Hmmm, what about those mics do you not like? Do you want a condensor sound? A Ribbon? I believe AT make a kick mick with a dynamic and condensor element in one body. Not shure the number or how it sounds. ATM 25? D12? U47? R-121? SM7? MD421? Those are some more usual suspects with a curveball or two added in. Tried an SM57or a pressure zone mic (PZM) ?

Try out a Sennheiser e602. I did a shootout between it and D112, Beta 52, RE20, Audix D4 (before D6 was available) and AT25. It slaughtered all of 'em. It's fat but not tubby, with a slight boost at 3k for a hair of click. They're around $200.

While doing live sound this past weekend, a drummer had an e602 attached inside his kick. Sounded great. I needed barely any eq just took a smidge of low-mids out. Of course, the kick drum itself sounded good to begin and im sure that made the biggest difference.

The place i do live sound for uses a beta 52 whuch afine kick drum mic as well.

And I own a D6.

Ive had good results with all of them so i guess im no help.

But if you want a great bang for your buck get the Audix DP5 kit for $650. 5 mics: D1, (2) D2, D4 and a D6 and it comes with 4 rackmount vices and a nice case and the nice case is what really counts, right? hehe.

Sounds good. Ill give the Sennheiser a try. I'm not really sure why I'm not satisfied with the D6 I was using but I just sold it with the rest of the Audix mic set -D2s D4 and D1. I have found that the best snare and tom mic (that I have used) are the Beta57s. They are really clean and dont have that square edge sound that makes toms and snares a little iratating. Theres a cat selling them for $95. on Ebay, thats a steal. Thanks for your imput any one else want to pipe in,by all means go ahead.

The combo At mic is (i think?) an AT2500. I've heard one.Not really used it. It was a kick mic in a kick drum.If the drum itself is stellar then all the usual suspects will apply.

The Sennheiser e604 is the tom mic companion to the 602, I'm very pleased with them also. If the kit only has two toms, I use the 3rd 604 clipped to the bottom rim of the floor tom for a clapper mic. There's a set available with all of them.

I can pretty much stick a D-6 inside any kick drum I run into and be quite happy with it. Very little EQ most of the time. The main thing for me is to make sure it is a great sounding drum to begin with.

I'm going to start sounding like a broken record ....

RE20 with Recorderman's sub mic. Actually, pretty much any of the fine mics listed in this thread paired with Recorderman's sub mic will give you all the attack you need and more bottom end (without having to actively filter, pad or compress) than you'll ever want. I built my sub mic for about $30 and it works like a charm. In fact, my drum teacher who produces professionally, had me build one for him.

I have used all of the mics listed so far in this thread with the exception of the Sennheiser. I would add the AKG D12e to the list especially if you're going to record a bass drum with the resonant head still on for jazz or that 60's kick sound. If I had to choose just one, however, it would probably be the EV RE20 because it can be used for lots of other things.