Best Sounding Snare Sound EVER

cale w · Post by **cale w** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:03 am

the finger genius wrote:A gunshot can be used to add some oomph to your snare.

Just make sure to then reamp that to trigger another gunshot.

I spit wine when I read that.

jerk!

dsw · Post by **dsw** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:58 pm

I think this thread should be made a sticky.

To MSE: new room? link?

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:17 pm

yeah i've gone crazy and demolished/rebuilt practically my whole place. still a work in progress. the place is still mostly a disaster. but i got the new mastering room functioning enough to do a record for garges the other day and a couple singles today:

and the living/live room is at least inhabitable now:

i have so much still to do. please kill me. anyway, somewhat on topic, that snare on the far left of my kit just arrived at the house along with a visiting ex-roommate. an ancient leedy 13x3. the shell is more oval than round, but the genius drummer who lives upstairs gave it a little tlc, i finessed the tuning, sorta, and while it's no slingerland radio king, it's sounding pretty ok. and just lookit how cute it is:

TV Lenny · Post by **TV Lenny** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:04 am

Sweet snare! It is VERY cute. What year is it? I've picked up a '65 Leedy/Slingerland and a nice little Pork Pie...both sound pretty good.

I can't believe this thread is still going and going strong. That is awesome. haha

Tom

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:21 am

i dunno what year it is, i'll ask my friend when he gets back today. but he pulled it out of the case and i was all "omfg it's ADORABLE!"

for some reason i thought of this thread the other day and had to dig it up to see if it was as funny as i remembered. it is.

i got another good snare pic, hang on...

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:32 am

That is a cute little snare!

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:12 pm

so that leedy is "pre-1925" according to its owner.

in honor of this thread:

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:50 pm

Beautiful, beautiful.

I always wondered what it would sound like if I stretched snare wires across the resonant head of a bass drum.

dave watkins · Post by **dave watkins** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:01 pm

MSE:

please please record something with that setup and post it here! you know you want to

even if it's just a single overhead or something, ...in your spare time....

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:09 pm

Not only can't I believe this has gone on for 9 pages, I also can't believe I went back and read the entire thing.

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:43 pm

dave watkins wrote:please please record something with that setup and post it here

i already took all that stupidity down...and i don't really have a functioning studio at the moment...but in the interest of furthering the silliness i will see what i can do.

Gentleman Jim · Post by **Gentleman Jim** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:38 pm

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:

anything being hit by yuval gabay

Not anything, trust me. I worked for Soul Coughing for a couple of years. It was often thorough experimentation that brought him to some of his more unorthodox moves. And (sometimes) to his credit, the dude did not make snap judgments. I remember him being absolutely in love with a horrifically stretched set of snares for about a week once. Finally, after the sound engineer told him that he was forced to gate the shit out of it pretty much all night long, Yuval relented and let a new set go on.

But the 10" rack tom tuned really 'boingy' and set up to be played with the extension arm of a double kick pedal? That was pretty cool in some applications. (less cool in others...) And he put contact mics on his kick, two of his snares, and his hi hat, then ran them through effects and then through a Peavy Blues Classic guitar amp, and that was AMAAAAZZING!

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 9:41 am

you worked for soul coughing for a couple of years and you are just telling us this NOW? more stories. let's have 'em.

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:34 pm

Yeah. Spill!

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:38 am

jim seems to be ignoring our requests for soul coughing stories. so here's this in the meanwhile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2XeUvSmxhE

every snare in the house, plus a few extra toms, a hat and a resonant kick for good measure. and a cowbell.

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