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Post by drumrec on Apr 5, 2024 7:36:22 GMT -6
I only have 500 series for preamp. So it must be the top 2 of the 500 series. You can't get enough of CAPI. Especially VP28. A lot of preamp for the money is the AML EZ1073.
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Post by drumrec on Mar 25, 2024 13:22:15 GMT -6
I will say a mic I haven't tried yet "Stager SR-1A". Have heard so many good things about it and can imagine that it could be the "one mic show" that would do the job perfectly. Have placed an order for the "SR-1A" from Stager which will arrive shortly. I have high expectations of that microphone!
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Post by drumrec on Nov 18, 2023 8:03:47 GMT -6
I belong to the schizophrenic club that runs both matched and traditional. Was schooled with traditional (probably because I'm so damn old, haha). But like to change grips depending on what style you play. But as you described drumsound when the music gets a little louder and 2-4 an has to cut through a little higher, then the match grip becomes more comfortable. James Gadson is king. Love what he's doing with Bill Withers. So tasty groove. Been sitting and trying to mix a little motown sound on my drums for a while in the studio and get that hang between triplets and straight in the playing. Incredibly fun and you can't get enough of it. Here I played with an old Ludwig kit from the 60s and played with the UA Hitsville Chamber. Was only OH monomic and some bd amb. Very simple! MOTOWN SOUND
Now I have to go and listen to some more J.Gadson clips on the tube That feels GREAT!!! Are you playing a Rogers snare? YesBox, if you come across a "Rogers Dynasonic" in great condition Tony, buy it!! Some snare stand out and bring a smile every time you play them. This Rogers Dynasonic is one of them
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Post by drumrec on Nov 15, 2023 17:04:33 GMT -6
Yeah; that's nutty! I was watching him closely and noticed a couple of things: - he uses proper grip and wrist (not arm) technique. He must have had proper training. - his uses a matched grip in the first video but a traditional grip in the Bill Evans video. He's definitely one of those cats the blurs the line of matched and traditional. A lot of cats in that era started traditional, but as amps got louder and PAs didn't develop at the same rate, the switched to get a stronger backbeat. There are also guys like Danny Seraphine from Chicago who still switch back and fourth. I still use traditional for certain things, though my technique isn't developed with traditional. I belong to the schizophrenic club that runs both matched and traditional. Was schooled with traditional (probably because I'm so damn old, haha). But like to change grips depending on what style you play. But as you described drumsound when the music gets a little louder and 2-4 an has to cut through a little higher, then the match grip becomes more comfortable. James Gadson is king. Love what he's doing with Bill Withers. So tasty groove. Been sitting and trying to mix a little motown sound on my drums for a while in the studio and get that hang between triplets and straight in the playing. Incredibly fun and you can't get enough of it. Here I played with an old Ludwig kit from the 60s and played with the UA Hitsville Chamber. Was only OH monomic and some bd amb. Very simple! MOTOWN SOUND
Now I have to go and listen to some more J.Gadson clips on the tube
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Post by drumrec on Nov 2, 2023 12:23:35 GMT -6
The new ez1084-500 ..... a 500 series version of a classic Class A equalizer ..... with Carnhill inductors, input and output transformers. Colin - AML Audio Maintenance Limited How interesting. Saw that you can get them build, assembled and tested. Interested in 3 channels of ez1084 or 6 ez1073pre for one lunchbox. Colin, do you know how it is with the customs fee to Sweden when the UK is not with the EU anymore. I understand that the EU and UK have a trade and cooperation agreement which means that if you have a declaration of origin for your goods, you can avoid paying customs duty. Could be wrong? KR Håkan
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Post by drumrec on May 19, 2023 15:19:17 GMT -6
Haha, wonderful!! Dear Buddy is clearly a trained drummer and this was not the first studio session! Comes perfectly in on the last chord and has a nice fade of 16th note drum roll. Charming
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Post by drumrec on Apr 15, 2023 11:27:46 GMT -6
I gotta be honest...I'm not getting dramatic results. Maybe the stuff I'm testing it on is already well set up and phase aligned. I've just been trying to align Snare, Snare BTM, HH, TOMS and OH...and maybe I hear a difference? Even when I just go down to just aligning top and bottom snare, it seems like it loses bottom end when it's ON. I know it's really for single multi miked instruments - but they're selling it like you can slap it on a drum kit and it's smart enough to figure everything out. Hasn't been my experience. It does do good things for like a stereo miked Acoustic - but I can do that with V1. It does no magic if the files are well in phase. When I mix other people's files and sometimes there are a lot of drum tracks that are completely out of phase. Then AA2 comes in handy and does its magic. The drums in my studio I have the mics in the same place mostly and have moved them around carefully for the phase. So I don't get much use out of AA2 when I'm recording myself, but a time saver for other people's jobs when it's completely out of phase. So I assume you've got good drums in phase that you're testing on.
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Post by drumrec on Apr 15, 2023 11:07:18 GMT -6
Can only say to those who work in LUNA that Auto Align 2 cannot save its settings after you have saved and then opened again!
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Post by drumrec on Apr 14, 2023 9:27:25 GMT -6
Kind've murky with the Pro Tools instructions. Read the manual. Put it on all tracks? AUX's? Drum replacement AUX's? Maybe it's all audio tracks. I've had two crashes so far. ah damn! stable on studio one ... just audio tracks not aux/bus what I did was just start with the drums, a/b listen, than add the plugin to other groups like guitars and do again than i did bass amp/di etc got really good results, so not sure if maybe the aux tracks are mucking it up? Have the AL2 on individual tracks and bus and it works perfectly. (Sending my L-R OH to a stereo bus. Likewise with my Coles). Working in LUNA!
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Post by drumrec on Apr 14, 2023 7:43:24 GMT -6
How are you guys using it on drums? You wouldn’t want to time align OH or Room. Exactly, you want to maintain the distance and the air. So I group the drums. for example. Group 1: BD, BD Amb, Sub kick. . Group 2: SD, SD under, SD shell. Group: 3 OH,OH mono, Coles Back, (dirty mic). Group: 4 close room, far room etc. Depends on what you do.
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Post by drumrec on Apr 14, 2023 4:50:19 GMT -6
I tested it last night on a session , it grouped each section automatically (drums,bass,guitar etc) and lined it all up with one click and the results are kinda shocking the change in the drums with about 10 mics was flooring. like 30% or more difference... this plugin is probably the plug of the decade tbh lol crazy Exactly, I don't understand how they have succeeded with such precision. Plugs like this make work a little more fun 🤗
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Post by drumrec on Apr 14, 2023 4:43:32 GMT -6
Getting this room just got auto align 2 for post and it's insane. If this is like that it'll be amazing. Yep, it's absolutely insane. Trying it now and I'm totally floored. This one is a game changer. You have a 14-day demo. Just pressed the upgrade button!
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Post by drumrec on Mar 10, 2023 16:25:36 GMT -6
I've gotta be honest. I'm REALLY impressed by this so far. I've worked in some of the bigger studios here in LA that have vintage Neve desks and this thing does something that none of my 8 million other 1073 plugins can do. Try pushing the mic pre saturation on something that's a bit clean or "digital" sounding and it blows it up like a balloon, but without sounding harsh or weird. The EQ sounds excellent too, especially the low and high shelves. Exactly, I totally agree! I have spoken warmly about the BB N105 saturation. Uses instead of compressor and eq. Just a little hi&low cut. Pushing the mic pre saturation carefully. Tested the demo on the new BB N73 and found the saturation to be identical to the BB B105. As I use the BB N105 almost exclusively for the saturation, I will probably skip the new N73. But they are doing good things Kit team 👍
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Post by drumrec on Feb 24, 2023 5:21:53 GMT -6
Also something that helps is the beater height. I think I heard Stanton Moore talking about this and adopted it, but he alluded to never having the beater hit the middle of the drum head. So on a 20” let it hit higher than middle, on a 24” let it hit below the middle. Makes a good bit of difference but also changes the feel of the drum so YMMV Interesting! When I use "non-portet" bd, I have to change the bass drum technique when I play with "heal down" to get the tone with the "non-portet" bd. Usually I'm a "heal up" player, but it might help as Stanton M recommended. Will try! Thanks for sharing jeremygillespie Could not resist to post this. At the time of writing, I'm doing the opposite of the thread title 😂
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Post by drumrec on Feb 23, 2023 4:56:16 GMT -6
This made me go watch that performance again. Really might have been the best CMA performance ever. My wife has worked at CMA for decades so I’ve been to a bunch - and I’ve never thought there was another one that transfixed the crowd like that. JT at the end was as good as it gets. Damn, this kind of thing inspires and reminds me why I'm still working in the music business. Soooo Good 🙌🎶🙌
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Post by drumrec on Feb 18, 2023 6:54:56 GMT -6
Was curious and had to check out the Apollo x spec on latency. sub-2ms latency.
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Post by drumrec on Feb 17, 2023 15:36:48 GMT -6
Did you miss the topic of the thread? UA has gone native. Not all the way - yet - but once it starts I see no reason for them to continue with DSP development, which will be redundant. Why compete with themselves? They have unequivocally stated that they are staying with DSP. The obvious reason to use DSP is for low latency during tracking. It's not redundant. Exactly, It is one of the big selling points with low latency and it cannot be done without dsp integration on the Apollo interface. So I don't think they'll let go of dsp. Instead, find the best of both worlds with native/dsp.
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Post by drumrec on Feb 15, 2023 11:20:23 GMT -6
Like what I've seen from the Luna 1.4 update
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Post by drumrec on Feb 15, 2023 11:17:15 GMT -6
I jumped on the UAD train day 1 with a UAD-1 card and over the years have bought almost every single plug and have 4 Apollo X interfaces. In other words, invested a fortune in the UA eco system. This development with the Native plugin and the powerful computers, it was inevitable for UA not to go that way. I think jeremygillespie has wise words in what he says and agree 110%. A small sidenote for those who work in Luna, there has been a new update of Luna to 1.4 and there are really smart solutions for Apollo/Luna users between native vs DSP plugin when mixing and recording. Worth checking out.
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Post by drumrec on Jan 4, 2023 11:41:15 GMT -6
I'm the dude that loves the sound when I drive the preamp a little, so you get that subtle body and mojo. Now I record 80% of the time drums (I like when it rounds off the transients a bit). Built a 10 channel pad for just that purpose. But at the same time, I have an open mind for what the digital world can offer in 2023. If you want to look at plugins that I think sound good 4 this purpose (now I'm not comparing hardware/software), I think "KIT BB N105 V2" sounds great when you drive the mic /pre. Worth checking out.
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Post by drumrec on Jan 3, 2023 8:01:10 GMT -6
I'm just trying to decide if the C-Axe is worth it. I've decided to pick up Hitsville Chambers as one of the two. I just need to decide on the other one. I took it on the second turn of "pick 2" and it came in handy earlier today when I sat and played some bass and had a buzz sound around 50Hz. Connected the C-Axe and "boom". Gone and I could move on. Love it!
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Post by drumrec on Dec 21, 2022 16:36:24 GMT -6
Sorry for my late response. Here are some bars and samples from the drum kit I have set up now for the band I'm recording. That's not quite the sound from your reference track, @johnkenn For that sound I have to change some drums first. Not so deep snare and other bd etc. I can come back after the Christmas weekend when I have a little more free time. I just love the sound that Jay Joyce has created on "heart like a truck". So I want to achieve that. He has the same mindset of recording bands in the same room, I do the same! Now there have been a lot of good tips on awesome samples in this thread, so these might be redundant. But I'm sending them here anyway and maybe someone will use them or get an idea from them. Always more fun to record drums in some kind of musical context. It's pretty boring to only hear your drums against a click. So I took the song and removed the original drums with iZotop "music rabalance" and recorded my drums a few bars (the music doesn't have the best sound quality after "music rebalance", but u have something). So there is a file with the song "Dry Kit RGO-Tutti" and then one just with drums " "Dry Kit RGO-Drums". Here is the link and I take the opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope that the world is a little kinder next year! Here comes the drums. LINK: we.tl/t-kl8sXNLMiKKR Håkan
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Post by drumrec on Dec 15, 2022 17:28:47 GMT -6
Will fix some Cartooooon Smack 2morrow 🙂
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Post by drumrec on Dec 15, 2022 16:34:01 GMT -6
I have such a tuned dry drum kit set up now in the studio. I can record some bars with that sound if you want tomorrow?
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Post by drumrec on Dec 13, 2022 16:16:47 GMT -6
Now maybe I'll get basted by all you nice gears guro. Maybe a bit like swearing in church. Here we go...I did the same thing with my TT CL1B when it came to the UA platform. The plug sounded so great. So the small difference made me sell my hardware (now you can throw eggs and tomatoes at me 😂).
I exclusively use up to 90% UA plugs when mixing (just love them). What I wanted to say about the room. After having built such acoustics properly, the need for compressors has become less due to the even balance in the room. Hence I brought up that piece.
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