I personally liked the OD-5 more than any of the others, taking in account the placement of course. It was kind of subtle in the transients and creamy in the low mids, giving a solid body to the snare. MD421 was a bit too harsh and even nasal to my liking, again...placement maybe.
I'm guessing "no text" parts mean AKG 414. If so, that's my favorite. OC-7 at second place. And if I would've received that MD421 snare to mix, it would have been trigger replacement time.
OC-7 was best-sounding overall but had a bit too much hi-hat bleed. I suppose it's the one in the middle. OD-5 was positioned underneath the hi-hat which helped to reduce the bleed, but the snare sound was a bit worse than OC-7 (less open, less articulate transient).
Both of them sounds very "new" and clean. I like it very much. Would probably sound nice on brass elements and percussion too. Thanks for sharing as usual!
If you can ever get your hands on some microphones from Advanced Audio in Canada, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I've been blown away by how great they are, and they're vastly cheaper than you'd expect. Really great microphones.
SEN MD421.. top!. Not sure if the transients saturate the heights. It sounds more punchy and you can hear the room noise and snare tone as well. What a question!
Great as always! I really like the OC's the bleed from the hats were way darker and EQing the snare will be so much easier than than the bleed from the other mic's.🤘
When it first switched to the 421 ( while text was showing ) we had one tone. Shortly after ( when the camera moved up ) , that tone got deeper. Being very old school, i'd used 421's on toms.........but now i know a little piccolo snare that just might like a bit of 421 teatment.
The snare rings out a lot longer on the OC7 and 414... makes sense the capsule on the condensers would vibrate longer than the dynamics. To me it sounds like Austrian tried to voice their dynamic to sound more like their condenser. And I'm not sure it works. Maybe. Hell, I don't even know that's what they were going for, just sounds like it to me. On the whole, I preferred the Sennie to the AA, but preferred the AA to the AKG. All caveats for placement, etc. I'm really becoming a big fan of Austrian Audio. Though I didn't love the OD5 in this shootout, I really think that between them and JZ I could complete a pro-quality mic locker and save some money for the one thing they don't offer, a good tube mic.
I'm surprised the MD421 had the most apparent hi-hat bleed of all. Also, it changed the tone of the hi-hat in a very annoying way. I'm not sure how much the placement did in this case, but the OD-5 wins this round imo. I wonder if I'd say the same in case of a full mix, though.
I don't like the sound of SM57 at all. I cannot really explain what's wrong about it, but I also do realise that when ever I have worked with that mic, the quality of the drums and especially tuning might have been the biggest or possibly even the only one degrading factor.
I'm a little skeptical of your test setup. Every degree of rotation around the rim that snare drum could produce a different sound, and here are your mics spanning a good 40 degrees. You should have done a pass with four of the same mic arranged like that to see what kind of differences you'd get. Otherwise how do you know for sure which sonic differences are attributable to the mic and which to the position?
@@Whiteseastudio I hear you. These kinds of tests are hard. The best way to do it might be with a robot drummer that can repeat performances with minimal variation.
MD 421.. (On everything) But non of them helps with the groove of course... Also nowadays is so easy to do drums replacement and/or adding extra layers of samples to make it more fat or whatever... But soon A.I. will give us Jeff Porcaro as a session drummer to every (quality) projects.
for this snare setup i go with the MD421... the other mics reproduce some ringing and high freq of the sn i dont like... Well the OC7 was also very nice
Come on the real reason you didn't like the switches was because you destroyed your nails while trying to use them. That's a bias not everyone has. (I'm joking)
Spoiler alert: the drummer is there to facilitate a mic comparison video. Loads of musicians could learn from this, because I requested him to play the same fill to create a more equal comparison...