About 'drum triggering'.

[Nitronium Blood]

This whole concept of 'lets just capture the drum pattern for the song and replace the sound later' seems a bit 'forged'. Although when I think about it, I am all in favour of 'Re-Amping' and triggering seems to be on the same plain.

I only really understood the concept of it say about half a year ago and frequently see the word 'trigger' get thrown about on music production forums such a this one.

How often nowdays do you think Triggering is used and how long ago could one speculate that it first started gaining prominance?

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

I don't know exactly, but I first heard that bands were using it live maybe back in 96 I think. I think around then is when it started being used by the bigger metal bands live. I'd bet that metal bands were among the first to use triggers because of the need for clarity over all the guitar distortion. My drummer didn't get triggers till maybe a year and a half ago.

By the way, I was very impressed with what i heard of the new Soilwork, it's a lot heavier than their last record.

 

[SickBoy]

This whole concept of 'lets just capture the drum pattern for the song and replace the sound later' seems a bit 'forged'.

It's a nice thing for those who have crappy drums...
I don't like overtriggered drums, something like Christy's drums puts a wide smile on my face!

 

[Nitronium Blood]

I don't know exactly, but I first heard that bands were using it live maybe back in 96 I think. I think around then is when it started being used by the bigger metal bands live. I'd bet that metal bands were among the first to use triggers because of the need for clarity over all the guitar distortion. My drummer didn't get triggers till maybe a year and a half ago.

By the way, I was very impressed with what i heard of the new Soilwork, it's a lot heavier than their last record.

I can understand using triggers in the studio.

But for live purposes?

 

[Razorjack]

Most of the live drummers I've worked with have used triggers on the kick, for the same reason a in the studio, clarity. It's much harder to keep a clear mix in many venues due to poor acoustics causing room resonances.

 

[Nitronium Blood]

Most of the live drummers I've worked with have used triggers on the kick, for the same reason a in the studio, clarity. It's much harder to keep a clear mix in many venues due to poor acoustics causing room resonances.

So the audio output for the samples would go straight to the PA of that venue?

 

[axeman720]

So the audio output for the samples would go straight to the PA of that venue?

yes, they would go straight to the board. also triggering is ALOT more popular then people realize, especially in modern mixes nowadays. almost all pop rock engineers and metal engineers use sound replacer in pro tools to at least even out sounds and dynamics in drums (particularly kick followed by snare) if not just to get a better sound overall. almost every big session you see has sound replacer running on just about every song.