Hey everybody, how's it going um so today we're gonna be checking out the LeWitt drum mics
I got this package in the mail from Lewitt
And my good friend Randy Fuchs over at artist relations, I'd like to thank him for setting this up
Warren, over at Produce Like A Pro has been going on and on and on about these Lewitt mics for quite some time and
If you check out that mix we did for Nears Got Me it, might not be out yet,
if it's not out yet, it will be. We used a lot of the Lewitt stuff on it, and yeah
We got a really phenomenal drum sound so really been looking forward to get my hands on these for a while
this is like a complete drum mic package and
Yeah... always cut away from yourself, idiot! [Giggles]
And yeah like I siad, I've been looking forward to get my hands on these like these are these are definitely pro
level mics and the Lewitt stuffs phenomenal I use their
I used their interviewer mic a NAMM and that was great, it's a
really quiet there's not a lot of noise and what not so I'm very impressed with the Lewitt stuff
So let's see what we get here
This is the Lewitt beat kit pro 7 and we get a nice, holy crap!!!, that's a really badass hardshell case
Oh my god.
Thank you, I definitely gotta get myself a more attractive assistant than you TJ [TJ: There's a reason I'm off camera]
Alright, so uh yeah, let's take a look here
You know the Sony camera I have as overhead naturally crapped out, so yeah, we can bring that in now
Here's the Sony yes, let's take a look
And
so it looks like we get
Now I've used these before
This is the kick mic. It's a dual element. It's a condenser and a
Dynamic as well, so you can blend the tone that might be really badass
I might want to try that on the snare even, because I use that combination all the time on a snare with the Wilkinson clip
Here's the Lewitt pencil condensers again. These might be pretty awesome
Very curious to see how these are gonna sound as overheads
I've got some favorites, so it's a pretty tough order to follow, but you know Lewitt might be able to pull it off
We've got three Tom mics. I'm kind of point there
Isn't a fourth to be honest with you, but 90% of the time
we're only on three Tom likes anyway, so no big deal
This is obviously for the snare. This is the MTP 440 DM
440 DM and
That's our snare mic and the special cable for the for the kick drum
so that's pretty sick, and I love this you know you get just pull the top out and
Then you've got all your connectors to
mount the Tom mics directly on the toms which would be great, that'll save a lot of floor space. I don't know
Whether or not to do that for real. It's really a subject that's up for debate
I've had good results using both methods, but right now
I've got the Triad-Orbit stuff and that saves a lot in terms of mic stands
so you know I just might might keep them off the stands for the time being but I mean like if you're
Going to be recording a live gig
Yes, these it can be absolute lifesavers, and then you know they've got the adapters for the condensers as well
So that's that's pretty robust right there. I'm sure that's where the you know the kick mic. Just mounts directly. Oh, that's awesome
Well you need a clip for it
Cutting over here, we've got the mic setup now. I've got the lct 340
Small diaphragm condensers set up in a space pair overhead configuration and check this out right there
that's pretty cool and
Yeah, I'll just slide down here. Take a look. There's the kit over on the Tom's we got the DTP 340s and
These are sounding really cool. They're really easy to place
And of course I got the DTP 640 kick mic places well inside this port
And we've got a Salomon low freq picking up the very low bottom end as well
And we've got the snare mic place. This is the MTP 440
and as you can see I've got it paired up with my usual Studio Project C4 and you know it's pretty cool
I gotta say I'm really impressed with this mic in fact
I've taken the c4 out of the mix for these demos because honestly I think it's just making the sound 'boxier'
I don't know what Lutz cooked up here, but it's very high resolution for a dynamic, and it really has a lot of
Bandwidth, that'd probably be the best word for it
It just covers a very large frequency range, and I think I can get away with just the once snare mic
Hey Cam. How's it going?
You guys seen Cam on my show quite a bit he's played a lot of demos and stuff
Cam's also a YouTuber and his channel is
youtube.com forward slash
cameronfleury. We have the all-new pure alloy by meinl and these are
15-inch high hats and they're a medium thickness
pretty sweet
Moving forward, this is a 17 inch extreme classics
crash
Really heavy hammering, and it's a thicker cymbal great for metal musicians
We have its bigger brother over here the 18 inch version so a little washer
What's the ride here that looks like a pure on way as well yeah, it's it's also a pure alloy, and it is a 20-inch
All right, so what is this over here this over here is a 16 over 18 inch classics custom stack