Recording at machine shop

quick question.. I noticed at the end of the video (not your band but the houses v hurricanes) that the drummer wasnt playing the kick drum.
Is that common for machine? Leaving out the kick entirely to be replaced later?
 
quick question.. I noticed at the end of the video (not your band but the houses v hurricanes) that the drummer wasnt playing the kick drum.
Is that common for machine? Leaving out the kick entirely to be replaced later?

Pretty sure its common for him. Saw Chris Adler of LoG recording this way with Machine.
 
BTW the preamps on gtr are EMI TG2, sound awesome.

Been tracking overdubs and leads with the bogner and orange this week, sounding nice and evil, using a holy grail reverb, dl4 and a few other bits and pieces.

The la610 sounds nice and fat on CJs voice, which is very thick already. Pad engaged, gain at +5, shelf at 4.5k +1.5 and 70hz -1.5, distressor QAQR shaving off about 10db on peaks heading in, pretty standard fare. Tracking in the room on cans, so will can direct our vocalist and converse face to face with him inbetween takes.
 
quick question.. I noticed at the end of the video (not your band but the houses v hurricanes) that the drummer wasnt playing the kick drum.
Is that common for machine? Leaving out the kick entirely to be replaced later?

Check the first 2 minutes, quite interesting.
The drummer had to play drums seperate from cymbals.

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Pretty cool. Iirc qotsa did that on a record? Hvh didn't track drums like that afaik. Make sense though now that I think about the stadium drum sound 18v had on that record.
 
quick question.. I noticed at the end of the video (not your band but the houses v hurricanes) that the drummer wasnt playing the kick drum.
Is that common for machine? Leaving out the kick entirely to be replaced later?

i don't know if the kick gets "replaced" later, but i do know that he's been known to track the kick separately from the rest of the kit - makes sense, as it would make editing a shitload easier without all the kick bleed
 
qotsa tracked skins and cymbals separately on songs for the deaf - not sure about any of their other stuff though
 
i don't know if the kick gets "replaced" later, but i do know that he's been known to track the kick separately from the rest of the kit - makes sense, as it would make editing a shitload easier without all the kick bleed

Makes total sense, though I'm sure it really screws up a lot of drummers! Unless of course, they just use dampen pads on everything played by the hands. Seems a lot of times drummers have a hard time doing kick work when their hands arent doing anything.
 
bryan: we used to record my drummer's fast doublebass parts after the rest of the song back when we had no computerediting and he'd just play "next to the pedals" on the floor during the "no kicks"-part. It worked well. Then again he was a very good drummer.