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Originally Posted by James 'LA' Lugo  To each his own, I would never put a $1000 vintage mic 3 inches from a flying drum stick, it's not like you can't get a good snare sound with another mic. There's probably a 57 on half the records ever made. |
probably much more than half
but *I* prefer the sound of an 84, and so would never use a lesser mic (to my ears), given that clear preference, in order to 'protect' the mic against the remote possibility of it being hit
you can say that about anything
I CAN get a decent guitar sound with a cheap mic, like a 57, so why "risk" a ribbon or an 87 or UM70?
The singer might spit in it, so why use a 47 when some great vocals have been recorded with a 58?
why not just use $100 mics on everything 'just in case'?
And you can lock all your 'nice' mics up in the display case
Are we really going to say use the cheapest mic you can get away with to get a reasonably 'good' sound, when we actually think another mic would get a BETTER sound?