I was a bit worried, but these cheap overhead mics pulled through!

[Lowberg]

Basically, I sold all of my "good" Audix drum mics a while ago and got a roland E-kit.

So of course as soon as I sold my mics, my best friends were like plz plz plz record our band! So I had to throw something quick together.

My friend agreed to use the toms and kick from the E kit but wanted a real mic'd snare and cymbals. I had an SM57 and a couple dynamics, but I needed some overhead condensers and didnt want to spend alot of money.

I was surprised how decent they sounded for being cheap as dirt and for recording in a totally untreated and square bed room.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48100488/Other Stuff/Magick Drums.mp3

Can you guess what mics the overheads are?

 

[Charles J]

not bad! OH's sound pretty decent! i can definitely hear the sound of the room fucking with your overall KIT sound a LOTTTT.

comb filtering and phasing, mostly on the SNR but a bit on the OH's... it will work though, i'm sure!

GJ bro!

 

[Emdprodukt]

not bad! OH's sound pretty decent! i can definitely hear the sound of the room fucking with your overall KIT sound a LOTTTT.

comb filtering and phasing, mostly on the SNR but a bit on the OH's... it will work though, i'm sure!

GJ bro!

Can you describe what you exactly hear when comb filtering and phasing is happening?

 

[AllanD]

I'm not going to lie, the lack of comb filtering is pretty shocking to me, I don't hear it very much at all. Can you post just the overheads? I need to further listen. I'm guessing Sampson C02's.

 

[Audiosprite]

I'm guessing Sampson C02's.

My guess too. they're surprisingly decent for the price.

 

[FarBeyondMetal]

Not bad at all for cheap mics. My preference for cheap overheads are the Behringer B5's, but admittedly I've only compared them to the MXL603s which I feel are a bit more hyped on the high end than the B5's.

I'm curious to know which mics you used though.

 

[Lowberg]

Yup! You guys got it! Samson C02's, buy one get one free for $60 on musiciansfriend. Lol i wasnt exp.ecting much for 60 dollars, but they are usable so I cant complain!

Just to clarify, the kick and toms were done on the roland pads with metal machine so the only thing the overheads were capturing was cymbals and a snare drum

 

[AllanD]

Yup! You guys got it! Samson C02's, buy one get one free for $60 on musiciansfriend. Lol i wasnt exp.ecting much for 60 dollars, but they are usable so I cant complain!

Just to clarify, the kick and toms were done on the roland pads with metal machine so the only thing the overheads were capturing was cymbals and a snare drum

That must be a good drummer, to be honest I thought the hihats were fake as well.

 

[Lowberg]

Oh fuck! Im totally wrong! my mistake, they were NOT samson c02s. They were CAD CM217's. I apologize, I was super tired this morning when I replied haha.

 

[drew_drummer]

Sounds usable to me!