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Thunderbird Club
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- Mar 8, 2011
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- Authorized greenboy designs builder/Owner of BNA Audio
This engineer went nutty on the drum mic’ing. 3 mics on the snare, one on the hats, rack tom, floor tom, 2 overheads, THREE mics on the kick drum, stereo drum room mics. One track for bass. Anywhere from 2-6 guitar tracks, lead vocal, couple tracks of bgv’s and that’s it
13! Lucky for some.
Well, lucky number seven passed me by
Lucky number seven called my name and passed on by
Well he came back don't you know
With his brother six in tow
And that is how number thirteen wound up by my side.
Lucky number seven called my name and passed on by
Well he came back don't you know
With his brother six in tow
And that is how number thirteen wound up by my side.
12 mics on one drum kit - can't say I've ever seen that many used for one kit before. I'm sure it'll sound great. Although I do think you and the drummer should have some fun with the engineer and hang a cowbell when he isn't looking, then ask him why it doesn't have a mic.
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12 mics on one drum kit - can't say I've ever seen that many used for one kit before. I'm sure it'll sound great. Although I do think you and the drummer should have some fun with the engineer and hang a cowbell when he isn't looking, then ask him why it doesn't have a mic.
I’m sure this dude would throw a half dozen mics on that too! I’ve seen more drum mics, but wouldn’t use that many myself. It was a fun night, despite a very slow engineer
Poor Gretsch never came off the stand. We went for something fairly raw. Somewhere between 70’s country and The Rolling Stones. ‘Bird worked perfectly for all three tunes
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
Color coordinated leads that match the door frames, panels and acoustic panels - Nice...
Maybe a little bit on the OCD side, but something I might do as well.
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
Nice and old school with an SSL and Auratone speakers - Haven't seen a pair of those for decades...
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
Way too much money for just one extra song!
Plus 7” singles are cool
Yeah, but you could press a 7" EP that runs on 33rpm, that could fit all three songs!
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Nice and old school with an SSL and Auratone speakers - Haven't seen a pair of those for decades...
That SSL was a sweet sounding board. Seems like when I was coming up, you were either a Neve person or an SSL person (I may be a Helios person) when it came to consoles. SSL was considered the pristine console for big pop records and Neve (or Trident for that matter) was for rock and roll. I’ve done a lot more rock and roll than pop and I kinda lean SSL, personally.
Oh, and the little speakers in front are Avantones, not Auratones...but it’s pretty much the same thing. We never listened to those during tracking though. The big monitors were a very large Adams, with a pair of Genelecs in the mid field
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
How does a kick drum need three mics? Three on the snare doesn't make much sense to me. Two does. What do I know? Not much.
Kick, snare, 2 x OH and a mid/side pair would keep me happy.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
For the time being, I'm doing kick, 2 x OH, and bleed into everything else. Isolating the drums is proving to be much more difficult in the basement of blasphemy and bad ideas than I had expected. It's one of the reasons I haven't put up any recordings.
A fellow T-bird owner needs some help - I'd hate to see a 70's Gibson T-bird get butchered any further, so I thought I'd bring this up here...
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- Mar 8, 2011
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I wouldn’t have mic’d It the way he did either, but I find it best to let each engineer do their thing. Never know what’ll come of it.
That’s more than I’d use if I were engineering! As long as it sounds good, I’m not fussed with how they got there. I do know, whenever I decide there’s a ‘right’ way to do anything in recording, some engineer comes along with something very different and it works great. The drums sounded massive last night, so I’m happy. The engineer is going to mix the songs, but he’s also giving me a drive with all the isolated tracks. If we don’t love the mixes, I’ll redo it myself. It’ll be fun to sift through em all and see what works best. It was such a good sounding room, I solo’d just the room mics and one of the kick mics and nothing else was ‘needed,’ in my opinion, but we’ll see
