Pitching down high tuned toms?

[buhzie2]

I was watching this studio footage of Suicide Silence from their previous album, and at one point in the video, it seems like when they recorded drums, they tuned the toms REALLY high, like, timbale high, but then just pitched them down in the mix. At one point, you even hear the drummer playing the toms and they are definitely tuned up really high.


http://www.machineshopproductions.org/episode2iFrame.html


Any thoughts, opinions, comments? I've never heard of anyone doing this before...

 

[mva801]

Google chrome did not like that link^^^^

As far as your question, 99.999% of people will tune toms how they want them to sound (high or low) rather than tune it wrong to begin with and mess with it later. That would be like singing a whole song a step too high, then autotuning down. Why not just do shit right in the first place?

Can't think of any benefits of doing it that way.

 

[Fandus]

The only thing I can think of doing that it to kill boomy resonance and possibly make a snappier transient to make sound replacing easier in the mix. But may as well just use triggers.

 

[A Midnight Requiem]

Higher tuned toms are also easier to play because you get more bounce back when you strike. Maybe part of the reason was to help the drummer get the best performance, and he figured he would be replacing with samples anyway.

 

[heshian46]

Higher tuned toms are also easier to play because you get more bounce back when you strike. Maybe part of the reason was to help the drummer get the best performance, and he figured he would be replacing with samples anyway.

^This.

A lot of metal drummers tune their drums much higher than they want them to sound in order to get a better bounce out of them.

 

[voidar]

Yes, like a heavily damped kick drum tuned brighter.