All user reviews of 5/5 for the Audix D6

Picked this one out of about ten played that day at American Music, Ventura, CA. Paid $350 in 2002. Sounded better than all the rest including a high priced Fender!

Extremely light, resonates nicely against my rib cage when playing, good sustain for an acoustic, nice bass response.

Have had to do a little surgery to get the action and playability where i like it. have lowered the bridge support (saddle?) and reset the truss rod a couple of times until the guitar aged enough for the wood and glue joints to stop "moving around". then had to file the frets. have also had to do this to high end Martins and Guilds costing many times more.

Wood: mahogany body and neck, spruce (?) top, rosewood fingerboard. Nice tuners. Frets seem durable.

While able to afford just about any guitar, couldn't justify the extra expense. A very nice instrument and a wonderful value for money

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The Audio D6 is a microphone touted as having a huge and undistorted kick drum sound by Audix. Audix engineered the D6 to have a diaphragm with very low mass so that the pickup of the beater of the kick drum is rapid and clean. The D6 is a cardioid microphone specifically tuned for kick and bass. It boasts a rather normal 30 Hz - 15,000 kHz frequency response range. It is also very compact, which makes it much easier to position in front of a kick drum.

OVERALL OPINION

I have generally found the Audix D6 to have a very explosive, thunderous quality to it. Despite Audix's claims, the D6 does not seem to have the tightness to it that one would expect, as the sound that this microphone produces compared to other kick drum microphones is huge. The problem with this is that the saturation of the sound tends to muddy up the general sound of whatever music is playing.

Therefore, I am not the hugest fan of this huge microphone's sound in the live setting. However, everything else that Audix boasts about is certainly true. I immensely enjoy the ease of positioning the microphone on a kick drum, and which for the sake of convenience, this feature is immensely useful, I honestly would prefer to be able to adjust a little bit of the saturated sound that this microphone puts out.

At any rate, the Audix D6 is a fantastic microphone for a recording situation if you are looking for that explosive boomy kick sound. Although it may not be for everyone, it certainly is a fantastic microphone for the situations that it lends itself to. It blows you away, and although that is not always a good thing, it is just as often a fantastic quality for a microphone to have.

It is a dynamic kick drum microphone.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a short month.
We arrive to find the sound you DSIR fairly quickly.

I have an essay pg 52 and a Shure Beta 52 .. I prfre largely audix.
Micro expensive but that sounds.

It advised me that plutt beta 52 and I'm glad that.
I was looking for a bass drum sound quite open in the spirit of jazz, not a big kick machine write, although it can make it sound like this ...
I think I would do this choice.

Micro specially miking bass drum
I confirm all the previous ones opinion: It's the ball! You put in the bass drum and sounds ... So if you have fun you get faster qualiser SOUND OF DEATH THAT KILLS!
I had tried before: Shure Beta 91 / D12 AKG / Sennheiser MD421 with the same battery and I never fully satisfied n'tais
The rest of the kit (toms mdiums D2, D4 on toms and bass on I5 CC) is of the same level!
And it's not expensive trs!

OVERALL OPINION

I confirm all the previous ones opinion: It's the ball! You put in the bass drum and sounds ... So if you have fun you get faster qualiser SOUND OF DEATH THAT KILLS!
I had tried before: Shure Beta 91 / D12 AKG / Sennheiser MD421 with the same battery and I never fully satisfied n'tais
The rest of the kit (toms mdiums D2, D4 on toms and bass on I5 CC) is of the same level!
And it's not expensive trs!

Mirco bass drum, dynamic.

OVERALL OPINION

I have to kick another mirco, the model home F14 Audix, I met for almost two years and I wanted to take a step up!

Conclusion: Really happy with the D6! It sounds "serious"!
For the time test in my home studio, all the elements of the battery are transplanted, pass into a console, I do my mix and adds a pc, cd ...
I wanted a big fat sound is closer to a live sound, great base, impact .. and found!

FYI, my sound system:
GC Tama Starclassic Perf B / B 24x18 (SKII + Regulator) + Audix D6 (inside the GC, pos on the foam of egg-shaped box that acts as a small cushion for the skin resonance) + Comp Dbx 266xl + Alesis Multimix 16FW + Shure e2c

Level features, see the website builder (frequency response from 30 Hz to 15 kHz, low noise electronic circuitry, low impedance and balanced output; aluminum body machined from a single block; ability to "cash in" levels 140 dB SPL oncoming ...).

Micro therefore dedicated to low frequencies, I use it on the bass drum's battery studio.Je've never tried it on a bass amp (we're taken through the instrument input of GTQ2> Soundcraft 3200> dbx160X > Apogee> SS32).

It seems more sturdy than the references say "indestructible" from Shure (SM57 and others ...).

OVERALL OPINION

That's 3 that I use, a year that I bought in a pack DP7.
I used the Sennheiser E902 and 602, and Shure Beta 52 before this one.

What I like most:
"He sounded like the bass drum bass drum of a disk, much less that I feel with the other 3 references.
"Very little" repisse ", like the rest of the range beyond.
Very well-matched to other mics of the same brand / same range.
"Not that expensive (look used on this forum).
A color-"full", like a lot.

What I like least:
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Paul

Dynamic spcialsé GC (we have already said, no?)

OVERALL OPINION

Used since qq months.

I second flight before (on GC):
D12, D112, Beta 52, MD21 (registration, to see), SM57 (bof) DPA4061 ((d) in enregustrement amazing!), M88 (the ball!) ...

The best: it works well.
A lot of 'kick' (a bit too, well, sometimes), and a deep grave, he should still be a little boost (aprèx compression).

DP5a purchased with a kit, I am very happy.
The D2 and D4 are good too - although the E604 is also suited me for Tom).
The i5: not tried.

My drum kit complete:
GC: D6
Snare: Revox M3500 (above) + Beta 57 (below - I'll try one of these i5 4)
Charley: Audix VX5 (Micro electret excellent voice, hyoercardio, with pad and high pass filter)
Toms: D2 + D4
Overhead: A pair of KM184 XY somewhat deviated ...

Excellent!

And, in brackets, Audix clips are also very practical.

The Audix D6 is a small dynamic microphone designed for use on a kick drum.  I've only used the mic inside of the recording studio, but it can definitely be used for live shows as well.  It is a compact microphone, which is a big plus as far as use with kick drum go as it makes it easy to place inside the kick.  The mic has a cardioid pick up pattern and will pick up frequencies in between 30 Hz and 15 KHz.

OVERALL OPINION

My use of the Audix D6 is limited to use with a kick drum inside of the recording studio, but I believe that the mic would have some versatility if I tried it out on other drums.  Having said this, this review will focus on the use of the D6 in tandem with a kick drum, as this is what the original purpose of the mic is and is what it is probably best for.  They say that the mic is actually tuned and tailored for use with a kick drum, which I don't doubt as it is great for this application.  While I do prefer the sound of an AKG D112 or a Shure Beta 52A, the Audix D6 is another fine choice for recording kick drum as it give you a nice and full sound, which both the low end booming and a nice attack to go along with it.  I love how compact the D6 is, as it makes it a breeze to stick inside of a kick drum and place it wherever I see fit.  I find that with some of the other kick drum mics that I previously mentioned, it can be a bit harder to fit them inside the kick drum and once I get them in there, it is a bit hard to move around.  These problems are washed away with the D6, which makes me think that it would be great for live shows since it would only take a second to place, although I can't say I've yet had experience using this mic in a live setting.  The price of the Audix D6 is right in the same range as the D112 and the 52A, so the three mics are probably a good place to start and shoot out when looking for a kick mic.  While the D6 wouldn't be my first choice of the three, it is a very solid mic on its own and should definitely be the discussion.

The D6 is a dynamic mic that is specifically designed for large drums. It has a very large dynamic capsule, so that it can respond better to the long wavelengths of bass frequencies. It is a cardioid polar pattern. There is no switchable pattern, and there is no pad for higher SPL's. There is also no low frequency filter, since the goal of this mic is to capture them. The mic connects with a standard XLR audio cable. The mic definitely has a tailored frequency response. There is definitely a bump in the low frequency area from 50Hz to maybe 200Hz. The mids seemed to be scooped out a bit until around 2-3k, and at that point there is definitely a spike. That is probably to help bring out the &quot;click&quot; in a kick drum to help it cut through in a mix instead of just sounding muffled and washed out. You could use this as your studio kick drum mic, and also as a live one.

OVERALL OPINION

I have had this for years, and I still haven't decided if I like this or AKG's D112 more. They are the same price, so it's an easy comparison to make. The D6 usually ends up with a sound that is beefier and has more weight to it, but it is often harder to get it to cut through in a mix than a kick recorded with the D112. Another nice use I have found for this mic is miking a bass amp. If you combine that signal with a DI signal from the bass, you can just use the miked signal to serve as the bottom end, and then use the crisp DI signal for the top. The result is a well balanced bass sound that won't turn to mush in a mix. It's only 200 dollars, so the price is low for a very nice kick sound. Gets my seal of approval.