Lewitt Beatkit Pro 7-Piece Drum Mic Kit Review:
What To Expect from This Drum Mic Kit
Quality
These Lewitt microphones have been specifically designed to pick up all the frequencies that drums and cymbals produce. They make your drum mix very personal, as they pick up every small sound that you need.
The MTP 440 snare drum mic is quite lively, giving you a punchy and articulate snare drum sound.
The DTP 640 kick drum mic is one of the most interesting mics we’ve seen in a while, as it shares condenser and dynamic capsules. They’re phase-aligned, giving you a serious amount of control over your kick drum sound.
The MTP440 tom mics are very true to how your toms sound, and the LCT 140 overheads round out the overall sound of your kit very nicely.
Construction
When looking at these microphones, you’ll notice how well-built they look. Each microphone has a few switches to help you with frequency settings, with all of them being useful depending on how you want your drums to sound.
The kick drum mic is the most interesting of the bunch when it comes to construction. The two phase-aligned capsules are quite unique to see, and the kit includes a special cable that you need to make this microphone work.
The kit comes with a mil-spec transport case. It’s highly durable, and it will keep your microphones very safe when you store them or travel with them.
Performance
The beauty of high-end microphones is that they do a lot of work for you when you’re mixing. Once you have all these Lewitt microphones setup with an interface or mixer, they’ll already bring fantastic sounds out of your drum set.
You just need to do a bit of tweaking in your mix to get sounds and effects that you want. When hearing these mics in action, we though they sounded very true to the original sound sources, which is a fantastic quality to have.
Price Value Ratio
Not everyone has $1000 to spend on a set of drum microphones. That means that this Lewitt Beatkit pack isn’t a viable option for many drummers.
However, it’s a high-end set of microphones that you’ll most likely use for decades. If you look at them through that lens, you’ll see their value a lot easier.
While $1000 is expensive, we’d say that these microphones are more than worth the price that you’ll pay for them.
If that’s too expensive, there are several top-tier bundle options that are only half the price. They just won’t give you the same clarity and refined sound that these Lewitt mics will give you.