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«  A good micro battery kit priced US »

Published on 09/26/11 at 02:06
This is a kit of dynamic mics for drums (it lacks the overhead). Everything comes in a box of metal, in which there instead for overheads (even if they are not in this kit's).

OVERALL OPINION

Been there a few days the United States and tried on the stage.

Already tried before:
The kit Shure PGD MK6 (There's a long time)
Shure Beta 52 on GC (Good) and above E602 (means, but a lot of Tom Bass)
Shure Beta 57 on CC (and before SM57)
Sennheiser E604 Tom on
Beyerdynamic TG D58 C Tom Bass (and occasionally on snare)

What I like most is the homogeneity of the kit that is well balanced, powerful and cash well and seems especially strong. The i5 competitor on paper in the SM57 is very strong and is more accurate than the SM57. The snare was present and more powerful than the Beta 57 (with the same settings on the table).

D6 kit (bass drum mic), the distinction of sending the heavy as he is not. Compared to the Shure Beta 52, it is small and light: Excellent point! One might think that he will not give much when you see the template of micro: Think again, it sends the wood as they say!

The D2 (tom alto / medium) and D4 (floor tom) are very good too, well defined and present, not very large differences in contrast compared to my old pickups (especially compared to the Beyer is really good ). The advantage is that it sounds right away and do nothing (immediately easier to mix).

The fastening system seems odd at first, but is very useful, adjustments are easy and many can really position the microphone as you want. I used it also for the i5 on the snare, I was afraid to enter the microphone, but it does not bother me in the evening, I also think it has contributed to this "explosion" of sound snare 57 from the beta, it was better positioned. to see the evolution in time, hoping that this system aging well ...

The quality / price is right, it is especially excellent if it is purchased in the United States, for my part I got to $ 549 (about € 410 over € 40 shipping), comes with 5 XLR cables and more! ! At this price it's unbeatable, because it takes about 850 € in France (when found) and more than 700 € chez Thomann (and without cables!).

Yes I would do without hesitation that choice at that price because I have a very solid kit, quality, delivered in an equally strong case for no more than a Shure PG kit (which is way below in terms of quality acoustic and strength, but is good for starters)