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I went into the studio with one idea in mind, but walked out with something else entirely...like pushing around a shopping cart with a wonky wheel.
Drums recorded with 1 kick mic, 1 snare mic, and 1 subkick (a 10" speaker going into a DI box).
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The drums sound so excellent! Fantastic composition. Peak wonk. Please explain how this subkick works? How would the drums sound without it?
God, your ability to flam is unreal. I know you've been practicing those flam passages but boy it has paid off. I need another drum lesson from you!
The amount of silence before the end of the track is perfect.
This sounds like the feeling of going to a lakeside picnic on a warm spring day, accidentally 2 hours after the picnic ended, but still having a nice time.
That chimey funky keyboard lick in the middle kills! Drums sound great... real simple. Like that sub-kick. Was not familiar with that recording technique. Very cool!
haha, thanks for giving it a listen
Sounds clean
thanks!
Love the drum sounds, nice work
thx and appreciate the listen!
The drums sound so excellent! Fantastic composition. Peak wonk. Please explain how this subkick works? How would the drums sound without it?
God, your ability to flam is unreal. I know you've been practicing those flam passages but boy it has paid off. I need another drum lesson from you!
The amount of silence before the end of the track is perfect.
This sounds like the feeling of going to a lakeside picnic on a warm spring day, accidentally 2 hours after the picnic ended, but still having a nice time.
Thanks! A subkick is just like a really specific, low frequency microphone. By wiring up a speaker as a microphone, you can exploit the resonant frequencies of that speaker, i.e. for big bass type speakers you end up recording big bass type sounds. But the downside is you can't really record much outside of that narrow frequency range (it's a bad microphone). However when mixed with a regular kick mic, you can dial in a very big kick drum sound. Without it, I think the drums would sound ok, but I would probably have to do more work to EQ the kick and to make things beefier. I have gotten fond of what the subkick does, but I always have to be really careful since you can easily over do it and just blow out the low end on the mix.
That chimey funky keyboard lick in the middle kills! Drums sound great... real simple. Like that sub-kick. Was not familiar with that recording technique. Very cool!
I'm glad you liked the chimey lick, it was a happy accident :-)
Loving this wonky trepidating groove. Amazed you could keep it so steady "and off the beat" live.
Quite cool indeed. That break begs to be sampled.
this has just got an amazing groove, great playing!
Digging the trrack
It's not a mistake, it's a happy little accident.
Loving this wonky trepidating groove. Amazed you could keep it so steady "and off the beat" live.
Quite cool indeed. That break begs to be sampled.
thanks ya'll
