"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message

They indeed are. Although I've never seen a valve U87. And mine
certainly aren't.

I don't think it's performance is much different to its valve predecessor,
(U67 wasn't it?)

As a rule, AES articles don't mention specific products.

I think the Royce Hall project of which I spoke has been written about
recently.


It is generally understood that a very large proportion (most???) of the
*professional* microphones in the world are either Shure SM57 and close
derivatives or EV 635 and close derivatives. Both are magnetic, entirely
passive and contain no active components such as tubes.

I like to use Beyers and Shures on drum kits, (because I can't stand the
thought
of a drummer thrashing a Neumann suspended above the top cymbals:-)
Otherwise I use condensers.

By the way. do you ever get to record live drums?. I have a feeling it
may be a dying art in studios. At the start of the digi era, we took to
recording
a full kit guide track (to a click) and then one drum at a time
:-((((((((( Deadly.
I do quite a lot of jazz, where the kit is alive and kicking:-)


Iain