This gonna sound crazy, but if you take the middle lug of the 3 you lowered and loosen it ALL the way, then take the opposite lug to that one and tighten half a turn, then skip one in both directions and tighten a full turn. Just try it. Leave the loose one with just enough tension not to rattle around.
Was curious about this, so I treated the inside of my old kit from 2005ish. Just did a few coats of teak oil which does t give a super hard finish but gives a soft luster. The sound improvement wasn’t immediately noticeable. Once it hardened it was much different. Would be interesting to try different types of coatings to see what differences make.
Bro needs to pay better attention. Start again at 3:59 for the explanation you missed. Pre-fader sends still have the channel's serial processing on them... room mics don't include such processing, so a realistic room simulation should lack that as well. So you gotta duplicate the tracks and then process them differently to disguise the fact that they are sourced from close mics (filter out extremes of the spectrum, so they have more of the midrange quality that room mics would have).
I searched on this coz it was mentioned by Eric Clapton, as he was invited by George Harrison to play the lead guitar in the recording of his song 'my guitar gently weeps' in September 6,1968. Accordingly the recording company used ADT (I don't know why they did this? ) Probably because John Lennon was absent in the recording.
Not so much tuning but more just randomly tightening two skins up haphazardly that will " do for 90% of the time". I knew its just pomp and ceremony when guys use measuring tools and different tightening sequences and leaving a couple of pegs loose etc etc, its all just unnecessary showboating.
Very good and helpful explanation, many thanks for sharing this video and your experience. Your drumsound is so good and natural that I can listen to the pure drums for hours.
I don't like a hole on the front head. It just kills the sound of the drum. I also play with a 24" drum and I like the boom sound it gets and yes I am a rock drummer. Now for recording that's a different matter.I usually go with a smaller drum.
Nothing special... Midas M32R built in preamps, no processing, just gain then to ProTools via USB. I have a bunch of vintage outboard preamps, but haven't been using them for YT content so far. That will likely change soon as I will be wiring up a small system for my YT rack, but nothing special for this video.
Great video Joel!!! Just watched the bass drum tuning video today for the second or third time and watching this one again as well. The drum sounds you are recording sound great. My kick and snare sound pretty good when recorded but still struggling a bit with toms for some reason. I guess I'll have to catch the tom tuning and recording videos when they come out! I do have a question though on this video: When you recorded the drums for this video did you do any processing going into Pro Tools such as EQ and/or compression? From watching several other videos it seams that's what a lot of engineers are doing. I'm guessing you didn't since you didn't mention mic pre or signal chain. Still a great video, drums sound great, and I appreciate your willingness to show us what you did in terms of processing/mixing!!! Thanks!!!
Thank you for your kind remarks! Actually, for this video I didn't use any processing going into protools (and I didn't even use any of my drool-worthy vintage preamps either). For the YT videos I've been using the stock preamps in my Midas M32R mixer, USB into protools... no processing. Just gain and into PT. I have several vintage Neves and APIs, a pair of nice tube pies that I built, and, of course, my own Rascal Audio Two-V and Two-R preamps, but I've had those in storage for the last year or so after taking my outboard racks apart and selling much of it (I closed my commercial studio in 2015 and with a few exceptions haven't used most of the gear since). There is a long story about how I wound up buying a Midas and using that as my main interface, but that is another story for another time. It was meant to be a place holder, but I have enjoyed its convenience and the results I get with it so much that I don't feel compelled to replace it just yet. I believe the magic of production is in the abilities and ears of the person doing the engineering anyway rather than any particular gear (though great gear does certainly provide great results as well as speed workflow). I bought a new, smaller patchbay recently and will be putting together a smaller version of my preamp rack to use with my Midas and will be back to using several of those wonderful preamps soon (will probably make a video outlining the setup too!). But no, no processing or esoteric preamps when I tracked this stuff! Cheers!
Hello, I just found your channel and I got to say this video you making this snare drum for your friend is absolutely awesome you're a great friend with that said I can't help but ask if you would consider wanting to make another one. I actually have a 1980s imperial star Eight piece kit I've had since I was 13 I have the imperial star metal snare but always wanted one just like what you made the metal snare I have has the badges and everything on it to have one to match. My kit would be insane. My kit is the Aspen white.
Great vid Joel! After a LOT of years of sub harmonic testing, I NEVER use more than 1 source to originate the sub 100hz which goes for bass/drums etc. IF you want a shortcut...try a behringer boundary (cheap) with linear phase LP filter and you will get a SOLID bottom end that is not fighting any phase anywhere. Use the >100hz however you want to get it. Try it...totally gem
Whataburger cup? Does that mean you’re in Texas? I’m in Houston. Loving now BOTH of your channels after discovering your DrumdotPizza just two weeks ago and just now the recording one.
Hey Joel, I'd love to see your approach on tuning / micing smaller 22" kicks and also your approach to overheads mics. These drums sound amazing in this room
Dude! rad vid! I literally a week ago did this and recorded myself jamming some acoustic, I set up my iPad> which records in stereo, and my iPhone and lined them up and got a cool weird stereo spread, its was fun!
Hi, what would be a smart way to remove the low end of the kick from the overheads, without removing the low end of the snare? I was thinking maybe sidechain the lows of the overheads with the kick mic on a multiband compressor, but I’d be very interested to hear your suggestions. Thanks!
I am looking at buying a red ludwig acro ish one off according to the seller. I have never seen a red one or like yours black sparkle with internal muffler wow any info appreciated.
Hey. After trying to mix serious for six years, I've been a very subtle mixer and don't really get all the crazy. Some engineer that I sat in with recently said to get crazy. His curves were absolutely wild. I tried that and my tracks sounded terrible. You never want to go completely mad, unless there's a damn good reason for it. And you can break rules and do weird curves too. Discovered that. But like you said after you're looking at the waveform which does help, you still have to 'listen'.
