Oktava MK-012 is a great tom mic and not a bad snare mic. I almost tried it on kick the other day but just kinda forgot about it and it ended up on the floor tom.

Christophe H wrote:Sorry guys but I don t get what is a basketball sound. Maybe because I m more into bowling. Anyway, I will have a look at these mics. And Yes, Steve uses a beyer M380 way inside the bassdrum... many videos show him. I realize this is a problem I have to solve by myself. Thank youi think i got that from this video. i'm not sure.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvLuP4Kya8U&t=329si might also have been projecting, because imhmfo the inside of the kick is the worst place to get a sound remotely resembling the drum you would hear (unless you're stiv bators).

garthplinko wrote:A Shure Beta 91a is a boundary-style condenser. I have one mounted on a floating system inside my Vistalite kick so I don't have to hear sound-guys whinge about the non-ported resonant head. It will give you RIDICULOUS amounts of attack. It has a built-in notch around 400k which is great, but if you use it alone, you will likely want to boost lows a lot.A drummer I play with has one of these and we used it for a live recording about a month ago, the first time I ever had experience with one in a recording situation.This was on a Noble and Cooley 20" maple kick, no front head, tuned and played by someone who knows what he's doing. We had it laying down in the drum.I thought it sounded great, the closest I've ever heard a conventional in-the-drum kick mic come to sounding like what the drum actually sounded like.

Just throw a Shure SM57 in there over the blanket and the 20 lb. free weight.

A Beyer M380, but only inserted in to an eccentric hole.

Have you tried 421 and 441 on kick in? D6? SM7? I don't think it's an issue of dynamic vs. condenser vs. ribbon, it's that you haven't found a kick drum mic you love yet! Try as many as you can.I'll also say that each kick drum and each musical context is different, so a kick mic may be great in certain cases and not work in others (like anything). The 380 doesn't have that attack frequency exaggeration that the Beta 52, Beta 91, D112, D6, 421 all have. But that can actually be good when you need to tamp down the innate attack of a kick, or weight the kick sound towards low end and away from attack. But if you're doing some thrash metal and want it to sound genre appropriate, which you don't *have* to, you would probably want one of those more attack-y mics, and some judicious EQ and compression.

garthplinko wrote:I really want to try it combined w/ a sub-kick mic. Feels like that would be a fantastic combo. The manufactured ones are ridiculously over-priced though. I've been planning to DIY one for years but never got around to it.You can make one from a small speaker super easily. Like 10 mins. Lo-fi, but surprisingly not terrible!