BenOBrienSmith
Senior Member
This has always been a fun thing to do and is a very practical skill to have, particularly if you're working with producers/artists who are requesting tones based on reference tracks. It also makes for great practice with ear training and tuning.
Cody and I decided to put together an episode that overviews our methodology for recreating a certain sound and we pulled together three distinctly different snare tones from three recordings from different decades:
https://youtu.be/Nu2V_KlAppw
We chose "One Headlight" by the Wallflowers, "Vultures" by John Mayer (love Steve Jordan's deep snare sound on this track!), and "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson.
While we don't ever use EQ/compression/reverb on the drum sounds in this series, I did experiment a bit with some post production mixing later on (just for fun and again, more practice) and managed to get quite close (especially considering the fact that we were just using a C414 and an SM57 (we did have a D112 on the kick but that wasn't really contributing to the snare sound).
Anyone else experimented with this before?
Cody and I decided to put together an episode that overviews our methodology for recreating a certain sound and we pulled together three distinctly different snare tones from three recordings from different decades:
https://youtu.be/Nu2V_KlAppw
We chose "One Headlight" by the Wallflowers, "Vultures" by John Mayer (love Steve Jordan's deep snare sound on this track!), and "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson.
While we don't ever use EQ/compression/reverb on the drum sounds in this series, I did experiment a bit with some post production mixing later on (just for fun and again, more practice) and managed to get quite close (especially considering the fact that we were just using a C414 and an SM57 (we did have a D112 on the kick but that wasn't really contributing to the snare sound).
Anyone else experimented with this before?