If you blow into them, or put them right in front of a port, you may have a problem. I have a couple pairs of popular budget SDCs, Oktava Mk12s and the Chinese CAD GL1200 (pretty much the same as the popular MXL 603s). I'm getting a pair of low end ribbons for this purpose and when they come, I'll post recordings showing the difference with condensers. Especially for more acoustic sounding recordings. That combined with a natural high end roll off but a lot of transparency means that the recording sounds more like we hear it. The large internal surface means that the proximity effect reaches out further. I realize that your recording is already "in the can" but one thing that seems to be gaining popularity is using ribbon mics for overheads. The closer you get the more bass you get (called the proximity effect) which means that distant sources tend to lose bottom end. Some of this is due to the distance from the mic. Plus cymbals typically sound brighter and drier on recordings than they do in real life. That coupled with the full bandwidth (no attenuated highs from tape) nature of digital recording, often results in bright cymbals. Conventional wisdom is to use condenser mics as overheads.
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