Collective questions for Mr. Sneap -thread
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Andy, do you always use Beat Detective in your works (at least to set to the grid the performance)or, if the drummer is very good, you use the performance without edit it?
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Andy, I know you are a busy guy but, any plans to update www.andysneap.com? I would LOVE to see more pictures of your studio!!! 
Andy Sneap
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Andy Sneap
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Andy, I know you are a busy guy but, any plans to update www.andysneap.com? I would LOVE to see more pictures of your studio!!!
I actually just managed to get the rooms fully tidied and organized before I came away. I've been in California for the best part of four months since October with 70000 air miles clocked up traveling back and forth so the web site hasn't been priority. I'll be home by the end of May so I will try and get to it.
That's cool. I'd like to see the studio tour section gotten around to whenever you have time, that would be cool
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I don't really have any technical questions for you. But I was curious about some of the logistical stuff.
Do you like spending so much time away from home? If you were able to secure more work in the US with some bigger named artists, would you, or would you consider relocating to the US?
Do you have family, girlfriend/wife at home riding your ass for being away so long?
PS: "Location: at home"
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Andy Sneap
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I don't really have any technical questions for you. But I was curious about some of the logistical stuff.
Do you like spending so much time away from home? If you were able to secure more work in the US with some bigger named artists, would you, or would you consider relocating to the US?
Do you have family, girlfriend/wife at home riding your ass for being away so long?
PS: "Location: at home"
I have to say this time away, although a long time, has been pretty easy going. Decent place to live, hire car, sensible hours etc. I don't really like doing the hotel thing for weeks on end. I don't feel any need to live in the US when a flight is £300 and I have studio and home in the uk although I do like the US alot. No wife and family, just girlfriend who is cool and understands.
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When traveling to the US like you have been, what are the essentials that you bring with you in terms of studio/work gear (and subsequently what do you rent/get from the US for the sessions)?
I noticed in the Exodus pics the monitors you said came from GC, but was the rest of the mobile rig your own? I also saw on the last Chimaira DVD that you tracked drums in a studio, so that probably didn't require much for your to bring, either.
I noticed in the Exodus pics the monitors you said came from GC, but was the rest of the mobile rig your own? I also saw on the last Chimaira DVD that you tracked drums in a studio, so that probably didn't require much for your to bring, either.
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I don't usually take much at all, couple of mic's maybe, tubescreamer and gate, tension watch for the kit etc. I have my laptop and mbox for any editing after hours but besides that usually theres enough at the studio.
Ah, thanks...And that answers another question I would have followed with, which was whether or not you do any editing after hours on these kinds of projects.
Andy,
two questions and thanks again for answering!
I'm curious to know if you are still using drumagog for your sample replacement, and if so, do you find yourself still going in and checking the phase or timing of the printed samples as compared to the original track? No matter how I set drumagog, even if I use triggers or just use drumagog on the original track, I still find that sometimes some hits are off, and sometimes it's only a few hits and sometimes it seems it prints worse.
Now if you don't, do you have a process that you go through to make sure that the hits are going to be printed correctly before you bounce the track down? I've tried almost every setting and I still haven't found one that works perfect, and even with a macro setting i use to go through all the hits which is about as fast as you can do it...it still is incredibly boring and time consuming. But when I do, everything seems locked in much better and I can use multiple samples with better results.
Regarding beat detective, do you always make your edit points from the close mics/triggers then apply to the rest of the kit to keep the phase intact? Alot of the music you work with has fast double kicks and I wonder that since you filter out alot of the kit and snare out of the overheads if you ever just edit the kicks separately, then edit the rest of the kit on another pass to keep all of those cuts out of the other tracks(mainly the cymbals). If I don't do that sometimes I look at all of the cuts and I freak myself out....and I keep thinking I hear bad edits that really aren't there...haha.
two questions and thanks again for answering!
I'm curious to know if you are still using drumagog for your sample replacement, and if so, do you find yourself still going in and checking the phase or timing of the printed samples as compared to the original track? No matter how I set drumagog, even if I use triggers or just use drumagog on the original track, I still find that sometimes some hits are off, and sometimes it's only a few hits and sometimes it seems it prints worse.
Now if you don't, do you have a process that you go through to make sure that the hits are going to be printed correctly before you bounce the track down? I've tried almost every setting and I still haven't found one that works perfect, and even with a macro setting i use to go through all the hits which is about as fast as you can do it...it still is incredibly boring and time consuming. But when I do, everything seems locked in much better and I can use multiple samples with better results.
Regarding beat detective, do you always make your edit points from the close mics/triggers then apply to the rest of the kit to keep the phase intact? Alot of the music you work with has fast double kicks and I wonder that since you filter out alot of the kit and snare out of the overheads if you ever just edit the kicks separately, then edit the rest of the kit on another pass to keep all of those cuts out of the other tracks(mainly the cymbals). If I don't do that sometimes I look at all of the cuts and I freak myself out....and I keep thinking I hear bad edits that really aren't there...haha.
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Im using Drum Rehab all the time now, tho it is still buggy.
I find it loses its place occasionally and works alot better without a tempo map.
If you have problems with it, import the kick and snare into a new session and trigger at 120bpm.
Re beat detective, I group the kit on normal beats, on fast double kick stuff I usually group kicks and the top of the kit separately so you are not chopping cymbals up into 16th etc and you can get snare and kicks tight.
I find it loses its place occasionally and works alot better without a tempo map.
If you have problems with it, import the kick and snare into a new session and trigger at 120bpm.
Re beat detective, I group the kit on normal beats, on fast double kick stuff I usually group kicks and the top of the kit separately so you are not chopping cymbals up into 16th etc and you can get snare and kicks tight.
