Category Archives for "Microphones"

New Music Gear Monday: Microphone Parts DIY Microphone Kit

Microphone Parts S-12 kit

There are so many great boutique microphone manufacturers these days, that’s it’s pretty easy to buy a pretty good mic for a reasonable amount of money. The quality of the classic microphone clones continues to get better while the price seems to keep coming down. That said, if you’re willing to put in a little […]

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New Music Gear Monday: Audio Technica ATM230 Tom Microphone

ATM230

It doesn’t matter what microphone you like to use on toms, because chances are that it’s going to pick up a lot of the cymbals as well. This is pretty typical because most of the mics that end up on toms have a cardioid pattern. The problem is that there aren’t too many true hypercardioid […]

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