Small Town Sleeper - Day 2 "Drum Hell"
Day 2 started out with me, Dann, Will, and Derek going to out Hopatcong, NJ to check out The Barbershop Studios. Holy geez what a place. In addition to a retarded equipment list, the vibe and sound there is stellar. BReaking Benjamin just did their album there. The place is a 100 year old stone church thats now been converted to a studio complex. very nice. We'll be spending a day recording there for this album.
Back to my studio, Troy arrived just as we got back. (Troy is the singer, Dann - drums, Will - Bass, Derek - guitars). Today, all day, was spent tuning drums. endlessly tuning drums. We decided to use my Pearl kit for the album, which of course i am very happy with. We also meticulously tuned up about ten snare drums, 8 of which have passed approval for use on the album. We've got plenty of great choices. My drum tech from Collosal Drums, named Dylan Wissing, came out for many hours and made everything sound great. in fact, at 3am, he just left, along with Dann and Cooper. Those boys are real troopers, and their hard work today will pay dividends tomorrow when we put up microphones and get sounds. Yes, thats correct, we spent about ten hours just choosing drums, tuning drums, listening, tweeking sounds, trying cymbals, hats, etc... Not a single mic was used today. There are certain luxuries that come with an album budget from a label, the biggest luxury is time.
Tomorrow, we'll do another extensive drum shootout (remember the last one i did????), i'm putting the winning mics from the last shootout up against some newly aquired mics. Then i'm taking my favorite picks (which were all listened to thru an Avalon 737), and doing a mic pre shootout, where i'll try different mic pre's on the same mic and see which pre's fit which drums and mics the best. It'll probably be fairly eye opening. Boring, tedious, and eye opening. I'll try to blog about it.
Oh, and my webcam came in today. I'm gonna try to start video blogging very soon, maybe even on Day 3.
- Ken Lewis
Back to my studio, Troy arrived just as we got back. (Troy is the singer, Dann - drums, Will - Bass, Derek - guitars). Today, all day, was spent tuning drums. endlessly tuning drums. We decided to use my Pearl kit for the album, which of course i am very happy with. We also meticulously tuned up about ten snare drums, 8 of which have passed approval for use on the album. We've got plenty of great choices. My drum tech from Collosal Drums, named Dylan Wissing, came out for many hours and made everything sound great. in fact, at 3am, he just left, along with Dann and Cooper. Those boys are real troopers, and their hard work today will pay dividends tomorrow when we put up microphones and get sounds. Yes, thats correct, we spent about ten hours just choosing drums, tuning drums, listening, tweeking sounds, trying cymbals, hats, etc... Not a single mic was used today. There are certain luxuries that come with an album budget from a label, the biggest luxury is time.
Tomorrow, we'll do another extensive drum shootout (remember the last one i did????), i'm putting the winning mics from the last shootout up against some newly aquired mics. Then i'm taking my favorite picks (which were all listened to thru an Avalon 737), and doing a mic pre shootout, where i'll try different mic pre's on the same mic and see which pre's fit which drums and mics the best. It'll probably be fairly eye opening. Boring, tedious, and eye opening. I'll try to blog about it.
Oh, and my webcam came in today. I'm gonna try to start video blogging very soon, maybe even on Day 3.
- Ken Lewis
posted by Protools Mixing at 2:31 AM
1 Comments:
Can't wait to hear what mic/pre combos stand out. Every time I put up a new set- I am amazed at the results. Looking forward to the STS album! (Headed through Terre Haute and Springfield later today - will wave to Urbana on the way.)
/tf
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