Your go-to microphones for every instrument

[LBTM]

Which are your go-to microphones (the ones that come first in mind) for every instrument?

I'll post my list later.

 

[thefalloftheheretic]

Which are your go-to microphones (the ones that come first in mind) for every instrument?

I'll post my list later.

Snare: SM57/ES57
Kick: call me crazy but I love the SM7B on the kick
Toms: call me crazy again but I like SM57s on toms

Vocals: SM7B again
Guitar: SM57 or a pencil condenser or both
Bass: what are you, crazy? I never mic bass amps.

 

[LBTM]

Snare: SM57/ES57

The cheapo GLS? Could you make a comparison?

 

[Revson]

Kick: D6
Snare top: i5
Overheads: Shure KSM32
Guitars: 57/421 combo

Everything else I'm still experimenting with to figure out what I really like.

 

[Studdy]

If i was on a desert island.

AT4040 pair
SM57's
SM7b

I could make that work.

 

[thefalloftheheretic]

The cheapo GLS? Could you make a comparison?

I'll get around to it eventually, but it sounds extremely close to the SM.

 

[Heabow]

Snare: SM57/ES57
Kick: call me crazy but I love the SM7B on the kick
Toms: call me crazy again but I like SM57s on toms

Vocals: SM7B again
Guitar: SM57 or a pencil condenser or both
Bass: what are you, crazy? I never mic bass amps.

Nothing crazy here really.

SM57 on pretty much everything, SM7 on vocals, MD421 on toms and guitars and trigger on kick!

 

[~BURNY~]

Kick D6 in/D112 out
Rack toms D2's
Floor toms D4
Snare top I5
Snare Bottom SM57
Ride Rode NT3
Hat (been trying several stuff including SM7b but I'm not happy yet)
Overheads Oktavamod MK012's but I'm going to experiment with my Oktavamod NT1's in the future
Room close Apex 210+T-bone Rb500 (ms setup)
Room far Apex 205+T-bone RM700 (ms setup)
Mono Room T-bone RB100

Guitars SM57/MD421/Apex 205
Bass D112

Clean vocals: No rules
Screams/Growls: SM7b

 

[Mashreef]

Rode NT2-A/sm 58/audio technica At2030/audix d6 - vocals
audix d6/sm7b - kick
Sm 57 - snare,toms
behringer c1 - room
sm57 - Guitar,acoustic instruments

 

[egan.]

d6 - vocals

 

[LBTM]

Mono Room T-bone RB100

How's that sound on cabs and vocals? I'll probably grab one.

Don't judge mics on how they look and what they're advertised for.

 

[lanky noob]

audix d6 - vocals

Care to put up an example?

I would've thought the massive scoop on it would make vocals sound a bit..... blah

 

[egan.]

Don't judge mics on how they look and what they're advertised for.

I'm not. I'm judging from knowledge of the microphone. It has virtually no content from 500-1k.

edit: If it works then it works, but I'm just surprised knowing the D6 that it would be a vocal "go-to." As always sounds good=good. YMMV. ETC.

 

[~BURNY~]

How's that sound on cabs and vocals? I'll probably grab one.

Pretty dark and boomy.

 

[Mashreef]

i like d6 for some dark sounding vocals
i know its for the kick drum..
but it gives me a good bass on the vocals

 

[lanky noob]

Do you use it alongside something else for the midrange?
Or just on certain sections where dark vocals are called for?

Not meaning to sound all "what the fuck are you thinking?" i'm just genuinely curious

 

[botus99]

Between multiplications of these 5 mics, I can get what I want out of most things.

Beta 52 - kick, floor tom, bass amp
SM57 - snare, toms, guitar, bass amp
i5 - snare, toms, guitar, bass amp
MD421 - snare, toms, guitar, bass amp
KSM137 - overheads, guitar, percussion
KSM32 - room and vocals

 

[LBTM]

For me it's:
Shure Beta 98 Amp/C - Snare, Toms (That thing sounds amazing!)
Shure Beta 52A - Kick
SE Electronics SE 4 - OHs
Avantone CV-12 - Vocals
Shure SM57 - Guitar
AKG D 112 - Bass
Whatever I find first - Room (Front L-R, Ceiling L-R, Floor, Sidechained to kick, snare and toms to minimize phase issues when I'm not using samples)

That's only if I had to choose one mic for every drum.

 

[RedDog]

My sentiment exactly.

Every time I use a d6 for anything, it's because I don't want anything to do with 700 hz. Personally I'd roll off everything the D6 brings to the low end if I used it on vocals. That said, I saw a video of tesseract performing at Sphere and Mos was definitely yelling into a D112.

Personally: low frequency elements, kick, bass cab is a D6 combo with a LDC, AKG perception 220 here.
Guit-fiddles get NT5, Harvey's been telling me to get a figure 8 and try MS, so that's a possibility. Cabs are 57/i5 combo
Toms are 57s, sampled with the D6, e609 and LDC before tracking.
Vocals.... Starting to hate dynamics again.
Overheads are NT5 and all that.

I am seriously considering my next mic locker purchase after this thread.

 

[Mashreef]

Do you use it alongside something else for the midrange?

nope