ecpietscheck
Senior Member
i muffle my snare...
i use a genera dry and hazy 300, the sound is bright, but has a ring in the end...
i use a genera dry and hazy 300, the sound is bright, but has a ring in the end...
The first time that I was in a studio way back in the 70's I played the House Studio kit with muted drums and tape on the pies. I said to myself, Never Again!
I now play my drums in a studio just as I play them live.
No Way Man!Oh heck, I just play the studio kits. The drum sound isn't up to me, it's up to whoever is paying for the session, usually the producer of whatever little tidbit of nonsense we're recording for some advertising agency. Great music, that stuff!
Unlike a lot of folks who have responded, I haven't found the need to muffle my snare drum, but the band I am in prefers that I use Remo's rings on the toms for a darker sound. Sometimes in larger venues I can get away with taking them off, but generally they like them on there. Don't get me wrong, the drums sound good either way, even when mic'ed up, but it is simply a matter of preference, and it's not just my ears I need to satisfy...
now thats a magic combination of words <3No Way Man!
Every kit that I own is something that I have put together just for me,
I have made it my own!
My cymbals and drums are a part of me. We are one.
Every one of my kits is different.
I admit, I do play some crazy kits!
I take inexpensive drums and I combine them with great sounding cymbals and good heads and tuning to create "My Sound"
That is me!
I will not let someone violate that by putting tape all over my drums and cymbals because a quick and easy plastic sounding recording can be made.
I don't want to play E-Kits that are nothing more than a computer that makes a sound when you hit a sensor.
I just can't like it! I just can't do that.
I am not interested in playing drums for money. I have made lots of money repairing cars and investing. I don't care about making drumming a career.
I play for personal enjoyment. I only have to please myself. You can't put a dollar value on that kind of satisfaction.
I want my drums and cymbals to sound like drums and cymbals.
Drums ring, cymbals sing! snare drums buzz! Bass drums go Boom!
Those are the sounds that make drums sound real to me.
I prefer to let the natural sounds of the drums and the cymbals shine through.
I am not interested in playing drums for money. I have made lots of money repairing cars and investing. I don't care about making drumming a career.
I play for personal enjoyment. I only have to please myself. You can't put a dollar value on that kind of satisfaction.
last week when I changed the clocks back I accidentally tuned my clock radio to a Pop station.Yeah, Bob, but you have to put a dollar value on having to play drums for money.
I rather miss having to play drums for money.
And I wish I could repair cars. Hell, I wish I could repair anything!
last week when I changed the clocks back I accidentally tuned my clock radio to a Pop station.
I couldn't believe the music that I woke up to the next morn.
It was so bland and phony! There were no real drum sounds in the music. There were hardly any guitar parts in the music.The music consisted mainly of vocals, crap guitar parts, and dubbed in electronic percussion sounds.
Is this the, "Music" that people listen to today?
It was horrible!
It sounded like someone took random loops from a computer program and they had a singer sing over them.
Thanks for the link Jay. I bookmarked it.For real music, I mean absolutely real no jive music, go here. It's happening right now. Roberto Gatto's doing it on the drums.