{"id":24732,"date":"2021-11-20T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24732"},"modified":"2025-03-02T16:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T00:49:13","slug":"earthworks-audio-dm20-dm30-crimson-audio-shure-sm57-mic-test-on-snare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24732","title":{"rendered":"Earthworks Audio DM20, DM30, Crimson Audio \/ Shure SM57 mic test on snare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EricBeam1313\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now let&#8217;s see what we have here. The formidable Mr Gunn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/DonGunnRecording\/videos\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\/\u00a0dongunnrecording\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> sent me his @Earthworksaudio DM20 to compare against my DM30. I&#8217;m a big fan of Earthworks Mics but historically they haven&#8217;t been able to handle the SPL\/drum transients I throw their way. About to find out if the DM 20 is up for the task. If it can handle a @keplingerdrums snare, it can handle any drum. My GoTo Crimson Audio Transformer mod&#8217;d Shure 57 is included as a control. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/microphones\">#microphones<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/drums\">#Drums<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/earthworks\">#Earthworks <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/recording\">#recording<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/remo\">#remo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YUlkFmsTGoo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now let&#8217;s see what we have here. The formidable Mr Gunn \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\/\u00a0dongunnrecording\u00a0\u00a0 sent me his&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24732\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earthworks Audio DM20, DM30, Crimson Audio \/ Shure SM57 mic test on snare<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/earthworks-audio-dm20-dm30-crims.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24396,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24396","url_meta":{"origin":24732,"position":0},"title":"AKG C 414 B-ULS vs Earthworks SR78 for drum overhead applications.","author":"Eric","date":"April 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I wanted to see how the 414 & SR78 measured up for overhead duties. 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