Loop #136
While I might not use single-headed toms with Pinstripes (I stick to the coated Ambassadors), one two three things that Phil Collins and I have in common is our love for Gretsch drums…. and gated reverb. Lots of gated reverb. Also, coincidentally enough, we both have major butt-chins.
With the toms on my bebop-sized kit (18″ kick, 12″ tom & 14″ floor tom) cranked up high, this four bar loop is a somewhat hypnotic, tribal pattern ending with four 16th note flams on the snare (with the strainer turned off).
Phil Collins
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Ryan, what is the signal chain for this recording? Mics-pres.
any room on this? is it quantized ( elastic’d) at all.
really really nice.
Hey Craig,
Thanks… the signal chain on this session was pretty unexciting (i.e no fancy, vintage preamps involved). Mics were 57′s on the snare and toms, Beta 52A on the kick and Rode NT5s for overheads. These went straight into a ProFire 2626 and then into Logic. I didn’t use any outboard effects during mixing, just some of the Logic compressors and a gated reverb I threw together in Space Designer.
Here’s a screenshot of the Logic console. I didn’t use any room mics, but you’ll see from the levels that the mix is mainly the overheads, which were placed pretty high over the kit and picked up a lot of the room sound.
No quantizing on this… just me, myself and the click track.
Ryan