I am looking ot purchase a middle of the road Drum Mic Kit but not sure what route to go.  What mic kits are you using and how do you like the results?

Don't buy a kit. Buy individual mics that can cover many bases. Plus some of the best drum recordings out there were made with fewer mics than come in kits. A few questions: Do you have any mics? What is your space like you'll be recording drums in? What is your budget?

A few recommendations out the gate before you even answer any quetsions: Shure sm57/Audix i5 for toms/snare Decent pair of overheads - depends on what you'd want. SDC/LDC or even dynamics. You can even do mono over head. But at minimum a decent pair of overheads, a snare and a kick mic should get you pretty far. The RE20 or Shure SM7B are great dynamics for kick.

I have a  RODE NT1A-P Condenser Microphone and Behringer Ultravoice XM8500.  I was looking around the $300 range for a budget hoping that would get me close to mid grade quality.  I have read in other forums the same answer you gave which was build your own set of mics to use for the drums.  I am using the drums in a bedroom that I use for my studio.  

IK Obi


Don't buy a kit. Buy individual mics that can cover many bases. Plus some of the best drum recordings out there were made with fewer mics than come in kits. A few questions: Do you have any mics? What is your space like you'll be recording drums in? What is your budget?

Sorry for dumb question but what does SDC/LDC stand for?

IK Obi


A few recommendations out the gate before you even answer any quetsions: Shure sm57/Audix i5 for toms/snare Decent pair of overheads - depends on what you'd want. SDC/LDC or even dynamics. You can even do mono over head. But at minimum a decent pair of overheads, a snare and a kick mic should get you pretty far. The RE20 or Shure SM7B are great dynamics for kick.

SDC – small diaphragm condenser (e.g., sm81)
LDC – large diaphragm condenser (e.g., AKG 414)


What is your budget?

Personally, I'd rather have fewer good mics than a slew of so-so mics.  You can mic a drum kit w/ three mics (or less), often w/ much less headache than multimic'ing.

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I was thinking around $300 but I realize I may have a another issue with micing drums my Motu only has to condensor mic inputs and from what you have guys have been teaching I may need 3 one for kick and 2 for the over heads  http://futuremusic.com/blog/2008/07/21/motu-announces-ultralite-mk3/  Here is a layout of the new model but the output setup is the same
 
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SDC – small diaphragm condenser (e.g., sm81)
LDC – large diaphragm condenser (e.g., AKG 414)


What is your budget?

Here is an interesting article on my situation https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=131327

 I may have to go old school and use my Mackie 1202-VLZ3 mixer don't have money to get mics and a new pre amp with more inputs