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Originally Posted by fargone
I've not tried the ND868, but I've always found the RE20 to have a natural sounding low end. It starts to roll off gently at 70Hz or so. Maybe you had the low end rolloff selected. I also like the RE20 for bass drum cause it's got a nice little boost around 3k for good pedal click. Using this inside next to the beater with a large daiphram condenser on the outside... mmmm... that'll get you your low end.
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The rolloff switch was not active. Although it may sound natural there are a few things that make it fall short of the sound I am looking for. There is too much 100Hz compared to say 60-70Hz with the RE20. I usually have to end up cutting out some of this frequency in the kick because this infringes on where the bass guitar (synth, whatever) lives. I prefer a mic with a little bump in the really low frequencies so I end up eq'ing less. Also with an RE20 you will have to add more of those frequencies if you want to be able to "feel" the kick when your mix is played through bigger speakers. Unless you got great eq's that you can spare on kick this is not somthing you want to fix in the mix.