{"id":24871,"date":"2023-10-06T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24871"},"modified":"2025-03-02T18:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:51:23","slug":"akg-414-ebs-heil-pr-31s-rack-tom-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24871","title":{"rendered":"AKG 414 EB&#8217;s &#038; HEil PR 31&#8217;s Rack Tom comparison."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Audio geekery\u2122 time. I go back and forth between Dynamic and Condenser mics every few years. I decided to compare my current two GoTo&#8217;s on my 10&#8243; &amp; 12&#8243; rack toms in a mix context. It&#8217;s surprising when all the faders are up what actually makes a difference. Here is an A\/B between some @akgaudio 414 EB&#8217;s &amp; @heilsound PR 31&#8217;s, any opinions? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/drums\">#drums<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/microphones\">#microphones<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/drumlife\">#drumlife<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/recording\">#recording<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/audiogeekery\">#audiogeekery<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/heilsound\">#heilsound<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/akg\">#akg<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EricBeam1313\"><\/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\/eEfD-w3vhxs?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>Audio geekery\u2122 time. I go back and forth between Dynamic and Condenser mics every few&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24871\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AKG 414 EB&#8217;s &#038; HEil PR 31&#8217;s Rack Tom comparison.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24872,"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-24871","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\/akg-414-ebs-heil-pr-31s-rack-tom.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24396,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24396","url_meta":{"origin":24871,"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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