How to get that smashed drum sound?

[HCL]

Like here:



I can get totally usable drum sounds but they don't sound as punchy as this. Any tips?

 

[FarBeyondMetal]

To me that sounds like super compressed rooms and overheads with none of the original close mics, all samples. I could be wrong.

 

[LiberaScientia]

Yeah, that ^

Ridiculously smashed parallel compression helps a shit ton as well for this sort of sound.

On another note, my band are supporting these guys on the 9th of next month, and that video was shot about a minute's walk from my house

 

[Christian WUFU]

Kick 10, Snare 12a lol
Like the others said, there's hardly any of the original snare, toms etc left. They may have just programmed the shells and recorded the OHs/rooms live. Other than that, just lots of compression and clipping

 

[TheUnknown]

I agree with what's been said.

I have a question if I may... I recently discovered something I'm having an issue with. I always send the entire kit to a parallel compression bus that I smashed the shit out of and blend back in, for whatever reason on a recent project I'm working on, muted the parallel compression buss and noticed it was doing this weird almost phase cancelling muffling effect. still not really sure what's going on but after spending way too long to figure it out getting massively frustrated I believe what's causing it is the overhead track.

any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated as its driving me batshit crazy...

I apologize if I shouldn't have posted this hear.

 

[Harley Barley]

there really isnt' any smashing going on of anything on those drums that i can hear.

 

[LiberaScientia]

That's because what's being smashed aren't the elements that are right up in your face like the snare or the kick, it's the stuff in the back that glues it together, like the room track, or the parallel comp track, and the overheads

 

[xFkx]

yeah, probably running the drum bus in parallel through a 1176 in all butons with the input cranked will do the trick

 

[Gar23]

yeah, probably running the drum bus in parallel through a 1176 in all butons with the input cranked will do the trick

Is there a plug-in that would be comparable to the 1176? The "reverse look ahead" sounds compelling but I don't have two grand for a new piece of hardware.

 

[Kohugaly]

Is there a plug-in that would be comparable to the 1176? The "reverse look ahead" sounds compelling but I don't have two grand for a new piece of hardware.

try stillwell rocket.

 

[Trevoire520]

For serious? There's like at least a dozen modelled 1176 plugins. Google.

 

[LiberaScientia]

Yep, CLA-76 is a good starting point for a decent 1176 plugin, I feel.

 

[meanmrmustad]

I think you'd get a better result if you actually smashed the drums while recording...big ass sticks

 

[RedDog]

IME, for smashed drum sounds, you smash them.

 

[Harley Barley]

1176 all buttons in attack slowest release fastest if you've got the CLA-76 try blue stripe. espescially on snare

 

[crillemannen]

Well what people said.. I can't hear any smashing going on, just slate samples, no real snare kick whatsoever. I personally don't like the sound at all.

 

[B36arin]

I personally don't like the sound at all.

Agreed. Really boring.

 

[GearMan2point0]

transx, parallel compression, Room mic technique, multiband compression.....there's just soooo many ways! TOO many ways!