On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 01:28 +0200, alexander wrote: Your snare is too important an instrument to relegate to such abuse. Rich... > I've discovered a somewhat crude way of getting a "fat" tom tom sound > from the overheads, not magically doing away with close up micing of > toms. But if you're on a budget (like me) and only have 4 inputs > available It works quite well.(note: you will also need a separate snare > track) It's quite simple: > > Insert an EQ on the overheads and boost around 70-120Hz (depending on > how the toms are tuned, use your ears ;)) Now, we got more fat out of > the toms, but, the snare drum is most likely ruined, unless you want it > to sound muddy of course. To fix this we move the snare track so it's in > phase with the overheads, then invert the polarity and most of the mud > in the snare drum should be canceled out from the overheads. I suspect > an XY placed above and in line with the toms yields the best result.. > > I'm not sure if this actually is usable in the real world as I have not > tested it properly yet, i.e mixing in other instruments and so forth. > And then there's the chance that someone already tried it and scrapped > it :P. > > The clips are from a session when I tested a drum kit that I've actually > built (I'll tell you more about this if anyone's interested) Recorded in > a modern super expensive studio where I study, but all mixed in ardour... > > The filename says what's goin on.. > http://g.imagehost.org/download/0746/noToms > http://g.imagehost.org/download/0188/WithToms > http://g.imagehost.org/download/0878/rawOverheads > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
