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Published on 10/29/11 at 17:18
The Audix D1 is a hypercardioid dynamic microphone manufactured by Audix, a company known very well for its designing of specialty dynamic microphones. It is part of Audix's D series of microphones, peculiarly shaped microphones that are designed to be put in very high sound pressure level situations. Firstly, the hypercardioid pattern is a common trait in many Audix microphones, because their vision of microphones is that every single thing should have a microphone on a stage. This leads Audix to aggressively engineer their microphones with very tight patterns, allowing fantastic off axis rejection and preventing instrument bleed. The D1 has a particularly tight pattern, and with its incredibly small size, at under 4 inches long and just over a quarter pound in weight. Audix touts many features in the D1, particularly its very low mass diaphragm, which ensures a very good transient response to the sound. This is important, with the quickness of percussion, many dynamics struggle with this, but the D1 is particularly good at capturing the punch of the percussion. The D1, unlike many of its siblings, is relatively clean, and produces an authentic, natural sound.
The Audix D1 has an extremely impressive frequency response from 30 Hz all the way to the high end at 20,000 Hz, and can handle a very respectable sound pressure level of 144 dB.
Because of this, it is well suited to micing up things in the recording studio, and particularly good in smaller venues, where the reflections can get a little bit overwhelming.
OVERALL OPINION
When I tested the D1, I was a huge fan of how unobtrusive the microphone sounded, especially against Audix's tendency to create overly specific thunder microphones that just explode and often oversaturate. The sound of the Audix D1 is by no means at all dead. In fact, it is quite lively and sweet sounding, and Audix even says it could be used for things other than drums, like flute, even. Because of this, I can easily recommend the Audix D1 to many artists who just need something less in your face than the other microphones that Audix puts out for percussion and high sound pressure level sources.
The Audix D1 has an extremely impressive frequency response from 30 Hz all the way to the high end at 20,000 Hz, and can handle a very respectable sound pressure level of 144 dB.
Because of this, it is well suited to micing up things in the recording studio, and particularly good in smaller venues, where the reflections can get a little bit overwhelming.
OVERALL OPINION
When I tested the D1, I was a huge fan of how unobtrusive the microphone sounded, especially against Audix's tendency to create overly specific thunder microphones that just explode and often oversaturate. The sound of the Audix D1 is by no means at all dead. In fact, it is quite lively and sweet sounding, and Audix even says it could be used for things other than drums, like flute, even. Because of this, I can easily recommend the Audix D1 to many artists who just need something less in your face than the other microphones that Audix puts out for percussion and high sound pressure level sources.