Ever recorded trumpet w/kickdrum mic?

[Doc]

I've read where some suggest recording trumpet with a kickdrum mic
since those mics are supposed to be built to handle high SPL's. Well,
has anyone reading this actually tried this? How did it sound?

[EganMedia]

>Well,
>has anyone reading this actually tried this? How did it sound?

I have had good luck with a Beyer M380. I actually use it more for saxophone
than kick drums. I don't believe they're in production anymore, but you might
find one on ebay.


Joe Egan
EMP
Colchester, VT
www.eganmedia.com

[Felix C. Bartlo]

Doc wrote:
>
> I've read where some suggest recording trumpet with a kickdrum mic
> since those mics are supposed to be built to handle high SPL's. Well,
> has anyone reading this actually tried this? How did it sound?

It's hard to answer. "Kick-drum mic" is a very broad and vague
term. The AKG D-112 is designed for kick-drum use. It has a
very distinctive frequency response, which can be very good
for kick-drum. I would never consider using it for trumpet.

The ElectroVoice RE-20 (and its sibling the PL-20) are excellent
kick-drum mics, and are also quite common as vocal mics,
expecially for spoken-word recordings. They are also excellent
for trumpet. As is their smaller cousin, the PL-10 (which is
NOT the sibling of the RE-10). The Shure SM-57 is a good general-
purpose mic which can be very good (but perhaps not excellent)
for trumpet. The Sennheiser MD-421 is popular for drums, can
handle high SPLs, and is a great choice for any brass instrument
or saxophone.

You can often get a much better sound from a trumpet if you record
it with the microphone several feet away, in which case is is
less important to be concerned with SPL than if you mic it a few
inches from the bell.

It's not as simple as it might appear from the wording of the
question.