about Beta52, though...I love my other Beta mics...
 
The Beta52 is a good kick mic, and is among the most used ones live these days.

Apart from overhead mics I'm a Sennheiser guy though, love those mics. :)
e602 or MD421 for kick, MD441 for snare, e604 for high toms, MD421 low toms.
I use the Josephson C42's for overheads (that also rule for acoustic guitar recording) :love:
 
Dexter Inferno said:
The Beta52 is a good kick mic, and is among the most used ones live these days.

Apart from overhead mics I'm a Sennheiser guy though, love those mics. :)
e602 or MD421 for kick, MD441 for snare, e604 for high toms, MD421 low toms.
I use the Josephson C42's for overheads (that also rule for acoustic guitar recording) :love:
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I have a pair of e609's....they are for guitar amps but do you think they would work for drums at all?
 
markwein said:
I have a pair of e609's....they are for guitar amps but do you think they would work for drums at all?
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IIRC I've seen them used on rack toms. They should in theory work great for that application :)

Another mic that also works very well on toms (quite surprisingly imo) is the Oktava MC012 sdc.

Also, if there's room available, a lot of LDCs work very well on both snare, kick and toms - as long as they have enough headroom to deal with the peaks. I've occasionally used the Studio Projects mics on both snare and toms.

So by all means try out whatever mics you already have on various sources other than what they're intended for, you might be surprised :wink:
 
As I get the gear together it will be quite a learning experience...I've always been "on the other side of the glass", so to speak. And cranking out recordings with my Mbox, Protools and EZdrummer really isnt the same thing...
 
markwein said:
As I get the gear together it will be quite a learning experience...I've always been "on the other side of the glass", so to speak. And cranking out recordings with my Mbox, Protools and EZdrummer really isnt the same thing...
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Yeah, it will be both extremely frustrating and fun at the same time.
Really rewarding though when one starts getting it right :)

I never had the patience for doing midi drums and such, not to mention I could never get the canned drums to sound right for what I wanted it to do.
IMO much better having a not quite as good mix with "real" instruments :thu:
 
Dexter Inferno said:
Yeah, it will be both extremely frustrating and fun at the same time.
Really rewarding though when one starts getting it right :)

I never had the patience for doing midi drums and such, not to mention I could never get the canned drums to sound right for what I wanted it to do.
IMO much better having a not quite as good mix with "real" instruments :thu:
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very true on all counts.

I play drums almost every day during classes but it will be an experience doing stuff to a click. I can play guitar to a click very well but I am pretty inexperienced as a drummer...
 
I use an SM57 on the snare, fake SM57s on the toms, and Audix D6 on the kick, and a pair of Audio Technica AT2020s as overheads.
 
Prages said:
I use an SM57 on the snare, fake SM57s on the toms, and Audix D6 on the kick, and a pair of Audio Technica AT2020s as overheads.
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Hm. I can get all of those for cost and they would probably be useful in other ways, too...
 
I like them well enough. Ideally, I'd use a pair of SDCs for overheads, but my SDCs shit the bed (I had a pair of MXL993s that sounded great for a couple of months and then started humming really badly).

The AT2020s are so-so overheads. A little honkey sounding, and not quite enough sizzle, IMO, but they are pretty versatile. In addition to using them as overheads, I've used them for vocals, acoustic guitars, bass cabs, and room mics.
 
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