I like a certain SM57 I have that can add some nice lower mids to the
overheads. But it's only mixed in about 20%, I basically agree with
Scott that the OHs are the real sound. Some people like the Beyer M201
dynamic on snare, which is brighter than the Shure.

On all those old Al Green records they miked the snare with RCA DX77
ribbon mics, sounded pretty fat. I think they used ribbon mics for
the overheads too.

Al

On 4 Jan 2005 15:26:22 -0800, "Stubert" wrote:

What's the best snare mic you've experienced? A Beyer M260? The Blue
8Ball? someone even told me that 414's work great..

Stubert!