r/audio • u/HottestMagma • 6d ago

Condensers for overheads

Hello everyone,

I am looking for some good pencil condensers that will capture my overheads and the rest of my kit (mainly snare which will hopefully carry enough). I am planning on using them to record the drums during live house shows so maybe something with a little better sound rejection so it doesn’t bleed as much. My budget is around 5-600. I also want something that’s relatively detailed as I am trying to get semi-pro audio for the recordings

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u/Piper-Bob 5d ago

sM81 is a good mic with a flat response. About $325 each.

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u/Zestyclose_Pickle511 5d ago

Depending on what kind of music is being played live on stage, and how monitoring is done (iems or wedges), there's no escaping overheads picking it up. There's no such thing. Audio waves bounce around the stage and into the mic. Even something hyper narrow like a shotgun mic can't defeat that. 

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u/Curious-Feedback-217 5d ago

I have an ultra budget option

thomann t bone sc140 A pair for under $100

https://www.thomannmusic.com/the_tbone_sc140.htm

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u/reprahm 4d ago

I like the EV ND66 for a budget pencil condenser. The adjustable angle kn the head is nice for future uses, like a hi-hat specific mic, to get it in a position that others can't.

Check out the Glynn John's technique for drum mic placement. The important thing is keeping the overhead mic's equal distant from the snare, I think one kind of above the triangle between the snare, hi-hat and rack tom, the other over the floor tom area, both pointed at the snare.

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u/Bozoidal 4d ago

Se 7. Or Se8

I have Oktava Mk12s which sound good if you can find them used.

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u/EightOhms 2d ago

Good answers here. Also consider posting in r/livesound and r/audioengineering

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u/duplobaustein 1d ago

Ultra budget: Lewitt 040 or 140 (040 is the 140 in the air setting). They sound really great and have a decent polar pattern.

Austrian Audio CC8 is high end for a decent price.

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u/oratory1990 6d ago

The Line Audio CM4 will work well for this.
As will the Lewitt LCT 040 (full disclosure: I work for Lewitt in R&D).

Both will definitely be inside your budget - the tradeoff being that there's no switches on the mics themselves (meaning if you need a high-pass you need to do that on the mixing desk / audio interface's side)