28-01-2019, 05:11 AM
Nice! Yeah that's it there's a line between enhancing a good live performance and replacing the drummer all together ahah
One thing I have been trying out (although it works best when tracking with a click preferably with a good drummer) is parallel compress the drums (either kick + snare or everything together but less of the overheads and EQ them so that it's contained) + distortion (to your taste) and it can really add that punch you'd get with a drum machine.
Back when I was in a band we experimented a lot with pedals (fuzz, overdrive, distortion but also delay, phase etc.) so we'd have keyboards going through pedals, then we tried vocals, even drums etc. it's really fun to experiment with this. When we recorded our latest EP the sound engineer re-amped the drums. So you record the drums, play them through an amp and record them again. If you have the luxury of having an amp and mic it's really cool to do, or you can use the amp plugins. What I find really cool is that I've tried so many "wrong stuff" (guitar through bass cab, vocals through guitar amp etc.) as a musician that I am happy experimenting anything at the moment ahah.
Ratatat are awesome but it's very particular, there's no vocals and the drums are programmed, they play a lot with guitar harmonies and / or keyboard harmonies which give a huge width to everything they do. They replicate it on stage + use visuals like you're at Woodstock on acid ahah (slightly off topic). As far as their mix goes they are really good at closing / opening the mix between verse and chorus which makes it interesting (I can get bored easily with electronic music). An example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlcywgEMuGI
One thing I have been trying out (although it works best when tracking with a click preferably with a good drummer) is parallel compress the drums (either kick + snare or everything together but less of the overheads and EQ them so that it's contained) + distortion (to your taste) and it can really add that punch you'd get with a drum machine.
Back when I was in a band we experimented a lot with pedals (fuzz, overdrive, distortion but also delay, phase etc.) so we'd have keyboards going through pedals, then we tried vocals, even drums etc. it's really fun to experiment with this. When we recorded our latest EP the sound engineer re-amped the drums. So you record the drums, play them through an amp and record them again. If you have the luxury of having an amp and mic it's really cool to do, or you can use the amp plugins. What I find really cool is that I've tried so many "wrong stuff" (guitar through bass cab, vocals through guitar amp etc.) as a musician that I am happy experimenting anything at the moment ahah.
Ratatat are awesome but it's very particular, there's no vocals and the drums are programmed, they play a lot with guitar harmonies and / or keyboard harmonies which give a huge width to everything they do. They replicate it on stage + use visuals like you're at Woodstock on acid ahah (slightly off topic). As far as their mix goes they are really good at closing / opening the mix between verse and chorus which makes it interesting (I can get bored easily with electronic music). An example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlcywgEMuGI