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Chad Sims

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Ribbon Mics and Drum SPLs
« on: November 25, 2004, 07:14:58 PM »

I have heard many on this forum mention again and again that they use ribbon mics as overheads to great success.  

What I was wondering is with some of the newer ribbon mics such as the Royers and Coles is this always safe.  These new ribbons are supposed to to be able to handle much higher SPLs than older ribbon mics, but would you use them on any drummer with any kit or only softer playing jazz type drummers.  

Just asking because I mainly record rather heavy rock bands and wanted to know if purchasing a set of these mics would be wise or are the ribbons gonna get blown out in a week.
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Re: Ribbon Mics and Drum SPLs
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2004, 01:10:23 AM »

Ribbons can handle high spl's, even the old RCA's.  It's wind that damages them.
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Re: Ribbon Mics and Drum SPLs
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2004, 03:49:42 AM »

Chad Sims wrote on Fri, 26 November 2004 01:14

I have heard many on this forum mention again and again that they use ribbon mics as overheads to great success.  

What I was wondering is with some of the newer ribbon mics such as the Royers and Coles is this always safe.  These new ribbons are supposed to to be able to handle much higher SPLs than older ribbon mics, but would you use them on any drummer with any kit or only softer playing jazz type drummers.  

Just asking because I mainly record rather heavy rock bands and wanted to know if purchasing a set of these mics would be wise or are the ribbons gonna get blown out in a week.


Knowing that Royer would repair my beloved R121 if the ribbin breaks the first time I used mine INSIDE a kick drum few days after I got my hand on it. With a foam filer and a pop filter in front if it. No problem. It took a stupid singer to blow it off. "Hey! Is this thing on?" Then a huge blast of air noise came thru the speakers. Time for repair.
If you take a look at Royer site there's some picture of a drum set with ribbon mics all around it, on the snare too. Go figure.

index.php/fa/419/0/

Cheers.

R.
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Re: Ribbon Mics and Drum SPLs
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2004, 10:59:09 AM »

I do mostly "loud Rawk" kinda drum recordings... and I use ribbons for overheads all the time... usually the Royer SF-12 but I have a couple of prototype "Dickensheid" [I'm sure I spelled that wrong] mics that get used a lot, as well as Coles 4038's and my new favorite the Coles 4040.

I have 3x Royer SF-1's that also get used in all kinds of applications that don't involve a lot of wind.

I hope this is of some assistance.

Peace.
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