using differnent snares in different songs

[brianhood]

I know of a few engineers that will use multiple snares on an album(sometimes a different snare on just about every song). Any of you guys do this? I know it's not much use in metal, but the band i'm recording now has some weirder/darker songs that i think a different snare would sound good on.

Ive even heard songs that will switch out snares on chorus or on certain sections.

 

[Lasse Lammert]

I'm doing that all the time.

 

[egan.]

If you have multiple good sounding snares available then go for it.

 

[zvish]

when you listen Lamb Of God - Wrath, studio stems carefully, you can easy hear different samples on breakdowns, and fast tempos, choruses etc... but maybe I am wrong, and this is only reverb automation stuff

 

[Moonlight_Seeker]

Maybe automating a delay could do the trick?

I mixed an album recently where the drummer plays on the snare "normally", but sometimes he does those army types of rolling snares, and I did use drumagog a lot because the recording was quite medium, but in those army parts it is the natural snare with the whole list of plug-ins that are nifty for snares and I think it sounds nice. What could have sucked is the transitions from 1 snare to the other. Besides that, I would tend to call it creativity.

 

[ze kink]

Instead of just different snares, Dir en grey's newest album Uroboros sounds like they've even used different drumkits. Could just be different tunings and mixes for different tracks, but it sounds really cool nevertheless.

 

[gabriel g.]

terry date did it alot on the deftones records ...
if it fits the songs, go for it

 

[BLUElightCory]

I like doing this. I use a Dunnett steel snare for faster/more complex songs, and a Ludwig Black Beauty for slower/simpler stuff. The Dunnett has TONS of attack and volume, and the Ludwig is all body and depth.