Am I the only person on here that likes the Sennheiser e 602‑II on kick?
Yes.
But seriously folks...
I used to own the "original" e602, and liked it just fine. Then it broke, and at the time Sennheiser service was a big black hole that things went into and never returned.
For the record, The B52 is my least favorite kick drum mic.
Since I do a lot of festival type stuff, I have been using the Kick-Snare-Pair of Overheads technique quite a bit. Get a stereo compressor on the overheads, and squash them hard. Like -6dB with every snare hit. That's what brings it together.
To that guy who moved from Sennheiser MKH50 to DPAs, good for you. For the rest of us regular folk, the Shure SM81 is the "57" of drum overheads.
One mic that I have not seen mentioned that excels on snare and toms is the Beyerdynamic M201. Great mic. In the $300.00 price range, and worth every penny.
Shure, EV, Audix, Sennheiser. I like 'em all. 'Cept those shure B56s are so damn heavy, they really need to be on a stand. No clips for those babys!
Happy Drum Micing!
