DRDK7 7-Piece Drum Mic Kit

I purchased these because a sound engineer had a pair he always used on my kit. Just used last night. medium sized club.. Wow.... Very happy I purchased. The tom mic fit nicely with the rims type mount by Tama.. which many do not. I have never been too picky about Tom mics.. I always spent more money on the kick Mic. I have used the AKG 112 then switched to the Shure Beta 52 A. for 3 rounds.. not very durable. Then went to the sE Electronics. Really like that one and it's adjustments. I bought this mic kit with the intension of giving the kick mic to my son... afterall... how good could it be???? or so I thought. I A Bd the two and instantly noted the DR was much hotter and very receptive to EQ. It stayed in the drum last night.. More small gigs this weekend with a big show next Friday to really be able to see what it does.... One draw back... on toms the mic connector is upside down.. Not allowing the right angle mic cables to use the way they should.. ugh.

I have been a sound guy for 30 years, and used just about everything there is to use. I've never been too picky over microphones, as long as they do their job. I generally stick with the standards, Shure, Sennheiser, Audix, EV and some AKG. However, I own a small sound company.... and I wanted stuff that could be left a bar gigs and that sort of thing, unattended, and not be a huge worry if something happened to them. When I do small gigs, I had always taken a basic PA system. But I was always taking really nice, expensive microphones...for gigs that didn't even really pay much. And in those settings...drum mics don't really have to be top notch, anyway. So I thought I'd buy a set of these cheap drum mic packs you see floating around. I initially wanted the NADY set, but Guitar Center didn't have them in stock, so I went with the Digital Reference mics (the 7pc set). I first used them with an 80s hair metal tribute band. I was really surprised how good they sounded. You do have to spend some time tweaking them on the mixing console. But I do that $1000 microphones too. They are durable enough, I'm not sending them on a world tour... and me and one or two other guys are the only ones ever handling them... so, they should last. I have no idea about the internals of the condenser mics, not sure the quality and long term reliability... but so far they are holding up. I wouldn't take these on the road with Steely Dan or anything... but for basic straight ahead band gigs, on smaller PA's... I get perfectly acceptable mixes from them. I've even experimented and used the tom mics on guitar cabinets and they sounded pretty good. I used the kick mic in a bass cabinet and it was awesome. The condensers are a little overly splashy... but judicious use of eq, usually solves it. I've used them for rock, country, jazz, Tejano, reggae, and maybe one or two others.... Never a problem. In situations short of national touring bands... these do just fine. And I've ever leave the gig in someone else hands, I'm not stressing/obsessing over my really expensive mics being left their. In fact, I've bought a range of cheap mics that are working just fine for me. NADY vocal mics, EV Cobalt instrument mics, a few cheap condensers... I can cover the whole stages needs in inexpensive mics.... and go home relatively worry free. And the shows generally sound good, if the band is halfway decent.