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Wasn't particularly fond of 2 and 2 - sounded a bit boxy or choked. Sure others will prefer those though because we all hear it differently.
Be interesting to see which is which. With some tweaking you could probably get them all pretty close.
Edi: Oh yeah, the sim. Would guess 2 or 3 is the sim - maybe 2?
I’d guess no 1 is the speaker sim. It seems to have some air around it which the others don’t. I’m guessing the sim is possibly a multi mic IR with at least one room/ambient mic (possibly more even)
1- Senn E906
2- Suhr Reactive load & Neunaber iconoclast
3- Beyerdynamic m380
4- Audix i5
All mics 1-2 inches off the cloth.
My thoughts
The E906 would have more bass if right on the grille as it's a supercardiod. Interesting mids.
Iconoclast had lots of highs rolled off here to better match the mics, could be more cutting easily if needed. Very flexible and keeps a bit more attack than the mics.
The Beyer sounds nice and big in isolation but in a mix who knows, its traditional use is kick drums or bass, here it could do the job an AKG D20 or ribbon would do if you blended tracks.
Not sensitive to positioning at all, I guess due to it's huge capsule.
The Audix is the most neutral in this (it's a bright speaker) and many other cases and for that reason works well for acoustic guitar etc where you want more highs vs a 57 or for a fuller snare sound.
Unfortunately I didn't have time to listen before the answers were posted, but if I had I would either have picked 2 as the load (because it sounds wrong, and definitely different from the others) or if I was playing Devil's Advocate I might have guessed it was 4 because it sounds the best and has the most 'air' in it . But realistically, I think you can hear that it's 2.
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Though there is definitely a clipping issue with 2, which possibly explains why people seem to like it least. Something is being hit too hot