speaking of drums...

[daemon097]

Hi guys,
i've noticed that my recorded toms don't have the heaviness as many recorded albums out there, and i'm wondering what I can do to make them sound heavier/better. I've been using sm57's to mic the toms, and using the antares mic modeler to simulate the sennheiser 421's (and it sounds pretty damn accurate....)

So...after recording, I go through all the tom tracks and cut out all the parts where the toms aren't played... I also run each tom thru a eq and eq accordingly...but...it's just not as brutal as I would like.

any suggestions?

thanks in advance!!

 

[Kevin Kitchel]

Make sure the toms sound how you want them in the room first! Tune em! Get new heads!

 

[Andy Sneap]

new heads and correct tuning is a must, I tend to go for clear emperor heads, tune the bottom head slightly higher (get a tama tension watch to help). I've just bought some sennheiser 609's which I'm liking alot on the toms.

 

[daemon097]

well... I can guarantee you the toms have new heads and are tuned.

As for how they sound in the room, basically, the room sounds pretty dead. There's no real natural reverb happening...which I figure is fine for our purposes...

 

[TheSweetener]

Instead of triggering, I often normalize every tomhit, which is a lot of work.
If you do that every hit is equally powerful (of course only if the toms sound great) without having the typical RATATATA trigger problem with fast rolls.
Thanks.

 

[Kevin Kitchel]

Drums are over rated anyway. Thats what I'm telling all the bands I'm recording these days. Most of em don't go for it, but it really cuts down on the editing time!

 

[TheSweetener]

Guitars and bass too!