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Originally Posted by Vinnie's Ice Cream
I've never heard or seen close micing with condensers on drums in modern recording. Like Damo said, the SPL would blow them away... that's a real fast way to learn a real simple lesson about mics.
Condensers are for condensing lots of sound. Dynamic mics are for direct sound sources.
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This is totally incorrect. There are tons of condenser mics that are designed to be used for close micing drums:
Shure Beta 91 (goes inside kick drum)
Shure Beta 98 (toms)
Sennheiser e901 (goes inside kick drum)
there are a bunch of others that are for similar applications that I can't think of right now.
I've even seen the FOH engineer for a well-known band use Shure KSM32's on close-mic'd toms!
The difference between condenser and dynamic mics is the kind of transducer element that they use. Dynamics use an inductor while condensers use a capacitor. Since the moving element of a condenser has less mass, they are often better at picking up transients and are more sensitive. They generally have wider pickup patterns and therefore make better overhead-type mics, which is probably what you mean by saying that they 'condense' the sound.