spitonself
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 |  Subject: Photos from the Drum rec session - Hybrid Drums  Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:43 am | |
| Hybrid Drums - Drum Setup Photos from the next album session
Since Kekal's 3rd album "The Painful Experience" (2001), we've been using so-called Hybrid Drums: that is a mix of realtime performance and mathematical/matrix programming. The realtime performances were done on MIDI drumpads, and the matrix programming was done in the computer (through a mutitrack software). But all the sounds of the drums are taken from real, recorded drums that we recorded/sampled before.
These are the photos of the drum recording session for the next Kekal album. This time I played the real drums myself, I mean I recorded real acoustic drums using simple drumkit, not just hitting the electronic drumpads.. But still it will be the hybrid-drumming, because some of the drum performance I chopped them and made them as hundreds of loops (in separate tracks) to be re-arranged later on, while the other ones I recorded as samples one hit by one hit.. On some songs, I only use the performance on kick and snares while the hats and cymbals were programmed and taken from samples I recorded.. The other songs I recorded only the hi-hat and cymbals while using the pre-recorded drum loops from a hip-hop soundbank borrowed from a friend.. And on one song I use only 2 room microphones to record the entire drums.. Lots of crazy stuff.. That's the hybrid-drumming is all about.. crazy!
Photo 1: I didn't need more toms because I only used for sample (I edited the pitch later on from 2 toms), same with cymbals. The real performance is mainly used to create the groove, which is between snare and kick, and hi-hat or ride.
Photo 2: Notice the rug used on the kick. It's to eliminate the leak of kick sound, to maximize the editing process.
Photo 3: Kick. 2 mics on them, one is a standard kick mic (guess the name/type) and the other one is pzm (pressure zone) mic placed on top of the aluminum briefcase. The combination of both sounds pretty good, but unfortunately not during the double pedal. I triggered the double pedal (and used the kick sound recorded years earlier).
Photo 4: Kick - front
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Blooddrift
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Registration date: 2007-12-30
| | Subject: Re: Photos from the Drum rec session - Hybrid Drums Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:45 am | |
| wow that's genius ! nice setup and way of working |
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trephining
Number of posts: 181
Location: Drumheller, Ab. Canada
Registration date: 2007-12-31
| | Subject: Re: Photos from the Drum rec session - Hybrid Drums Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:30 pm | |
| | Blooddrift wrote: | wow that's genius !
nice setup and way of working |
Ditto. |
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Guest
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| | Subject: Re: Photos from the Drum rec session - Hybrid Drums Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:43 pm | |
|  the modern way to displace us drummers ....*arg* Ha Ha Ha  nice setup! although I wouldn't know how to ao all these mix things.... so, I'll leave it the "old" way.  |
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spitonself
Number of posts: 105
Location: Earth
Registration date: 2007-12-30
| | Subject: Re: Photos from the Drum rec session - Hybrid Drums Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:18 pm | |
| | Martin wrote: |
the modern way to displace us drummers ....*arg*
Ha Ha Ha
nice setup! although I wouldn't know how to ao all these mix things....
so, I'll leave it the "old" way.
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Actually it all began because of the lack of resources (no available drummer) and lack of time (not enough time to do weekly rehearsals), but once we got the way-out by doing that hybrid-drumming, we just kinda 'addicted' to that method until now...  |
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