YT: Alex Rudinger of Thread Signal/Ordinance drumming to a track I mixed!

[Mattayus]

He's not in the band who's track this is, but they were a client of mine earlier this year and are friends of his. I mixed/mastered their EP, and then was approached by the band and Alex to take the original drums out and replace them with the drums that were tracked in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-gcmUqW84uc

All natural, pretty much raw besides simple EQ and compression in the usual places. Kick is replaced.

The band who's track it is are called Midnight Realm, and you can check out the EP here - http://midnightrealm.bandcamp.com/

Enjoy!

 

[Mattayus]

Woops, typo in the title, ThreaT Signal*

 

[JonWormwood]

not sure if it's still being processed but the audio slowly goes out of time with the video.

Sounds awesome.

 

[mva801]

I think it sounds a little bit dead. Could use some room/ Verb?

 

[Charles J]

I think it sounds a little bit dead. Could use some room/ Verb?

+1

great CLOSE MIC'D drum tones but it's defo lacking the LIFE and BLOOM that a stereo pair of room mics in whatever configuration you like...if the room was NOT cpatured during tracking, I usually will do a 'faux room mics' as I like to call them... (basically duplicating, filtering and compressing the OH's a bit differently (the usual epic amounts of gain reduction) so they're pretty bandwidth limited and sending them to a room verb.

SNR sounds amazing....love the natural sound of it.

i've been experimenting with SNR + Toms being 100% natural because it just adds such a cool vibe to the extreme 'modern tech/deathcore metal sounds.

Very cool juxtaposition, IMO....

 

[Mattayus]

Yeah I was thinking about doing some artificial room dynamics, with an impulse or something to that effect (Cubase RoomWorks or REverence), but he's playing in such a small room it would have sounded a bit out of place I think. It's not meant to sound like an album mix, literally just his drums as they are "in the room" over the track. So the dryness makes sense in the context of this video I think, but in any other scenario - eww.