Any drummers/drum gear nerds in here?

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Bad.Seed

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I know this is a guitar forum, but all the drum forums either seem defunct or full of jazz weirdos.

I finally got my 16 channel interface set up on my kit today and did a little recording test with some recently acquired microphones.
This is all raw and unprocessed. No gating/editing either. Just wanted to see if the room recorded well and I'm honestly happy with the results.

Any other drum gear nerds about? If not so much drum gear, drum recording gear? Lol



Gear is as follows:
Pdp Concept Maple Drum Kit
Mapex Atomizer 14x6.5 Aluminum snare
Zildjian Quick Beat 14 HH
Zildjian 18 K Session Crash
Sabian 19 HHX Evolution Crash
Zildjian Z3 Big Bell 21 Ride
Zildjian K 19 Custom Hybrid China

recording gear:
Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 Gen 3
Presonus Digimax 8 channel preamps
Lauten LS208 Dynamic on Snare
Lewitt MTP 440 DM on Snare Bottom
Audix D2 on Rack Tom
Audix D4 on Floor Tom
Lewitt 640 Rex on kick
Austrian Audio OC18 on overheads
sE Electronics VR1 Voodoo Ribbons on close rooms
Lauten Audio LA 220 FET condensors on far rooms
 
most all my clips are real drums. my setup is:

Gretsch Catalina Ash
Oriollo Bell Brass 5x14 snare
14" A custom projection hihats
18" Paiste Alpha med crash
20" A custom crash
20" Paiste sig ride
17" sabian chad smith china
12" wuhan china

TLM102 over heads
Unidyne 57 snare top
Audix i5 bottom
Audix D2, D4 D6 on toms and kick
MXL v67 room mic

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heres a snipet of my buddy playing my kit


https://app.box.com/embed/s/87zii15jziq6yy818w6yjddb8wiw9eb8
 
Everyone look at this guy over eerr, he thinks he's Vinnie Paul or somethin!!
 
RaceU4her said:
most all my clips are real drums. my setup is:

Gretsch Catalina Ash
Oriollo Bell Brass 5x14 snare
14" A custom projection hihats
18" Paiste Alpha med crash
20" A custom crash
20" Paiste sig ride
17" sabian chad smith china
12" wuhan china

TLM102 over heads
Unidyne 57 snare top
Audix i5 bottom
Audix D2, D4 D6 on toms and kick
MXL v67 room mic

g80TQNV.jpg




heres a snipet of my buddy playing my kit


https://app.box.com/embed/s/87zii15jziq6yy818w6yjddb8wiw9eb8
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Fuck you’re buddy, get me over there.
Are you sure this “buddy” of yours wasn’t “Bishop” from the movie Aliens?
Meaning A BUCKET OF BOLTS, f’n virtual drum
alarm clock speaker shit.
 
Dino 939 said:
Fuck you’re buddy, get me over there.
Are you sure this “buddy” of yours wasn’t “Bishop” from the movie Aliens?
Meaning A BUCKET OF BOLTS, f’n virtual drum
alarm clock speaker shit.
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My man, they should do studies on your brain. Wild shit rolling around up there.
 
japetus said:
Everyone look at this guy over eerr, he thinks he's Vinnie Paul or somethin!!
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Btw, that’s not Big Vinnie,
-that’s f’n Fergie burnin’ down a fat Tom-Tom!!
What does this guy think he’s got moves like Slash?
I wonder if Fergie has a hunky poster of Racer
tapped on her bedroom wall?
EXACTLY.
LMFAO man…it never ends.
-the peanut gallery from the leader of the
In School Suspension All Stars lives on!!
(me)
 
Also a drum nerd, just converting back to acoustic after trying the e drum thing for a bit. Hated it.

Anyway, this is a safe place, lets talk drums! Room is important but if you can cut down on reflections, you can get a very good usable sound without recording it in the huge rooms SD3 would have you believe are the best. Half the time i was turning the room down on those SD3 kits anyways. Seemed too fake and too perfect.

Btw, how do you like the PDP kit? I was thinking of grabbing one. Have a Tama birch superstar right now.
 
Drum tech/recordist here. have tracked more drummers than I can remember at this point. your video sounds fine with what you have in your arsenal Kyle. I'm a lifelong metal drummer that specializes in old school metal drum tracking. my claim to fame is (for what it's worth) that I shared a few moments swapping recording methods with the late great Vinnie Paul (A very generous man, I might add) I'm an outboard gear guy so, I only use computers as recorders. no plug in here! Ha. I think I may have more snare drums than you have amps though. :p The Klauth
 
Klauth said:
Drum tech/recordist here. have tracked more drummers than I can remember at this point. your video sounds fine with what you have in your arsenal Kyle. I'm a lifelong metal drummer that specializes in old school metal drum tracking. my claim to fame is (for what it's worth) that I shared a few moments swapping recording methods with the late great Vinnie Paul (A very generous man, I might add) I'm an outboard gear guy so, I only use computers as recorders. no plug in here! Ha. I think I may have more snare drums than you have amps though. :p The Klauth
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what's your recording chain / mixing like? I'm trying to be more OTB with my outboard gear and console and doing the same. Reaching only for a plugin when I don't have the analog equivalent that can do the job.
 
I dabble in recording. For snare I've been using a CAD TSM411 over the SM57. It sounds a little better (to me), has better rejection, and places better due to being shorter. My go to kick drum mic has been the Audio-Technica ATM250DE dual element mic. It had a condenser and a dynamic mic in phase and the two combine to get a good punch up close. I got the Audix D2/D4 on toms, and a SM81 the hats or ride. For OH, I just picked up the sE 4400a stereo pair, and I'm really liking them. They are modeled after the AKG 414, but with a blended top end between the versions. It's not too dark, and not too washy or sharp. They really get the whole kit well. I also use the sE Electronics Voodoo VR1s as room mics lately.
 
I have 6 - 24 RU racks full of outboard that I take to sessions. I prefer to just track and leave the mixing up to the mixers. however, When I do mix, its on an API Legacy. I have a huge mic collection as well. situation dictates with drummer, kit used and room.
 
Ok, snares are dope and all, but I'm going to need to see more outboard gear.
 


This is my channel where I show my personal collection of snares and tear them down, give my opinions and show modifications I do. I plan on starting a second season this summer, continuing where I left off.
 
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