Mics I want to get, tell me your opinion

Not familiar with those mics. $700 (as you know) isn't a lot to spend on 2 mics let alone a whole cabinet but I've been there. For what its worth, when I started building a decent project studio I had about 5 grand set aside for mics but I ended up spending it elsewhere. What I did buy was limited to good deals from companies that were trying to crack the market.



Looks like Marshall may be yesterday's Oktavas and there are rock steady standby's (everyone recommends them because they work and last) like the Shure 57's, Shure Beta's, and Sennheiser 421. If I were staying with $700 I'd probably check out the:



Marshall 2 mic package $99.00

1 lg diaphragm (vocal)

1 sm condensor (hi hat)

3 Senn. e604s (set can be had for) $250.00

1 AKG D112 (kick & bass) $199.00

1 Shure sm 57 (can't miss) $ 99.00



That's 7 mics for $650 and taking a flyer on the Marshalls, the others are pro quality and you'll always be able to use them.



The other way to go is to buy the best $700 mic value you can find and buy as you go. I started out with an AKG 414 in '89 for $900. Guess what? Its still worth that or considerably more and I now have 17 mics in the cabinet and I use every one of them.

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D6 kick $200

pair of the above metioned akg c430 $200, or a pair of new kel mic for like $200/pair can use these mics for drum ohs, acoustic gtr, vox, the kels for gtr, very versitile

a couple sm57s at $80-90 a pop, 180 can use for vox, snare, toms, gtr, horn, what ever really

I agree with impro about going DI with the bass so you should get a nice stereo DI so that you can record stereo keyboards and/or synths, or if you absolutly insist on miking the bass (like some bass players do) then you could over dub the cab with the d6 or use the sm57



then i would save up to buy the sennheiser 3 pack of e604s for your toms, very small good, and sound good, but those are another $330 for



and that should be close to the $700



these are all mics you can use for a while until you get more money to get more mics, I know from my own use that the akg c430s are very dependable, i've used them for about 5 years with no problems, and the d6 is built like a tank, the sm57s are tanks too, i don't know about the kel mics from what i hear they seem to be built well,



this is just what i would do if i started all over... just my 2 cents



bobby

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i've takin a look at those new mics, now tell me, am i going to like it better than my d6? or what.



later man

The D6 is hard to beat! I say go with the Audix D6. Or an ATM25

Ewww Samson drum mic packs, not what you want if you want good sounding tracks. Listen to the above advice instead.

I highly recommend the D6 as well. IMO its an amazing mic that makes my job eqing the kick really easy. For some bands I don't even have to do any eqing just tweak the levels and I'm done. I didn't have the same results with the shure beta.