Serpents - live drums in studio w/video (layered kick)

[RandomAwesome]

Hey guys,

Here's a video of one of the songs we did recently. Everything is live, no samples or layering on anything besides the kick. guitar is just pre-pro.

Oktava 012s for L&R overheads
D2s for toms, D4 for floor
D6 for kick
i5 for snare top
sm7b for snare bottom
sm58 for room (lame, i know, haha)
sm57 for the ride

I'm pretty happy with the drum sounds, but I'm curious to get some feedback.

 

[PeterPaul760]

Glad dusty is out of HDMR. I got out real quick, real faggoty band. Drums sound sick though, Tom's are awesome, snare is awesome too. But dusty is a damn consistent player, definitely a solid player. What are you running for pre's?

 

[RandomAwesome]

Yeah, the dude is crazy good! I'm just running it straight into my presonus firestudio 26x26 and a MPAII for a couple of the channels... the room and the bottom snare mic I believe.

 

[Morgan C]

Sounds too sampled (trollface.jpg).

Killer work. Not a huge fan of the snare, it sounds quite muffled and choked. The rest sounds great, awesome drummer.

 

[PeterPaul760]

Too sampled?

How do you like that MPAII? Inexpensive but I hear good things.

 

[RandomAwesome]

Haha, I think he was being sarcastic

great pre-amp for the money, no doubt. I plan to toss some telefunken tubes in it soon.

 

[PeterPaul760]

Haha, my iPhone didn't load the troll face. Lol

I've been thinking about buying it to try it. I might go thru with it

 

[Armorial]

Who did the first Serpents little Ep sampler thingy?

Btw dustys a fucking good drummer. Actually excited for RF's new shit.

Kick fitted the style perfectly, not sure about the snare though..

 

[RandomAwesome]

I believe it was a DIY project with friends.

 

[Sam Bottner]

Not really into this music that much, but man, awesome drummer. I actually like the snare too and the rest just sounds amazing. Nice work!

 

[RandomAwesome]

Thanks Sam! Yeah, I'm pretty happy with how the snare sits - definitely raw, but it suits their sound. Plus, we did 9 songs in like 4 hours, so we didn't have a ton of time for tuning or tweaking. That, and new heads always sound better.

 

[Charles J]

dude. this is fucking SICK! what kind of snare was he using? the nuanced ping and ring it has when he hits it at a certain velocity and/or certain spot gives me a fucking HARD ON. Did you automate the room mic on those parts or anything?

godly fucking sound. i seriously love it. LOADS of vibe.

one more, how big is your room you track in? is it like a warehouse kind of thing?

 

[AllanD]

This sounds pretty awesome. +2 to the room question, I thought you recorded in your garage?

 

[RandomAwesome]

Thanks Sig! Yeah, I feel you on the snare boner, hahaha. I'm gonna text Dusty and get back with you on what kind of snare it was.

Yeah, I still record in my garage. I just love the way the cement floor gives me a real lively feeling. I think it's like 20'x18'x10'or11'

No automation on anything, but I do compress and eq the shit out of my room mic to give the room a bigger sound. A little bit of reverb to push it out, too.

 

[RandomAwesome]

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