reamping snare ?!?!?!

[beyond dead]

hey doods, I was looking for an article to show a client on the drum! website and came across an article about reamping snare drums ?!?!
http://www.drummagazine.com/pluggedin/post/reamping-the-snare/

im just reading it now, and I thought some of you may get a kick out of it.

keep in mind I will not be trying this haha

peace

 

[SocialNumb]

:zombie:

 

[guitarded88]

^

 

[::XeS::]

I remember Jason Suecof spoke about the same thing in an interview

 

[guitarguru777]

I'm not getting it, I don't see how this could actually work.

You would pick up more of the "speaker" then the actual snare cause of how loud you have to turn it up to get it to actually strike the snare. At least that's what I would think.

 

[barricade]

Please someone give it a try and post some clips!

 

[allplaydead]

 

[darthjujuu]

i've also heard of this. just sounds like some wacko story that fullsail kids giggle about before they end up nurses assistants and bank tellers.

 

[ze kink]

Meh.

Reamping drums through a Marshall battery amp & fuzz pedal though...

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I feel on some level this could work.

But it's still stupid.

 

[JeffTD]

You're supposed to take the speaker out of the enclosure and put it on the drum head, and it does work. It gives you a usable bottom snare mic, since suddenly the snares are moving like they should be, but that's really it.

 

[kass]

i've also heard of this. just sounds like some wacko story that fullsail kids giggle about before they end up nurses assistants and bank tellers.

 

[BLUElightCory]

It works, it helps bring out some of the "thud" and "piff" (ha ha) of the snare. Useful for adding some beef and bottom snare to the overall snare sound, though I'm not sure how well it'd work for metal/hard rock applications. It's a useful trick to know.

 

[slashvanyoung]

I expected something like this before I clicked the link:

 

[arv_foh]

i've also heard of this. just sounds like some wacko story that fullsail kids giggle about before they end up nurses assistants and bank tellers.

 

[-Noodles-]

Reason #2 to have a 12" or 10" speaker laying about,..

(Reason #1 is for a subkick).

 

[Pedro Teixeira]

This could actually be useful to get a nice room sound, for example, instead of using your room mic in the mix for the whole drums, or even sidechain and gate it with the snare, we all know gates arent perfect. So if you did this with the same snare and put on a LDC in a nice room you could actually get an extra track of just the snare room for example

 

[Morgan C]

This could actually be useful to get a nice room sound, for example, instead of using your room mic in the mix for the whole drums, or even sidechain and gate it with the snare, we all know gates arent perfect. So if you did this with the same snare and put on a LDC in a nice room you could actually get an extra track of just the snare room for example

Doesn't work, its the same as putting a room/reverb impulse on it. Because what you get from the top (or even top+bottom) snare mics is not the whole sound of the snare. You're much better off making samples of the room mic and triggering it from the close snare mic.

 

[SimonTaddio_Qc]

...so did anyone actually gave it a try and recorded it?

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I have everything to try this but a snare.