Sennheiser e602 II Dynamic Instrument Microphone

I had this mike mounted up inside my kick drum. It has HUGE low end presence, more so than any other kick mike, but little beater click, even with lots of EQ. I would maybe recommend this for miking a front kick drum head, but not as your primary kick drum mike. It also sounds EXCELLENT as a floor tom mike - very natural sounding. I imagine it would good for miking bass cabs as well.

Consider this a pure personal preference review. I have no issues with build quality etc. I bought this mic hoping it would serve the role as a "inside" kick mic used in conjunction with a LDC on the outside. I was hoping this mic would get the snap and attack of the beater. Again, pure personal preference, but I just hated the sounds I was getting. I tried as many placements inside the kick as I could. Different angles. Different distances from the beater etc. Even with lots of eq experimentation I just never got a sound I liked. Seeing as I now had a mic I really didn't know what to do with, I threw it in front of a bass cab. Totally blown away! I used to mix a DI and mic plus eq compression etc. on bass cabs. Now I pretty much just throw the Sennheiser e 602 II in front of the cab and leave it at that.

The 602 replaced a 20 year old D112 that always sounded boxy to me. Great improvement over that 'industry standard' mic. I also like that it's streamlined enough to get inside a small hole in a reso head, which was another fault of the D112. Very happy with the sound I'm getting now although I still mix it with a bit of a BFD3 bass drum sample to get a super punchy sound.

Finally got a chance to mic up my bass cabinet with this mic. Wow. I had my 1974 bassman 50 pushing 2 Weber bass15 speakers and this mic running through a Heritage audio '73jr into the preamp bypass of my Audient ID22. Previously I have been using a DI into the '73 jr and using amp emulators. That was a good method, but with this mic I have a next level sound. My old DI recordings sound thin in comparison. Now they sound like a bass ought to. Huge and Vibrant, with a greater sense of space and musicality and realism. I may be ahead of you with my gear collection, but this mic is the real deal for recording bass cabinets and may be a good place to start...

I use them on toms when I want some rock beef ..I have 421's too but I end up using the 602's more for rock .. For faster tempo songs I like it better than my B52 on Kick