Unless your heading out on tour, these mic's are more than good enough to give you a quality sound. All around and for a great price, also very durable. after all it's a shure!!

Once upon a time, when I was on more of a budget, I had picked up a set of drum mics that cost around $150. I have regretted this ever since. Recently, I got back into school and had student loans, but still not unlimited amounts of money. Iong story short, I love this PG 6 piece mic set. I don't have much experience with mega expensive mics, and I'm sure there are better mics, but the sound these give you is amazing. A person who can't afford $10,000 of mics should be grateful this exists. Personally, I have a 6 piece drum set, and use an sm57 on the snare, a beta52 for the bass, and I use the pg52 that came with this set for the floor tom, the pg56's on the rest of the toms, and obviously the pg 81's for overheads. While my set up has a few more mics, I have used a pg52 on bass drum before, and it sounds great (for bass guitar, too). I usually prefer the sm57 for snare, but the pg56 sound is not bad. It is nice to have different options for recording, especially if you like to experiment with the sound as I do. Signal to noise ratio is great, even when throwing some compression on the input. Of course, as any drummer who usually produces and engineers for the bands I'm in would, I would eventually like to have many ridiculously expensive mics in my collection. I can honestly say that when that time comes, these mics are good enough to stick around, as options at least. Do yourself a favor if you're broke, but still NEED good sound like I do, shell out a little extra $$ for these the next time you are thinking of getting mics. It will save you a lot of anger and stress in the long run.

The Shure PG series of microphones is for those who need a mic just to get sound in. Don't get me wrong, I love Shure mics, they are virtually indestructable and have great sound, but with mics you usually get what you pay for.

These mics lack depth, fullness, and just plain volume. The also pick up alot of stage noise and bleed if you do not have a good noise gate setup. The only reason I would buy this set is as my very first mic set on a limited budget to satisfy amatuer recording needs. Their only saving grace is that they will not break! I know because I have thrown them across the stage in fury because of their sound!

Do yourself a favor if your serious about recording or live sound- get Shure's mic kit with the 3 SM57s and a Beta 52. It is the same price as the PG-6 package, but the sound is 10 times better! If you have the money, some good Sennheiser Mics or Audix Mics are the best for sound, especially if your recording, but these can top $600 for a set.

I've been recording and playing drums for 45 years so I've tried every mic under the sun. I ALWAYS went back to the Shure SM57 for Snare and toms and either an AKG D12, Sennheiser 451, or more recently the AKG D112 or Shure Beta52 on Kick. When I saw this kit I thought it looked great that the mics were compact and all self contained in a nice travel case. But what about the sound compared to my old stand-bys? So I tried them. WOW! I couldn't beleive how good they sounded. Maybe the SM57 would be a better Snare choice but these PG56 do a fine job on Snare and Toms even used them as nice vocal mics. Sound is between an SM57 and SM58. The PG52 reminds me so much of the Beta52 just not quite as much gain. The PG81 condensers are world quality. I did a session recording nylon string Guitar and they just glistened. For cymbals and overheads you'd have to spend a ton on Ribbon mics to outdo these. All the mics in this kit have that solid clean Shure sound and build quality. We used to joke that you could hammer nails with a 58 then go do a gig with it.These have that same feel..like they will take a beating and just keep working. Looks like Shure has done it again and created another standard for everyone else to chase. Forget all the other kits in this price range. Shure wins it hands down. To get a better sound you'd have to price out a Beta52, SM57 x3 and SM81x2. 3-4 times the cost but definately not 3-4 times the sound quality. JUST BUY THEM AND ENJOY!

ok i have never had any drum mics before. i wsas look ing at thisone thinking that it would be very. it was very good quality and i like them.you would need to change the snare mic because that is what i am going to do because of i cant get a very good soundf out of it. that bass mic is very good. i get a great sound out of it. the cymbal mic are very good too. my cymbals sound great out of them. the tom mic are good but i thought they would be better

overall i think that i was a good quality for the price.