Mark_S
Silver Member
I've been experimenting with recording lately, and I'm having trouble getting a good bass drum sound. I think it's the sound to begin with, not any actual recording issues. When I turn off my snare wires, it sure shows how bad my bass drum actually sounds! It's weird how the sympathetic buzz from the snares seem to make every drum sound different..
But anyway - so far we've tried my Premier XPK bass drum (22") with an EMAD. Next I'm going to try my Sonor S-Class Pro 20" bass drum.
My thoughts are to buy: a GMAD, Aquarian Superkick, and Remo Powerstroke 3 so I can try them all on the Sonor (I have 2 Sonor bass drums so it's not like the heads will go to waste). And then I can try them all and see what sounds I can get.
I'm after a punchy low end rock sounding bass drum because its rock I'm recording. The XPK sounded a bit flabby and more mid-range than bass. I tried both high and low tuning on both batter and resonant heads (the resonant head is ported). I just couldn't get a good sound out of it.
Maybe I need a 2 ply head, not sure.
We are trying to get it as good as possible before we start piling on the EQ and compression. We've got a pretty good room and great mics/preamps and the rest of the kit sounds great in there. It's just that kick!
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
But anyway - so far we've tried my Premier XPK bass drum (22") with an EMAD. Next I'm going to try my Sonor S-Class Pro 20" bass drum.
My thoughts are to buy: a GMAD, Aquarian Superkick, and Remo Powerstroke 3 so I can try them all on the Sonor (I have 2 Sonor bass drums so it's not like the heads will go to waste). And then I can try them all and see what sounds I can get.
I'm after a punchy low end rock sounding bass drum because its rock I'm recording. The XPK sounded a bit flabby and more mid-range than bass. I tried both high and low tuning on both batter and resonant heads (the resonant head is ported). I just couldn't get a good sound out of it.
Maybe I need a 2 ply head, not sure.
We are trying to get it as good as possible before we start piling on the EQ and compression. We've got a pretty good room and great mics/preamps and the rest of the kit sounds great in there. It's just that kick!
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.