Well, this will be a short review (for the time being)....
Several weeks ago I was offered a PR35 to try by Bob Leonard as I wanted to try one on a drummer vocal. I had seen the demo by Bob Heil back at the Parsons Audio Expo of a wireless cartridge version of the PR35 and was impressed by the side and rear rejection.
So, I went over to Bob's place one day to pick up the mic and got an impressive demo of his new ProRack mixer and other toys. I recalled using the prototype of the ProRack back at the NYC Sub Shootout and marveled at how intuitive the desk was (especially since this one had random coloured knobs on it and no silk screening...). Oh, wait, I was talking about Heil mics....
Anyway, as I was heading out the door, Bob hands me a briefcase and says I got to take this too. It is the case full of Heil mics for drums!!!
So, off I go and do the gig I wanted to try the PR35 on which works great. Hardly much of any of the kit in it (some cymbal but what can you expect). I like it. I could not use any of the rest of the mic kit that night though.
Next, I wrench my back and am out of things for two weeks! Ouch! Oh, the next gig is only lighting since the orchestra is carrying it's own PA.
So, tonight I finally get to play with the drum mics (Sunday).
The drummer is cool with me doing what ever I want - he thinks the mics are neat too.
I use the PR35 on the lead singer and the two PR22s on the backup singers.
It takes a bit of work to get the PR35 right for this guy since he has such a lot of energy up around 4k but we get it done.
The result is good sound all night.
The PR22 takes less work for me and the backup guys sound great.
I had 4 channels to play with on the drums so...
I put the kick mic on the kick... duh. It was pretty transparent and for the room was a bit overwhelming so I notched out the low mids and it sounded good. For this genre a D6 would have worked well. The Heil needed some EQ to get it there.
I put a PR30 on the High Hat and it sounded great! No EQ other than the HP.
I put one of the tom mics on the Rack Tom. The drummer had looked at the Heil mount and said it was ok to put on his drum. He liked the rubber pad where it touched the rim. Nothing much to EQ and it sounded fine with a little gate. The clip worked real well and let me place the mic just where I wanted and out of the way of the drummer.
I use the last channel with another PR30. I put it such that it picked up both the Ride and the Floor Tom. A little position adjustment and both instruments sounded very good. Again with little EQ.
Anyway, the evening went well. The drums sounded great in the house. The PR22s worked very well on the vocals. In retrospect I would liked to have tried a PR22 on the main vocal too.
Will be a few weeks till I can try em again.
Several weeks ago I was offered a PR35 to try by Bob Leonard as I wanted to try one on a drummer vocal. I had seen the demo by Bob Heil back at the Parsons Audio Expo of a wireless cartridge version of the PR35 and was impressed by the side and rear rejection.
So, I went over to Bob's place one day to pick up the mic and got an impressive demo of his new ProRack mixer and other toys. I recalled using the prototype of the ProRack back at the NYC Sub Shootout and marveled at how intuitive the desk was (especially since this one had random coloured knobs on it and no silk screening...). Oh, wait, I was talking about Heil mics....
Anyway, as I was heading out the door, Bob hands me a briefcase and says I got to take this too. It is the case full of Heil mics for drums!!!
So, off I go and do the gig I wanted to try the PR35 on which works great. Hardly much of any of the kit in it (some cymbal but what can you expect). I like it. I could not use any of the rest of the mic kit that night though.
Next, I wrench my back and am out of things for two weeks! Ouch! Oh, the next gig is only lighting since the orchestra is carrying it's own PA.
So, tonight I finally get to play with the drum mics (Sunday).
The drummer is cool with me doing what ever I want - he thinks the mics are neat too.
I use the PR35 on the lead singer and the two PR22s on the backup singers.
It takes a bit of work to get the PR35 right for this guy since he has such a lot of energy up around 4k but we get it done.
The result is good sound all night.
The PR22 takes less work for me and the backup guys sound great.
I had 4 channels to play with on the drums so...
I put the kick mic on the kick... duh. It was pretty transparent and for the room was a bit overwhelming so I notched out the low mids and it sounded good. For this genre a D6 would have worked well. The Heil needed some EQ to get it there.
I put a PR30 on the High Hat and it sounded great! No EQ other than the HP.
I put one of the tom mics on the Rack Tom. The drummer had looked at the Heil mount and said it was ok to put on his drum. He liked the rubber pad where it touched the rim. Nothing much to EQ and it sounded fine with a little gate. The clip worked real well and let me place the mic just where I wanted and out of the way of the drummer.
I use the last channel with another PR30. I put it such that it picked up both the Ride and the Floor Tom. A little position adjustment and both instruments sounded very good. Again with little EQ.
Anyway, the evening went well. The drums sounded great in the house. The PR22s worked very well on the vocals. In retrospect I would liked to have tried a PR22 on the main vocal too.
Will be a few weeks till I can try em again.
