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Published on 03/16/10 at 16:00The Audix D6 is drum microphone design specifically for miking kick drums. I am a student, musician, writer, and pretty good line dancer residing in beautiful Nashville, TN. I've been a drummer and guitar player on and off for the past 10 years of my life and have began engineering and producing in the past 4. I currently play drums for the band Brookline and you can see me rockin' an Orange County Drum and Percussion or Mapex kit decked out with Zildjian K Hybrids.
Our studio bought this mic about 3 years ago for right around $200 from Sweetwater. We bought this mic to expand our mic catalog for a new studio at a Recording Arts college in Nashville, TN.
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This mic has great low end response and a accurate reaction to the attack of the beater as well. It is great as a kick mic in the live scenario and tends to sound great on just about any kick through a system and really sends some boom to the subs that hit the audience deep in the chest. It has a 14 dB boost in the 60Hz range and a 15dB boost around 4kHz giving a great mid range scoop while grabbing that beater sound.
This sounds pretty good in the studio but I prefer the AKG D112 or the Yamaha SubKick. It also claims to sound great wherever you choose to place it and this is most certainly not true. It has a lot of eq tuned into it that is supposedly geared towards the kick drum and I find that it makes it more difficult to get the sound I'm looking for in the studio because of it's sweeps and boosts.
It seems to be a well constructed mic. It has a strong black casing with a guard over the grill to reflect hits and protect it if dropped.
Bottome Line? This mic is great in the live scenario and beefs up just about any quick when pushing it through a system. It is a little to 'pre-tweaked' for my taste in the studio and doesn't lend nicely to EQ because of it's natural frequency curve. At this price, its a great value and gets the job done. This mic is receiving a '3' for studio application and a '4' for live use.
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Our studio bought this mic about 3 years ago for right around $200 from Sweetwater. We bought this mic to expand our mic catalog for a new studio at a Recording Arts college in Nashville, TN.
<a href="https://www.sweetwater.com">https://www.sweetwater.com</a>
This mic has great low end response and a accurate reaction to the attack of the beater as well. It is great as a kick mic in the live scenario and tends to sound great on just about any kick through a system and really sends some boom to the subs that hit the audience deep in the chest. It has a 14 dB boost in the 60Hz range and a 15dB boost around 4kHz giving a great mid range scoop while grabbing that beater sound.
This sounds pretty good in the studio but I prefer the AKG D112 or the Yamaha SubKick. It also claims to sound great wherever you choose to place it and this is most certainly not true. It has a lot of eq tuned into it that is supposedly geared towards the kick drum and I find that it makes it more difficult to get the sound I'm looking for in the studio because of it's sweeps and boosts.
It seems to be a well constructed mic. It has a strong black casing with a guard over the grill to reflect hits and protect it if dropped.
Bottome Line? This mic is great in the live scenario and beefs up just about any quick when pushing it through a system. It is a little to 'pre-tweaked' for my taste in the studio and doesn't lend nicely to EQ because of it's natural frequency curve. At this price, its a great value and gets the job done. This mic is receiving a '3' for studio application and a '4' for live use.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com