Sound Hoops - A new way for miking drums

Description

A known problem with miking a drum set is the positioning of the various microphones in a way that they don’t interfere with the playing. For years click-on microphones were the best solution. (So far!)
A solution that didn’t satisfy drummer and neo-inventor Apostolos Zaios. As a metal drummer with years of stage and studio experience he saw that the state of the art miking just didn’t work. If you hit them really hard you didn’t just destroy the microphone, but possibly really expensive equipment. In addition to that, the drummer on stage is always back there behind a forest of microphone stands.
It was the time and accuracy that brought him to come up with a new solution to the old problem.
The microphone just had to disappear.
After some thinking and tests he simply integrated them in the rim of the drums, creating not only beautiful and easy to set up drums, but also a great sound experience.