Andy
Honorary Member
Ever wonder where drum samples come from & how they're recorded?
Just back from recording a selection of Guru snares for the "Best of British" download samples collection at "Blast" studios in Newcastle upon Tyne. For an old fart like me, I found the process both interesting & much more involved than expected. Each drum has to be recorded in 9 different disciplines across about 15 dynamics x 9 samples of each discipline. That makes it possibly the most laborious & tedious recording session ever, yet you still have to really concentrate on consistency. There's also a ton of mic placement to be done, as the customer will have the option to select from any or all of the mic variations & placements on offer. There's a lot more mic's used than you can see on these clips.
I was asked to play a little jam piece at the start of each drum recording. These aren't published (thank goodness!), they're just for establishing a dynamic realism benchmark for the sample audition process. I was asked to generate a range of dynamics & textures from each drum.
There's no performance intended on these clips so please don't hang me on the detail. Anyhow, two clips, one of a 13" x 7" walnut stave with segmented hoops. This has a thin wall shell without rerings. Second clip is my personal 14" x 5" walnut & ash segmented snare with ash segmented hoops. The audio you're hearing is "Youtubeised" but otherwise unprocessed straight from my Zoom Q3 recorder. The studio capture versions are obviously much much better than these. I just put the recorder on a nearby amp so you guys could appreciate a bit of the context.
Play in 1080HD for reasonable quality (for Youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3eoOweyRIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bfB_9u7eBc
Live clip of the 14" x 5" walnut/ash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ezZb34SC4&hd=1
Just back from recording a selection of Guru snares for the "Best of British" download samples collection at "Blast" studios in Newcastle upon Tyne. For an old fart like me, I found the process both interesting & much more involved than expected. Each drum has to be recorded in 9 different disciplines across about 15 dynamics x 9 samples of each discipline. That makes it possibly the most laborious & tedious recording session ever, yet you still have to really concentrate on consistency. There's also a ton of mic placement to be done, as the customer will have the option to select from any or all of the mic variations & placements on offer. There's a lot more mic's used than you can see on these clips.
I was asked to play a little jam piece at the start of each drum recording. These aren't published (thank goodness!), they're just for establishing a dynamic realism benchmark for the sample audition process. I was asked to generate a range of dynamics & textures from each drum.
There's no performance intended on these clips so please don't hang me on the detail. Anyhow, two clips, one of a 13" x 7" walnut stave with segmented hoops. This has a thin wall shell without rerings. Second clip is my personal 14" x 5" walnut & ash segmented snare with ash segmented hoops. The audio you're hearing is "Youtubeised" but otherwise unprocessed straight from my Zoom Q3 recorder. The studio capture versions are obviously much much better than these. I just put the recorder on a nearby amp so you guys could appreciate a bit of the context.
Play in 1080HD for reasonable quality (for Youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3eoOweyRIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bfB_9u7eBc
Live clip of the 14" x 5" walnut/ash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ezZb34SC4&hd=1
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