Tag Archives: Drums
Fun Drum Tip
Posted in Recording, Uncategorized, Vintage Gear | Tagged Drums, Recording, Tape Machine, tips, Tricks |I have a small collection of old reel to reel machines in my studio that don’t get much use. There are only a couple that are fully functional, but there is a way to get some good use out of pretty much all of them (and you don’t need tape!). Here is the one I used for this post:
All you do, is send a stereo signal from your computer to the machine, then use the stereo outs on the machine to run back into your computer. In this example, I sent a stereo drum buss into it. Next turn up the input gain on the machine until the meter starts clipping. That’s it! Here are two audio files, one with the “dry” drums, and one with the drums clipping through the machine.
Thanks for reading,
Jeremy
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Use Your Ears Pt. 2
Posted in Recording | Tagged Channel, Drums, mic, MKL 2500, Octava, placements, Recording, Strip, Trident |I decided to go ahead and upload the samples that I was talking about in the previous post. To recap, I used two Octava MKL 2500′s and placed them here:
and here:
This second mic was rotated to make the different sounds you will hear in the clip. The first four bars you hear are with the mic facing forward (like the picture), the next four are with the mic turned at a 90 degree angle away from the kick, and the third is with the mic turned 180 degrees away from the snare. You can hear how the sound of the snare changes with each turn. I ran both mics through a Trident channel strip, and gave a hefty boost at 50 hz and 4k, and filtered out everything above 12k. Compression was also used.
Again, I was going for a particular “sound” and it wouldn’t be suitable for a lot of applications. But for what I’m working on, it works quite well! Thanks for reading.
Jeremy
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Another Flea Market Win!
Posted in Vintage Gear | Tagged Drums, Majestic, vintage |I have several different drum sets in my studio, and they serve very different purposes. But the kit I've used the most over the last few years, has been a Japanese kit from the 60's. The company is called Majestic, and I've become kind of obsessed with collecting their drums. It's a little bit silly to become a collector of something that is technically a "knock-off" brand, but I think they're amazing. My good friend Phillip texted me the other night and said he found a Majestic kick drum at a flea market for $25, so I ran over and grabbed it:
Sounds amazing. Just gotta get it cleaned up a little bit. And that's what I intend to do today. Thanks for reading.
Jeremy
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