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That parts express (love them btw) one looks nice. Yeah I’m class D all the way right now. Two big crown class D amps and the little Fosi. I have a nice Decware tube amp on order but it’s like a year out. I’d love to try a nice class A or A B to compare with the crowns but right now I’m certainly no...

Those are surprisingly good . I've got one powering a set of radio shack minimus speakers in the living room and it sounds great. It seems impossible given the size of the thing. Yes, while I was waiting a few days on my second crown amp to come in for the Amphions, I ran them off the Fosi. I was s...

Several months ago I bought some Auratones I might have been reading / skimming too quick, but I. Don’t see you mentioning what you’re powering the mono auratone with. Super curious. On an adjacent note, during a recent relocation and temporary downsizing of my home studio, lucked into a mint pair ...

That mono auratone is going to serve you well here. You're already on a good track with the ambient effects. Eq also makes a big impact. Brighter feels forward. Darker moves back. Modern mixes seem to want every element to be bright and crisp and well defined but having some things mush together or...

I like using some of the newer UAD stuff, like Sound City and Ocean Way rooms, to push percussion into a room. I mic things with this sort of intent at times, so that I can just keep the sounds off the edge of the speaker. https://open.spotify.com/album/4yFJG2hGKerSocacfwSHjo is a record I did all ...

So my latest mission has been to deliberately place elements in my mix front to back. I’ve always played with panning and generally widen my mixes or narrow them based on sections etc just like ramping up the excitement from the beginning to the end of the song. Compressing something and allowing th...

A.David.MacKinnon wrote: ↑

Fri May 17, 2024 5:30 am

I just signed up for Music Theory For Songwriters which starts Tuesday. I'm looking forward to to it.

I looked at this course, I was gonna sign up but the times don’t work for me. Seems like a really cool course.

So will you do like direct sounds and room / OHs etc.? When I first used samples I was kind of shocked at how meh sounding a lot of them were but then when I realized those work better when you are augmenting versus replacing sometimes. Then the amount of options on the samples was crazy, at least w...

If you're using the samples to supplement the existing kit, then I would think you wouldn't want it to be the same sound. Otherwise what's the point? So I do this when I need something the snare isn't giving me, mostly on other peoples tracks I am mixing, like a rehearsal room demo. So if it's a th...

I always mic the bottom. If I get tracks from somebody with no mic on the bottom I re-amp the snare track with a snare drum sitting on top of a Fender Pro Jr and mic the snares there. I almost always have an 1176 plug on the bottom snare fast attack/slowest release. BTW, tried this today on a mix t...

I have several and switch between them on a song by song basis. Supraphonic and COB Slingerland get a lot of love.. and a slingerland wood snare... sometimes a ludwig pioneer wood snare and also a super deep olympic wood snare. Carter McCLean did a video with his old Ludwig Pioneer and it sounded a...

I only have one snare, which I bought for my wife back when she wanted to play drums. I take it to tracking sessions with me just in case. 14" brass Yamaha. IMG_0175.JPG I had a Yamaha kit with those turning lugs back in the day. Man, those drums sounded great but I HATED changing heads on them. Th...

Also, super pricey but that A&F brass snare sounds amazing in every vid I’ve seen. I was talking to a drummer who I sold my old monitors to and he has one. I’ve not heard it in person but he claims it’s that good.

The Mapex stuff should not be slept on, it's affordable and really well made. The owner of the company seems to be a true drum geek. One of the videos where they compare a bunch of snares had the hammered 14x6.5 brass Mapex and it sounded phenomenal. I went back several times to that vid and others...

I have the Evans G1 now but I’m gonna switch it to an ambassador and see if it makes any difference. They are basically the same but I think that I have used ambassadors for so long on the snare that the Evans may just not sound ‘right’ to me. Good call on the snares, I’ve only used the ones that ca...