For a minimal setup I would use the condensers as overhead mics and individually mic the kick and snare.

Reft and Light are easily foncused…

Very expensive but well worth it and most convenient for this kind of application:
https://schoeps.de/en/products/ccm/ccm- ... ccm-4.html

Very compact, and no, they don’t just get used indoors to record classical music.

I use the AT 4080 for vocals.
Check this out:

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/au ... 080-at4081

Maybe music and arts is more important right now than we may realize…

I've listened to the 8010s a lot over the last few years …I use them for confirmation monitoring when recording. Recently I did a few mixes using them as monitors in my recording room, just for fun.(I usually do my mixing in another room) They were perfectly adequate for me. My main monitors for mi...

Sam Inglis wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 10:09 am MBHO / Haun in Germany make good modular small-diaphragm mics that are more affordable than Schoeps etc, and have a diffuse-field omni capsule in the range.

WOW!!!

+1 for the cm4’s.

That’s revealing…and surprising. I won’t mention any brands here. Anyway, I trust you more than anyone else.

SamWilkins wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 5:11 pm …However, I realise they are old, discontinued pieces of gear that I assume would only cause issues when trying to pair them with modern gear.

I haven’t had any issues. What exactly are you thinking of? I pair my old 003 with RME FireFace UCX or Aufient iD44 without problems.

I use two “old” control surfaces (C|24 and my trusty Digi 003). Both running on old versions of Pro Tools (12.8.x) that I decided to stick with because they do what I need them to do. The C|24 is hooked up to a WIN 7 HP Workstation and the 003 to an old 2012 MacBook Pro because it was the last versi...

Also be aware the H4n, other than the pro, can only take mic or instrument level input on the combo jack. Definitely can’t cope with line level unattenuated.