"I want my snare to sound like THAT!"....

PacifRick

Senior Member
We've all seen various threads with someone asking how to make their snare, toms kick, cymbals, etc. sound like (insert name)'s snare/toms/etc on the so and so album. There are always responses such as; tons of effects, EQ, compression, tuning, and so forth, but I've never seen someone respond with...."this is how!"

Well finally....this is how!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU-6tRJSdks

----->Plus all of the other 9 episodes in the series (these are not my videos nor am I taking credit for them)

To protect myself, I am not a fan of overly effected or overproduced drums sounds. I much prefer natural sounding kits, although certain genres have catered to specific sounds. But when I stumbled upon this, I was locked in and spent an hour and a half watching the whole series. I have a home studio and have created some very satisfactory results. The guy in the video does a great job of explaining things and seems to take a lot of interest in what he is doing.

To the amateur, this will explain the tedious work that is put into a studio to create a lot of the sounds you will here on any given album. You probably won't get sounds like this with a naked kit, although some might argue!

To the experienced drummer/studio guru, there is a lot of tidbits of knowledge that you might catch. I've never seen such an effort put into a tutorial, and given away for free.

I am not claiming that this guy makes the best sounds ever, but he does a great job of explaining the process that some might use to record drums.

So the next time I see someone ask how to make their drums sound like so and so's, I will probably refer them to these videos, then explain to get the right equipment, then encourage them to spend months or years learning about their new equipment, take classes, experiment, then learn to tune, then spend the necessary hours "producing" the sounds you have recorded.
 
You beauty! Just about to start venturing into recording in the next few months and know pretty much nothing about recording so this is incredibly helpful.

Thank you
 
mmh an sm57, need to get mine out and have a go
 
If you only own 1 mic,or 100,the SM 57 can do just about all of it,and you can still kick them around.....and they will work most all the time.

Steve B
 
I've used Shure SM-57's most of my life.

Kick 'em, dent 'em,
Beat em' to death, bend 'em...

And they just keep on tickin'...

GREAT drum mics, and SM-58's are indestructible vox mics. In the old days I would just throw down 2 or 3 '57's on the wooden raised stage around my Ludwig '67 Ludwig Champagne Sparkle drum kit (Didn't have the dough for mic stands) and just got incredible drum response. Just incredible. Still have 'em...still use 'em!

Presently I have the Audix 8 mic system...Great mics, along with my 12 ch Mackie mixer.

...and my old SM-57's?

You guessed it....Still use 'em and they're still kickin'...45 years later!

Stephen A.


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http://bluzelightning.webs.com/
http://www.myspace.com/tapoco
http://www.reverbnation.com/destroyer429
 
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Great stuff and pretty generous of him to share all the info.
 
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