Got some ideas on recording kick drum that I didn't cover in my article?  Tell us about it!

Well, I meant D4, but the D6 is also a good kick drum mic.  The D6 has a wildly exaggerated frequency response curve.  Hard to say if it will sound good with a particular drum.  I'm not a fan of Audix mics in general, but some people like them and get good results from them, so they're worth mentioning.

I had the same experience with the D-6. I think it'll work on cirtain situations but it's defenitelly hit or miss. One mic that has another very characteristic sound

is the Sennheiser e-602 but unlike the D-6 it seems to work (at least for me) in almost every context I've used it. The sound is big in the low end and good attack but not the exaggerated click og the D-6. It's not a natural sounding mic but it for pop and rock it always seems to work.

I use the Sennheiser e602 inside the Kick...about 2-4 inches back off the batter head, off-center but angled toward the beater.
I get a big fat Kick with lots of low-end THUMP...but it never gets muddy.

When I mix that in with the M/S overhead pair...I can get many different flavors just by moving the Kick mic fader up/down in the mix...

Yeah...I've thought about the Yamaha Sub-Kick...but I'm not hurting for low-end THUMP with my current configuration.

And since I have an M/S overhead pair...I jusr blend in the e602 track with the stereo Kit tracks as needed, and I can go from a lighter/distant sounding Kick drum to a huge, fat, THUMPING Kick drum just by pushing the e602 fader up/down in the mix.

Oh...you can't edit/delet yet...I asked the same thing!

I think the next Forum software upgrade will add some more functionality...

I liked the article.  The one question I had after reading that you used the front-of-kit mic alone on a track was whether an M/S pair would work well in that role.  You'd definitely get more room sound, but using that post-matrix stereo track as your "parallel compression" mix might work very well.

I only have an electronic lit in my home studio, so I have no way to test this.  One day . . .