beyerdynamic Opus 65

I've been playing drums since I was 9 yrs old (going on 37). My first recordings are of my drumkit using headphones as mics on a old tube taperecorder with reals. My specialism is probably recording drums. If have recorded hours and hours of music (tape-cassette quality) in the 90' with a friend to get through highschool. Then came the 4-track and later the 8-track cassette recorders I used extensively. After that I joined a band and have been in and out of studio's on several occasions and observing their techniques.

My standard gear is a rig build around a MOTU 828 mkII. To have more then just two mic pre-amps I hooked a behringer ADA8000 up on the Adat-opticals (i/o) and to be able to work with more musicians at once I got Samson S-Phone headphone amp. I use MOTU DP 4.6 on a 1 gigHz powerbook (with a replaced hard-drive for more tracks) as my DAW.
Monitoring : Alesis One MkII (active) and Beyer Dynamics DT770 headphones.

Note: this mic is DISCONTINUED. Still it's worth a buy if you get your hands on one !!

Type: Hypercardioid, high SPL, dynamic base-drum mic.

Sound: super ! I have used it mainly for my bass-drum and it rocks ! Sometimes I wonder why I should tinker with the eq at all. This mic really captures the roundness, warm sub-sub-low end of my bass-drum beautifully.Off-course when mastering you need to make sure that you blow anyones cones so you cut off all that beauty . . . I also tried it on a bass-cabinet but you do miss out on the higher end, perhaps in combination with a SP-C1.

This is the only mic I have worked with myself. My bass-drum has been recorded with a AKG bassdrum mic and a shure boundary condenser on different occasions and it all sounded very nice too but I did not have the raw sound-files to compare myself.