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Old 7th March 2006   #1
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D4 on snare?
maybe its a fluke...but for the second time i tried throwing a D4 on the snare and i ended up REALLY liking it. its 2 for 2.

the first time was with a brass snare tuned really low and open, so i atributed the fatness to the drum/tuning. but just last night i was using a birch snare tuned medium-tight. and it still sounded suprisingly full.

i'm a hack so naturally you should be skeptical. but i actually don't think i like the audix stuff that much, cept live. they make drums sound really...tight. as if there is some weird gate closing at the end of the hit...they don't breathe naturally to me. but for some reason, on the snare that D4 sounds super fat.

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Of all the d-series mics the D-4 is the most natural sounding with a very organic bottom end. I've had luck with it on jazz type kicks and on bass cabs for live and studio. If that floats your boat on snare it would not surprise me. Probably fairly natural through the mids and highs and slightly big through the bottom. The other great application for a d-series that I have found is on bottom snare. Specifically the D-2. Just smokes every other dynamic I have used in that slot. Studio or live. Thanx for passing on the idea.

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oh, it's a MICROPHONE!

..i was having alesis D-4 drum replacement flashbacks...
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