I was working with some BIAB drums yesterday.
A fellow had created an instrumental song and the drums sounded wrong for the mix becasue it had a clicky bass drum.
I mentioned it and he asked me to have a look & listen to the drums to see if I could fix the problem.
I've addressed clicky kicks in BIAB before - as it now seems to be the default sound when they record kits.
To my surprise the kick wasn't particularly clicky when isolated.
It sounded clicky in the mix but I assume that was due to masking and overlapping of other instruments as the click isn't too bad in the stereo file.
Take a listen
Is that the kick ringing on or the toms in sympathy? I can't tell but I'm stunned that they recorded the kit with that much overtone.
I THINK it's the toms becasue it's mostly in the left ear.
Sometimes I wonder about engineers
Sometimes I wonder about engineers
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rayc
rayc
Re: Sometimes I wonder about engineers
That sounds like a floor tom ringing to me. Perfectly normal.rayc wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 11:47 pm I was working with some BIAB drums yesterday.
A fellow had created an instrumental song and the drums sounded wrong for the mix becasue it had a clicky bass drum.
I mentioned it and he asked me to have a look & listen to the drums to see if I could fix the problem.
I've addressed clicky kicks in BIAB before - as it now seems to be the default sound when they record kits.
To my surprise the kick wasn't particularly clicky when isolated.
It sounded clicky in the mix but I assume that was due to masking and overlapping of other instruments as the click isn't too bad in the stereo file.
Take a listen
Wedding Song - 8 Jan BBDrums2.mp3
Is that the kick ringing on or the toms in sympathy? I can't tell but I'm stunned that they recorded the kit with that much overtone.
I THINK it's the toms becasue it's mostly in the left ear.
Rebel Yell
Re: Sometimes I wonder about engineers
THAT loud though Greg?
I was fiddling with the mix of Sewer Song that you played on almost a decade ago and the toms don't ring much if at all - now you may have gated them - i don't know but the ringing on this BIAB track made it hard to use in a mix.
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rayc
rayc
Re: Sometimes I wonder about engineers
They can ring a lot. It just depends on how they're tuned. I sometimes have to moongel my floor toms live because they ring too much with all that's going on and the soundguy can't gate them without cutting them off.
Rebel Yell
Re: Sometimes I wonder about engineers
I raised this problem in the BIAB users forum. It seems those who hear/find the problem end up using easy drummer or something similar and those who don't simply don't.
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rayc
rayc