04-11-2014, 05:28 AM
FYI, the drums were done with Superior Drummer Roots Brushes SDX.
This SDX has tons of room/ambience mic, and even a chamber, but I think that (quite reasonably) Mike reduced them to 2.
In my version I've used quite a lot of the built-in effects in SD to get a reasonable (to my taste) sound out of it, plus there was some bleed in the various mics but I did a bounce in SD without any effects or bleed, because I thought people would prefer to build their own ambience artificially anyway.
About the kick, to me it sounds quite real. In a jazz kit, as much as I can tell more often than not the kick is quite big in sub but relatively floppy, which is probably what you have issues with.
The bass was done with Spectrasonic Trillian upright. And I agree that it's quite noisy and transient. I struggled a lot with that, and I haven't done such a good job of it if I compare with what I've heard from a few mixes here.
And indeed I provided the MIDI to allow you to change/augment the sound at will.
Good idea about the airy pad tucked under the vibra/rhodes. Cool!
This SDX has tons of room/ambience mic, and even a chamber, but I think that (quite reasonably) Mike reduced them to 2.
In my version I've used quite a lot of the built-in effects in SD to get a reasonable (to my taste) sound out of it, plus there was some bleed in the various mics but I did a bounce in SD without any effects or bleed, because I thought people would prefer to build their own ambience artificially anyway.
About the kick, to me it sounds quite real. In a jazz kit, as much as I can tell more often than not the kick is quite big in sub but relatively floppy, which is probably what you have issues with.
The bass was done with Spectrasonic Trillian upright. And I agree that it's quite noisy and transient. I struggled a lot with that, and I haven't done such a good job of it if I compare with what I've heard from a few mixes here.
And indeed I provided the MIDI to allow you to change/augment the sound at will.
Good idea about the airy pad tucked under the vibra/rhodes. Cool!
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