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How hot should I be hitting drums.

I've been hitting

-5 dbvu on kick and snare and hihat
0 dbvu on overheads and room
+3 on toms.

What have you guys been doing.

I'm in a devo influenced band.

MANNY!

You know how much I love this album! I'm glad Kim and Kelley didn't join the loudness war. I am also going to master our album so it's peaking. I hate that sound!

Cheers!

I use a A Designs REDDI for the direct and a RE20 with a 451 taped to it (phase aligned). It gives me many options.

I like birch for tracking! A lot of studios used birch in the late 60's cause it was the pre eq'ed sound and engineers had to do less eqing because the gear was limited then as well

Tonetubby!

Good stuff!

Hey we played wih you guys a few years back! We were direct support for Shonen Knife at the Troub.

That was a fun night.

NU-TRA

I use a pop filter on all my ribbons. Not only does it sound better but it protects my ribbons as well.

I currently own Event ASP8's and I was thinking about getting something smaller like a Adam A7 or a Focal Solo 6. Any thoughts? My new control room is smaller and the ASP8's are tough to mix on in them. I don't want a hyped speaker I hear the A7 and Solo6 translate well

I've used a sheops and senn 416 for this about 8 feet back pad in on the board sometimes facing slighty away from the gun

Has anyone use the Zildjian 12" Special Recording Hi-Hats? Would they work in a rock situation. I was looking for hi hats with a clean sound when they are opened up. My new beats sound too trashy for the studio. Also thinking about getting 14 mastersounds. I was told that the mastersounds are more q...

Hello, No as I wrote above I'm using a folcrom for summing. The folcrom is a 16 input passive summing mixer and you use whatever preamp you want for the make up gain. The dangerous already has a preamp built in the folcrom doesn't. I just want a nice preamp that isn't t to colorful and has a nice ef...

After the folcrom so just two channels. The folcrom is summing 16 channels to two outputs. I was thinking maybe the J99 has enough bandwidth for a whole mix. Everyone talks about summing but I never get a good sense of what is being used. I don't want to color the sound too much. I tried an api 312 ...

Anyone using any of the Seventh Circle Preamps for summing after a folcrom? Which preamp have you used with succes. I was thinking the J99 would rule for this app.

I have a few of the vic firth and extreme isolation headphones. My drummer records to a click at times and it's really hard to get any kind of volume into them. Do I need a better headphone amp.I'm using the headphone amps in my central station. I like the iso headphones because you don't get click ...

Hehe Hey Eddie, You are lucky I'm in the middle of moving so I had to pass on that board. Congrats on that beast of a board. I Enjoyed my 32 channel topaz I regret selling it. How does it compare to the Scorpion and TS. I know it should be a world of difference but what do you hear? Well, this is a ...