Shure SM81-LC Cardioid Condenser Instrument Microphone for Guitar, Piano, and Cymbals, includes Swivel Adapter, Attenuator-Switch Lock, Windscreen, Carrying Case, No Cable Included (SM81-LC)

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You can see how the hi-hat mic is positioned in one of my most recent recording sessions in the image below. The journey should have been flown in less than four and a half hours at 260–270km/h (160-170mph), but on encountering strong headwinds at 1,000m (3,280ft) they climbed to 3,500m (11,480ft). the best cruise altitude for the Alfa Romeo 125 engines. After five hours they were still an hour from their final destination of Melilla in Morocco. Trying to maintain tight formation despite the clouds was also fuel-costly, with non-linear flight, only nine aircraft managed to land at Melilla. One ditched in the sea, another crash-landed and a third force-landed without damage in Algeria. The remaining aircraft arrived with an average of only 130L (34US gal) of fuel remaining in the tanks, the most being the 200L (53US gal) left. This aircraft was sent to search for the missing SM.81s. Being only 3% of the total fuel capacity, this was enough for just a few minutes of flight and meant that, with only a slightly stronger headwind, all of them would have been lost or forced to land in Algeria. The surviving aircraft were valuable assets and soon put to use as troop-transports and bombers. With that being said, some microphones and gear suit some instruments better than others, prompting this series of articles under “Recommended Microphones And Accessories.” Of more interest is its frequency response curve that's incredibly flat. Self-noise is very low, output is high and it exhibits minimum colouration, even off axis. In short, it’s a dream to work with. Reproduction is faithful and its uniform, transparent character makes multi-mic setups a breeze.

This mic can capture acoustic instruments beautifully and can also be used to record very loud sources like a fully cranked guitar amp. After thousands of hours flown by 90 to 100 aircraft, at least 64 surviving SM.81s were left behind in Spain in the G-12 Group at the end of 1938. One example was lost near the end of the war in 1939 along with the lives of many senior officers. The precise total number of SM.81 losses during the war in combat and from operational causes is not known. All the mics listed above have frequency response ranges between 40 and 20 000 Hz, making them perfect options for hi-hat mics.When choosing a microphone for any application, it's to our great advantage to know the characteristics of the sound source. So what does a ukulele sound like? There are many ways to manually remove hi-hat audio bleeding, such as ramping up a highpass filter or positioning your microphones a bit differently. Most SM.81s were withdrawn from use by the time of the Italian armistice of 1943, although some remained in service of both the Italian Social Republic and the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force. Several examples survived the war and went on to serve the Aeronautica Militare Italiana, but by 1950 they had all been retired. The SM.81's bomb bay was divided into two parts with a passage linking aft and mid fuselage between, and could accommodate a wide range of ordnance up to a total of 2,000kg (4,410lb) over short ranges, with individual bombs of up to 500kg (1,100lb), arranged either horizontally or vertically: [5]

Even though it is marketed as an instrument microphone, it’s perfect for drum cymbals because of its high-output clipping power. The interior of all Regia aeronautica aircraft are painted in verde anticorrosione but each manufacturer had a different mixture.The only exception are SIAI built Savoia Marchetti SM79 that are painted in grigio azzurro chiaro.This mic comes with a low RF susceptibility that mitigates radio interference so your takes aren’t ruined with unnecessary noise.