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[Nathan Vanderslice]

I should have added.....
Sadly in my experience, there are not enough drummers who can tune a kick drum on the 'weekend Warrior' circuit.  With a decent sounding drum to start with, it is pretty quick and straightforward to get any mic dialed in but when dealing with an inferior tone along with being given very little time to tweak to help matters, sometimes short cuts can be very handy and I'd suppose I'd call the D6 a short cut.

Lack of ability, not knowing that they need to do it for good sound, or can't be bothered?

[Alex Cheng]

Lack of ability, not knowing that they need to do it for good sound, or can't be bothered?

d) All of the above.


...sometimes

[Kemper Watson]

Figured I'd get this one out of the way. I'll answer that it is situational, what sound I am looking for determines which mic I select. Therefor there are many, "BEST" kick drum mics.

I used an M88 last night for the first time. I now know what the best kick mic is.

[Tim Weaver]

I used an M88 last night for the first time. I now know what the best kick mic is.

They are fantastic until they blow out. Then they are nothing.

[Kemper Watson]

They are fantastic until they blow out. Then they are nothing.

How often does that happen?

[Tim McCulloch]

How often does that happen?

The M-88"TG" was made in response to kick drum use.  Same polar response, different diaphragm and suspension, IIRC.

How often will either submodel fail?  Depends on the drummer/genre/placement.  That a model was built to accommodate drum use kind of tells me Beyer didn't want to do warranty replacements at the then rate of failure.  What is that rate?  Dunno.

[Kemper Watson]

The M-88"TG" was made in response to kick drum use.  Same polar response, different diaphragm and suspension, IIRC.

How often will either submodel fail?  Depends on the drummer/genre/placement.  That a model was built to accommodate drum use kind of tells me Beyer didn't want to do warranty replacements at the then rate of failure.  What is that rate?  Dunno.

Mine is a TG. I'll use the windscreen. It's an amazing kick mic. Thank you Tim

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