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I heard somewhere that this microphone works well on bass drum, is this true, if not what is a good bass drum mic no more then $900.00

'good' is relative.

an EV RE-20 i use on kick drum quite often (mostly in rock) its about $400. that's a great place to start.

Jeremy

shure beta52 is a great kick mic, in my opinion.

I second the RE20. BSW has them for 399$. I don't think of it as a kick drum mic. It's a really excellent dynamic. I've had very good results recording vocals, electric bass (with a fet47), electric guitar (with a condenser, probably a u67), floor tom. I even used it for acoustic once.

My problem with this mic is I only have one of them!

This should be the standard dynamic mic (not a fucking smfucking57).

Well, it is huge. In some situations it's just to big to use...

Hope this helps.

Javier Ortiz

SM-7s are great on lots of things, especially voices and guitar amps, but I've never used one on a kick, so I can't offer an opinion on that. However, if youve got up to $900 to spend, youve got a lot of good options --

Sennheiser 421 (just a great mic all around, fabulous on kick drum)
AKG D112 (sorta standard -- big snap, bouncing basketball-sound kick)
AKG D12 (they dont make em anymore, but theyre great for that softer, old-school kick sound; lotsa thump)
Shure Beta 52 (lotsa snap, and also lotsa super low end)
Audix D6 (similar to the B52, pretty cheap, big low end)
Beyer M88 (more of the same, with slightly less pronounced upper mid snap than B52 or D112)

And I'm sure you could get a list at least that long from half the people on here, with different mics than the ones I named. Personally, cost-benefit wise, I like the Beta 52; it's also really good on bass amps. Of course, many will disagree with that, the same way that, while I love RE-20s for some voices and guitar and bass amps, Ive always found them to be kinda flat-sounding on kick drum. Could be the lack of proximity effect. Opinions, etc.

i've been using an akg d3600 on kick of late in preference to my d112. (endofanera, i am so glad someone else has noticed the d112 basketball thing.) i really like the d3600 because it doesn't seem to have that low-mid peak like the d112, and yet has plenty of low-end. they tend to be quite hard to find, possibly because of their versatility (see: http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6456 .)

cheers

Does anyone have any experience using an ATM25 on the bass drum ? I've been told they're very good but have yet to try it myself...

I've been also told that the ATM25 was very good for kick. But I've never tried.

bazarov wrote:Does anyone have any experience using an ATM25 on the bass drum ? I've been told they're very good but have yet to try it myself...

I like it. Lots of low end, but a bit lacking in click. Of course that may be my drums.

When my RE20 is busy doing something else, I use the ATM25 on my kick drum and am very happy with the results. That said, I am not much for the 'click' sound on kick drums anyway.