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Reviews (6)
12 October 2017
Absolutely the best mountable drum mics on the market
1 of 1 found this helpful OK lemme get the bad part out of the way. The mounts themselves are terrible, and you'll want to get something else down the road for mounting on the toms and snare.
But as for sound quality. These mics sound SO good. If you had to play a gig and had no time to EQ them, or perhaps the EQ was broken the drums would still sound great with these mics.
We even record with these and they just sound wonderful.
09 November 2015
Just fantastic.
I really don't know how I made records without it. It's just so damn useful. I use it not only to re-amp but to audition different pedal configurations, eq settings, amps, speakers, components, etc. It's amazing and the sound quality is top notch.
Sennheiser MD 431 II Dynamic Professional Microphone
31 December 2017
Effortless....
1 of 1 found this helpful ...That was the response our lead singer had when we first tested one. I thought she was exaggerating until I sang through it, and it was just that... effortless. We are a LOUD rock band and after an exhaustive search for the best high-stage-volume, gain before feedback mic, this was the clear winner. We had tried an SM58, Beta,58, OM5, e835, e935 and were not happy with any of them except the OM5, but the OM5 was NOT in the same class with the MD431. BTW thanks for paying over $100 each for all of our old BETA's that were collecting dust so we could afford these.
We now have 3 of them - one for each person in the band who sings, and feedback in our tiny rehearsal space and on stage is now something we joke about.... "Remember when we couldn't hear ourselves??"
What people don't like about these mics is the flat response. They're not used to it. They're used to mics with response curves similar to the other mics I mentioned, and this mic is another animal. They spend more money than they're ever spent on a live dynamic vocal mic, and instead of it blowing them away the moment they plug it in, they hear the flat response and are like.... "I think it's broken. Is it supposed to sound like that?" The answer is YES. It's supposed to sound exactly like that. It is completely uncolored. You will NEED a parametric EQ to use this mic in order to sculpt the perfect tone. The bass response is BOOMING, so you'll need to roll that off starting somewhere between 100-200hz depending on the singer, and a fundamental understanding of where the dead spots are at 120 degrees from the tip in order to place your monitor wedges correctly and kiss feedback good-bye. These need a lot of preamp power, so dirty preamps are out. Midas and Studer preamps love these mics, but you will be cranking the input level quite a lot. The smoothness of the high end, and the crystal clear clarity on vocals are beyond anything else we tried. And you don't have to scream into this mic, just sing.... it does all the heavy lifting. I'm assuming that this effortlessness is stemming from the supercardiod design, but the Beta's were supercardiod and they didn't perform like this.
So in conclusion: if you have a decent portable digital mixer like say an X-18 or Ui24 with a 4-5 band parametric EQ for each input, enough engineering knowledge to sculpt the tone, and at least 3 AUX outputs to run each channel through and EQ them properly before giving them individually to the sound guy/bartender at the gig, then this is the mic for you. And after one performance you'll wonder why you allowed yourself to suffer for all that time prior.
If not.... enjoy those BETAs we sold you and all that feedback.