What is the best sounding microphone for soprano toms, any suggestions?

[Mike Stranks]

Meanwhile, the OP seems to have gone off the air...

[shufflebeat]

Meanwhile, the OP seems to have gone off the air...

Probably off catching cats. We’ll get by without.

[Drew Stephenson]

I think it's quite common for new folks to expect to get an email notification when people respond to the thread. They might be sitting there wondering why no-one wants to answer their question.

[Eddy Deegan]

Meanwhile, the OP seems to have gone off the air...

The replies are valid and useful to future readers in any case

[Mike Stranks]

Meanwhile, the OP seems to have gone off the air...

The replies are valid and useful to future readers in any case

Mais, oui! C'est vrai!

I simply wondered why he hadn't come back...

[Kwackman]

I simply wondered why he hadn't come back...

He only asked the question on Wednesday!
You young ones have no patience

[Hugh Robjohns]

The OP was here for about 90 minutes on the day he posted. He's not been back since.

I'm assuming he found the answer he wanted elsewhere, or just used what he had to hand and completed his recording.

[AlecSp]

I'm assuming he found the answer he wanted elsewhere

Yup. Always irritating when you are people posing on multiple forums as a matter of course. There are a few here who do that, sadly...

[shufflebeat]

Always irritating when you are people posing on multiple forums as a matter of course.

<Strikes an enigmatic, intense posture>

“Pooooo-oosing”, you say?

[Hugh Robjohns]

[Hugh Robjohns]

I haven't delved into the data to find out his location, but he posted here at 06.30 UK time, and departed around 07.30, so it's not really surprising that there were no responses in that time frame.

The first response came in about 3 hours after his post, and the first with specific mic suggestions 3.5 hours later.

[tacitus]

Yeah, well, whether or not the OP comes back to claim it, the advice is there now, gradually becoming a really useful something or other.

The cumulative thing puts me in mind of Purnell’s Knowledge magazine, “the colour magazine that builds into an encyclopaedia”, which we had at home when I was rather small, unfuriatingly feeble binders and all.

There’s a lot of skill and experience here, no binders needed, and even if you deplore the regular wanderings off-topic and the barrel-bottom jokes (I don’t: serendipity starts there) a lot of useful stuff is now written down that wasn’t before.

[Drew Stephenson]

There’s a lot of skill and experience here, no binders needed, and even if you deplore the regular wanderings off-topic and the barrel-bottom jokes (I don’t: serendipity starts there) a lot of useful stuff is now written down that wasn’t before.

Indeed, even if it's just, "If in doubt, stick an M201 on it."

[Hugh Robjohns]

On my first day on the job, thebTV sound supervisor I was working with said exactly that.... except it was C414 rather than M201... but actually, both work!

[Grim Audière]

excuse my ignorance, but, what is a soprano tom?

Google seems pretty silent on this.

Anyone?

My understanding is that they're tom drums with a much shallower depth than typical. Proportions more like a snare drum.

But we've established pretty strongly that my word shouldn't be taken on anything round here!

A soprano tom isn’t a standard term so it can mean anything you like but a tom’s register is given by its diameter not its depth, so typically this would be a small diameter tom arranged to the left (on a right handed kit) of the main toms. 8” or 10” for example. Alternatively it can be the highest tom placed in front on the drummer above the bass drum with the lower toms placed to the right hand side (e.g. Buddy Rich’s kit).

I have heard marching drums described in this way, but that’s mostly a US thing. Same principle though - small diameter drum(s) giving the highest note.