Sticks Of Fury
Senior Member
hello.
i hope this is the right thread on here to discuss this. i'm sorry if anybody else has already asked this question. i've read on the internet, in the past, that baker's 1960's cream tom tom sound, sounds like "cardboard boxes" and whatnot. why is this? i want to get to the bottom of this. to me, those sounds, sound like he's playing single headed toms, but i'm pretty sure that baker always played double headed toms back then, in the studio and live performances. so if it was always double headed toms, were his toms just not tuned right, or was it mediocre recording technology at the time, or both? maybe he had the top heads tuned too high, like jazz style. or was the top head tuned okay, but the bottom head not? i would really like to know. and you guys basically know everything there is to know about drumming(way more than i know). the rest of baker's drum kit sounded fine back then. his snare and bass drums sounded pretty solid. any input would be greatly appreciated. thank you to anybody who can help me out with this.
i hope this is the right thread on here to discuss this. i'm sorry if anybody else has already asked this question. i've read on the internet, in the past, that baker's 1960's cream tom tom sound, sounds like "cardboard boxes" and whatnot. why is this? i want to get to the bottom of this. to me, those sounds, sound like he's playing single headed toms, but i'm pretty sure that baker always played double headed toms back then, in the studio and live performances. so if it was always double headed toms, were his toms just not tuned right, or was it mediocre recording technology at the time, or both? maybe he had the top heads tuned too high, like jazz style. or was the top head tuned okay, but the bottom head not? i would really like to know. and you guys basically know everything there is to know about drumming(way more than i know). the rest of baker's drum kit sounded fine back then. his snare and bass drums sounded pretty solid. any input would be greatly appreciated. thank you to anybody who can help me out with this.