Hey everyone !
First and for all thank you for viewing my thread , i hope someone can help me ! .
I am used to playing heavy 24'x18' bassdrums barefooted , my heal up and burrying the beater
entirely into to the skin and leaving it there until the next stroke .
Recently , i purchased a drumkit mic setup and via a sequencer i record
my practices ..
Meanwhile i have bought a second drumkit ( premier black shadow ) with 22'x16 bassdrums ,
the first thing i noticed in trying to adapt to them was that i had to dig just a little less hard than i would with the 24's to be able to control them more easily .
Now , whats' been driving me mad is that one day i solo'd the bassdrums in my sequencer checking the sound i was achieving , and to much distress i had the famous
dig noise ( meaning that after every impact the beater still vibrates slightly on the head causing a kind of distorted sound in the impact frequencies )
Having put my 24's back and miced , i found i had the same problem , just less audible than with the 22's .
I have tried tuning harder / softer , plastic beater / felt , different pedals ( dw 5000 , camco ) displacing the mic ....
I am very reluctant in dropping my bassdrum technique as i am very happy with it ( endurance , speed , stability wise ).
I couldn't understand how all the professional drummers with the same technique on 22x16 kick drums don't have this problem ,
I know Vinnie Colaiuta is Vinnie Colaiuta , but playing on Frank's albums with a 22'x14' and using the same technique without this problem remains a mystery to me ?
Is there a soundengineering trick to disguise this sound ?
I would appreciate your advice and help on this matter !
Thank you all
First and for all thank you for viewing my thread , i hope someone can help me ! .
I am used to playing heavy 24'x18' bassdrums barefooted , my heal up and burrying the beater
entirely into to the skin and leaving it there until the next stroke .
Recently , i purchased a drumkit mic setup and via a sequencer i record
my practices ..
Meanwhile i have bought a second drumkit ( premier black shadow ) with 22'x16 bassdrums ,
the first thing i noticed in trying to adapt to them was that i had to dig just a little less hard than i would with the 24's to be able to control them more easily .
Now , whats' been driving me mad is that one day i solo'd the bassdrums in my sequencer checking the sound i was achieving , and to much distress i had the famous
dig noise ( meaning that after every impact the beater still vibrates slightly on the head causing a kind of distorted sound in the impact frequencies )
Having put my 24's back and miced , i found i had the same problem , just less audible than with the 22's .
I have tried tuning harder / softer , plastic beater / felt , different pedals ( dw 5000 , camco ) displacing the mic ....
I am very reluctant in dropping my bassdrum technique as i am very happy with it ( endurance , speed , stability wise ).
I couldn't understand how all the professional drummers with the same technique on 22x16 kick drums don't have this problem ,
I know Vinnie Colaiuta is Vinnie Colaiuta , but playing on Frank's albums with a 22'x14' and using the same technique without this problem remains a mystery to me ?
Is there a soundengineering trick to disguise this sound ?
I would appreciate your advice and help on this matter !
Thank you all