The Prince LinnDrum Sound with Acoustic Drums 

So we’re at a certain point where we use instruments to recreate the sound of machines that tried to recreate the sound of real instruments. Ace!

"the hard way" like getting your hands on an LM-1 is easy

I can’t believe you left out the specs of the tone wallet sitting on top of the snare. Were there a couple 20’s inside? 2 or 3 maxed out credit cards? I’m amazed at how good this sounded. That’s strong work.

back in my day we use REAL Linn drums. kids nowadays have it easy *grump

That's a pretty big sound from only 3 instruments. Well done.

Prince would've just stared at the drums for a while, until they realised how to sound. (ooh, can we do Prince facts like Chuck Norris facts? Prince once short-circuited his wah-wah pedal, because it actually started crying.)

She really captured the feel with her playing. The engineering was great too.

Maybe next time make the video longer than five minutes and actually explain *how* you got the sounds you got. There are some really cool ideas here but "We added a ton of processing" doesn't tell us a whole lot about what you actually did in post to get the sound!

The Revolution’s drum tone that Prince and Bobby Z created was definitely signature to those songs. This was a damn spot ON recreation! Excellent work!

Close? N'all, that was a LOT more accurate to the way Prince had his Linn Drum patterns sound. Very accurate, dead-on. If Prince Rogers Nelson heard what y'all did and saw how y'all did it, he would've been proud.

My first drum recordings ever were done with headphones as microphones. I put one right under the snare and hats, man it sounded terrible but I had never been so excited. Cool to see a throwback to headphone recordings, great vid!

Roger Linn: "[Prince] was very important to my success. He didn’t just select a stock beat and press ‘play,’ but rather used it in unusual and creative ways, from detuning the drums to no longer sound like drums to the unusual beats he programmed to how he featured it in the mix" - No surprise, Prince was a genius with electronic instruments, too.

That was awesome, you 2 did a fantastic job ... please do more Prince, he has so much great stuff to choose from, not only drums.

This was beyond nerdiliciously amazing. Please put this out as a drum kit!

For anyone wanting the linn sound, check out the Junn JM-1 VST, it’s completely free and sounds great

I'd like to say again what a brilliant job has been done here too catch the vibe of the Linn LM1. It's a pity though that samples and loops weren't made from this, I would've gladly paid for Linn-like drum sounds with the life and variation of being performed by a real drummer on an acoustic drum kit!

This is really cool! Not what I was expecting, because I wanted to see vintage drum machines, but I love the technical details of how you guys did this. It would be so cool to see you do a technical walk-through of how to get that gated reverb sound acoustically as well.

cool stuff... never heard anyone describe a vistalite having a "warm" attack lol.

I’ve had several LinnDrums, this was a lot of fun 😊

A lot of people call the Linn LM-1 "Linndrum" and is not real, the two are made by Roger Linn but they are different machines guys. The drum sound of Prince that you're trying to recreate is from the Linn LM-1 Drum Computer not the Linndrum wich is the successor of the LM-1.

The Linn LM-1 was heard in the song "Kiss" (1986).

Thanks Reverb. You got it close as hell. Do more like this we are loving it.

loved the headphone trick! almost sounds like a phone mic

Wish I could have heard what the drums sounded like acoustically without all the processing.

This is really cool. I think it would be interesting to try to get those sounds using purely acoustic treatment on the drums, as if you were a drummer in a low-budget Prince cover band showing up at a dive bar where the best you can hope for is to get miked up.

it’s like watching magicians create their own version of a famous magic trick and then exposing their secret of their trick.

I see Prince & Linndrum. I click.

Sounds really good, well done! Love the wallet on the snare touch!

“Kiss” sounds totally unlike anything on the radio in the 80’s and unlike any of Prince’s other songs. A lot of this is thanks to producer/engineer David Z. From this Sound on Sound article, he explains how they got the really cool rhythm guitar sound: “Anyway, starting with a LinnDrum, I programmed the beat and began experimenting. Taking a hi-hat from the drum machine, I ran it through a delay unit and switched between input and output and in the middle. That created a very funky rhythm. Then I took an acoustic guitar, played these open chords and gated that to the hi-hat trigger. The result was a really unique rhythm that was unbelievably funky but also impossible to actually play... I'm sure that sound influenced the fabulous new Daft Punk song 'Get Lucky', because it uses the same trick, with the guitar gated to some sort of rhythm and sequencer.”

man this snare sounds awesome. give us the samples wav quality guuys!!!

How about getting that "ka-ka" sound in Let's Go Crazy (among other Prince songs)? Supposedly Prince achieved that by tuning the rimshot sound all the way down.

Holy shit release these as a sample pack

I don’t know about the kick but snare was impressive.

Best acoustic drum kit I've ever heard!

Super cool, still plenty of Linn drum samples for free on the internet. But, it’s fun and why not.

I bought a Linndrum ($2500) the year it came out, used it for many years and many upgrades. I think you’ve nailed it. Sold it in the 00s ($175) to a Christian group, it quit working couple years later, and the group didn’t want to pay Forat $350 to repair it! It’s still in the bandleader’s attic.

but real talk that is a legendary kick/snare sound, good ear and creativity putting this together!

Makes me wish I never quit music class. Excellent sound!

Yeah but what about recreating the "nook nook" sound found throughout 1999 and Purple Rain eras

First of all being someone who knew PRINCE personally and called by him to come jam at Paisley Park. Also after his untimely demise was asked by his band The Revolution to play his parts on guitar when we did the 3 historic concerts at First Avenue in his memory back in 2016 Im the guy in the white coat (link here: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tUCnfkwkAic.html) . I can say from being on the inside watching his drummer BOBBY Z program the sounds, you guys NAILED it !!! The trick is that AMS gated reverb, which was actually THE SAME reverb used on the track. Just a little history on the song, bass player BrownMark aka Mark Brown was given the song by Prince for his group he discovered called Mazarati newly signed to Prince's Paisley Park Record label. Mark and Bobby Z's brother engineer David Z worked together to make that song for the group but it came out so funky PRINCE TOOK it back for himself...the original version of "KISS" was written by Prince on a twangy acoustic guitar

That snare is godly

That was awesome. So many techniques in one short vid. Thank you.

if i had a drum set up like this i would never leave the throne!

That sounds awesome. Very creative. Well done!

This actually sounds hella cool.

Cool vid! More of these please. Sometimes things get too High Brow and it’s nice to get back to basics of when we couldn’t afford nice gear or had to make due with what we have to find the sounds we want.

No one can program a drum machine like P.. he would run the LM1 through his Boss effects petals and stomp boxes to enhance the sound the way he wanted

Well done!!! I never thought to use headphones on a snare, cool idea; I will try it out in the future. I have used a set of Audio-Technica head phones as mics taped close to the lower side of a bridge on a jumbo acoustic guitar. It sounds a bit like two single coil pickups set out of phase; this set up allows a stereo input from the front and back of the guitar, which fills in the signal a little bit.

Ok, I loved this a little too much. Great work!

Excellent! No criticism here, but the kick verb on the record sounds like a Yamaha Rev7 to me. It had a super gritty/sandy sound sound that is so unique.

Utterly amazing

You guys are frickin geniuses wow! that sounded close to the original.

Amazingly close to the original. You should contact the Native Instruments people, proceed and make a virtual instrument of it for Kontakt!

Sounds identical to the Linndrum to me, very impressive. Considering the Linndrum used sampling from an acoustic drum to begin with, it makes sense you could recreate the sound

Very close! And that is cool I didn't know they used delay to get the 16th-note embelishments from the hi hat

You guys nailed it.

THAT IS VERY CLOSE TO THE LYNN-DRUM,,,IN FACT IF I CLOSE MY EYES I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT IT WAS A LYNN-DRUM PLAYING,,,,,INCREDIBLE !!!!!!!

Really bang on. Very impressive!!!

That was a fun little trip 🙏

Well this was fun. Really enjoyed it!

Sounds pretty spot-on.

Sounds pretty damn good. Guess I know what I'm doing this weekend then.

Fantastic sound.

Spot on!

Sounds really awesome

Great video. Still waiting for someone with to much spare time to do an acoustic recreation of the 909 kick! =)

You should attempt the classic Prince pitched down Linn Rimshot with this kit on a separate snare

I love this so much.

thanks Reverb comment section for reminding me to never scroll down

Sounds like a Linn drum to me. Great job 👍 guys.

Amazing sound and love the recording techniques!

Wow. Great job recreating this. I love seeing stuff like this.. plus: J-Burd! haha, awesome to see her getting recognized. i used to follow her on Insta long time ago. Boom, here she is, smashin a Kiss replica!

Excellent stuff. I love this company and the people who work there seem so nice!

So good!

That was awesome, please make more these!

INCREDIBLE!!!! Kudos aplenty!!!

It sounds great!

Sound amazing

Thanks for the video! All I want to know is when is Barringer going to make a clone of the Linndrum?? Don't make me beg!

Very close. Great job.

Amazing!

This was badass

Fantastic work!!!

Loved it.I,ve been working on SignO the Times with my double pedal.I'd like to hear your version.

Incredible!! I’ll like to see a re-create of the hi-hat part of The Time’s ‘777-9311’ (another Prince Linn Drum program).

Close enough. Good job guys

Sounds great; thanks : D

amazing!

This setup sound way much better than the Lindrum sound. Very good job guys !

Its really really...great...thanks a lot...i learned alot!

Wow i really enjoyed this very interesting as well as satisfying great work..

Sounds better and more lively.good job!

So dope. Great job

It’s totally ironic - and absolutely killer - to be in the studio, using acoustic drums to re-create the sample sound of drums whose sound was created from standardized acoustic drums. What I’m curious about is whether or not it’s possible to acoustically duplicate the defined sidestick sound Prince utilized extensively on *1999* and *Purple Rain.*

Actually it sounds pretty damm close to it , Awesome! I love it!

Sounds awesome, I love it!

really cool . I love these vids.

Killer!! Great job guys!!

To be honnest it's sound even better and more beefy, than the original one.

awesome- would love to see you do up 1999 drums