And the real live sound is amazing.....does your home system/speakers have that real live sound ? - the attack of the snare or the clarity and decay of the bells.
Agreed that the recording is the limitation. Microphones are actually very good. The challenge is microphone placement! Drums sound different with less than a cm of microphone movement in any direction. Generally high overheads and a mix of close microphones works well but it is an art to get it to sound remotely like the real thing!
Drums also sound very different from the throne than from the audience. Sympathetic snare resonance can plague the drummer at the throne but audiences actually hear very little because of the way sound is projected.
For the very high frequencies (bells, triangles, cymbals, etc.), I stand by ESL’s or ribbons. For drums themselves, planar-magnetics, especially the Magneplanar Tympani T-IV and T-IVa (the best reproduction of my own Gretsch drumset), and perhaps the new MG30.7.
I have a pretty good CD recording of Tibetan Bowl Music and an actual Tibetan Bowl for compares. Sounds convincing on my main setup. A different kind of sonic treat...
We had a full drum set in house as well for many years. Nice reference test!
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