Door Closing as sub Kick Sound?

[TapeOpLarry]

Anyone else ever use a track of shutting the door to a room with a mic in it for a low kick sound? We did (TC30k Earthworks up in the air high back of room). The lowest thud through the sub woofer ever. 20 Hz? Makes the studio bathroom shake. Probably driving Hamptone nuts...

[drumsound]

Sounds like fun Larry!

[Lukey]

sounds delicious.

I'll be trying it tonight.

[tony_tomlinson]

No, but I like the idea of using atypical sources to creat atmosphere. We recently used a galvanized steel wash tub for a bass drum. It was struck with a mallet and yeilded cool results.

check it out...

www.myspace.com/nashborocanecutters

the song is "Never Leave me Baby"

[kosh]

wow - that's an unusual idea, closing a door, eh? i'll have to try that one.

oh, sorry - i'm dave, new here...hello!

i built one of those diy sub kick thingies as i'm sure many of you have done. i tried several different 6", 8", speakers for the mic element but in the end a 10" speaker did the trick for me.

[river]

Foley guys sometimes use a slamming hollow core door as a gunshot substitute.

[dave watkins]

it's stuff like this that makes my day, and reminds me how much damn fun recording is. thanks Larry. the article a couple issues back where the books talked about mounting subwoofers in filing cabinets, and firing infrasonic frequencies through them to create percussive sounds for one of their songs was also pretty brilliant. the mechanical abilities of moving air is pretty impressive. a neat percussion trick i have found is to use an empty 2 litre as a kind of tabla-esq drum. close micing (with a dynamic) the spout can yield some interesting low frequency sounds if you play the middle of the bottle, and playing the rounded top area produces a good hi freq snap kind of like a kick ball.... and come to think of it a kick ball would sound pretty ridiculous blended into a mix too, so happy misappropriation of random objects for the benefit of audio.

[AstroDan]

I only have light doors with tight frames (prevents the slam). I need a 12' mahogany jobber with the big iron pyramids on it in a gigantic marble for-yay.

Priest used a heavily processed slamming door for some track on 'British Steel' according to the Classic Album doc...

[joel hamilton]

I think he means with the door SHUT already.

I do this with one of the drum cases, and a towel or something ALL the time. One of the mic in the room, usually within about 10 feet of the kit, totally muffled with a drum case and some towels or sweatchirts or whatever. I will lowpass that even more, and expand/compress the heck out of that. You can really make the low end of the kit really "bloom" with the appropriate release time on the expander. I like the ADR express limiter for this a lot.

[thunderboy]

I think he means with the door SHUT already.

Door Closing as sub Kick Sound

Anyone else ever use a track of shutting the door to a room

jt

[lyman]

slamming hollowcore

instant genre!

[Lemontree]

try pulling the back seat out of a car and put an RE20 in the trunk and slam that...sounded way cool, very dry.

[Traveler001]

HAHA

Once when I was recording in my friend's Dorm room in college, we opened and shut a small refrigerator door to mimic the sound of the bass drum.

Another guy beat his hands on a plastic garbage pail turned upside down for more drum sounds.

And we recorded each track separately using a small condenser mic from Radio Shack, a compressor pedal, and a Fostex R8.

[joel hamilton]

I think he means with the door SHUT already.

Door Closing as sub Kick Sound

Anyone else ever use a track of shutting the door to a room

jt

Oh. DO I win something for my reading skills?

[llmonty]

cool! i've done something similar by throwing a mic in a big guitar case (acoustic or hollowbody), shutting it and then banging on it. surely not subwoofer blowing up low freq, but cool for sure! plus then you get to tell stories about it, which always makes it SOUND better.