Little Vid: Tracking Drums

[Philchef]

Yo!
We started drumtracking last weekend and our drummer made a short video...
Next week we continue with the guitars....

You can watch the vid here...
[ame]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=101066602[/ame]

 

[urinebath]

Excellent playing! I only wish there was available talent like this in Cleveland, OH, US.

 

[Morgan C]

Awesome drummer. All the drums look and sound really small though. Like the kick looks like 18". Do you do that to make it softer or something, then sample replace? The toms sound REALLY high pitched, the snare too but in a good way.

 

[Philchef]

Our Drummer has two main kits... one oldschool ludwig with big toms and a big bassdrum and the sonor delite like in this video... both are good kits...
But we really like the sound of the sonor, cause everything sounds extremely punchy and clear with the small toms/bass...
even the bassdrum sounds godlike in natura....

Same Drummer + same Drumkit in a full production:
http://www.myspace.com/jackslater666 (dysthymia)

 

[Morgan C]

Our Drummer has two main kits... one oldschool ludwig with big toms and a big bassdrum and the sonor delite like in this video... both are good kits...
But we really like the sound of the sonor, cause everything sounds extremely punchy and clear with the small toms/bass...
even the bassdrum sounds godlike in natura....

Same Drummer + same Drumkit in a full production:
http://www.myspace.com/jackslater666 (dysthymia)

Kick and snare sounds really good there (snare sounded great in the vid too). I'm a fan of tight poppy snares myself, and despite my snare being 14" its a freefloater so it can do that tuning with ease.
Still don't dig the toms in the mix though, way too high pitched imo. And not even small drums, its like that really choked, high tuning. I'd advise experimenting with lower tunings, with tuning that high you're really killing all the resonance of the drum.

 

[Philchef]

I really like those highpitched toms...
Our drummer is despite his young age of 22 quite experienced...
because of some contests he won he had drumlessons by some very impressive drummers (for example David Garibaldi (Tower of Power), Dom Famularo, Jost Nickel (Jan Delay/Disco No1. and so on) and on some workshops they told him that those high toms are pretty cool to get a clear tone which doesn't collide with the bassdrum.... thats the reason why he bought the sonor kit...

Here you can listen to the toms how they sound recoreded http://ul.to/cxm4st
Fortunately i don't have to do any mixingstuff... just made this fast "test" to get drumroughsound to track the guitars... (guitars incl. sound are shit )
(I've never mixed real drums)

 

[Morgan C]

Fair enough, I guess its mostly taste. What sizes are those toms?

I do urge you to just try tuning them lower. To me they sound like cardboard, and you're choking the resonance of really really nice toms (unless they're like 8", 10", 12", which I doubt, but even then they could be tuned lower). You'll never know if you never try it, you might much prefer it.

 

[Philchef]

okey.. will tell it our drumfucker... don't really know the sizes ... 8 10 14/16 maybe?
Tried to call him.... but maybe it's to late.. no reaction

 

[Philchef]

okey..

the answer is :

SONOR Delite -Birdseye- finish
[8" white sparkle, 10'' Amber, 14'' Azure]

 

[Tallicalad]

That's wicked, but... DON'T RECORD YOUR TOMS LIKE THAT, IT'S AN ABHORRENCE TO AUDIO ITSELF! Lol.

 

[darthjujuu]

i kinda liked the toms o_0

 

[Philchef]

dito

 

[Emdprodukt]

ein was-schlag war scheiße?

 

[AllanD]

The fact that the toms are higher make them stick out in the mix much better. Interesting.

 

[Erik Monsonis]

The fact that the toms are higher make them stick out in the mix much better. Interesting.

+1 Fucking loving them!

 

[Ionei]

I really enjoy those toms, especially for that style of music, works really well.
Great drummer too.

 

[Philchef]

ein was-schlag war scheiße?

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