Brendon Small on Drum Recording Remix Hotel Los Angeles 2008

[VirgilwithanE]

He is actually kicking ass WHILE chewing bubblegum! :D

[BloodyBay]

So when we're listening to Pickles the Drummer play, we're actually listening to Gene Hoglan, huh?

Instant Gene Hoglan fans, the line starts here. :)

[xXgkhnarbXx]

@BloodyBay you really didnt know that?

[BloodyBay]

@xXgkhnarbXx I had an inkling, but some Metalocalypse fans might not even know that much. Let's not try to make ourselves look smart at their expense, shall we?

[stratomaster55]

Brutal



[MrJohnDoe2525]

Can anyone watch my vid of brendon small voicing nathan on my radio and also Dethklok will be touring in California starting july 9th

[WolftheLone]

I've been playing guitar for a few years now and I am just beginning to have an "ear" for music but I can hear the mistakes he was talking about but shit happens, especially when your playing metal the man is a great guitarist and I love watching him jam.

[metalcowhorse]

what the shit? i typed in apparently im los, and this shit came up

FUCK YOU

[ShoreStudios]

@metalcowhorse

Do the world a favor and kill yourself, this man is a musical genius, his show is epic and his album is the best selling death metal record in the world. What are your accomplishments?

[JapaneseWaffle]

If I close my eyes it's like Charles Foster Ofdensen explaining it.

[phreestylesk8r]

Gene Hoglan rules!!!!!!!!!! i hope to be as good as him one day

[nowayride]

Another great technique is to trigger the snare and kick then run sample dubs over them. Extreme EQ the samples to fit in the mix better. Sometimes a snare or a kick by itself tends to get lost and this helps bring it forward cleanly while keeping it consistent with little need for compression. This also allows you to blend tones too.

I generally end up with a pretty standard kick/snare then the dubs are rolled off past 500hz, nasty freqs cut, and around 2k+ boosted. It adds a lot of body.

[Emceetem]

@nowayride It's nice your knowledge of drumming.

Wish i knew a drummer.

[twitchyAMC]

is he always chewing gum?

[chinchilly97]

does he sound like charles ofdenson? i just realized that at the start of the video they kind of sounded the same, i know there played by the same people but maby charlese is brendon's regular talking voice

[OKAY546]

He does but just a bit more serious tone to it.

[21MegaYoshi]

@chinchilly97 yep

[FollowHim4Eternity]

He sounds a lot different than I would have thought. His singing voice is so low, but his real voice is pretty normal.

[Robstailey]

i imagine it goes through a bit of processing before the final mix so he sounds like nathan explosion and not brendon small

[jjjduce]

when he sings live its pretty close to nathan if not exactly the same. i dont think it goes through too much processing if not just the normal standard

[Metalunited101]

Actually he just makes his voice sound throaty. He doesn't need any effects or processing. Type in Brendon Small recording home studio. He shows you how to do it. Even I can do it.

[GeneralMillss]

Well he sure as hell sounds like Nathan Explosion when he sings and impersonates him live. No processing.

[Phoenixforced]

There's a vid of him just riffing Nathan's voice, it comes really easy to him. He just... does it. On one of the videos about his home studio, check it out, it's AWESOME

[GeneralMillss]

Not unlike most death metal singers.

[robjhylton]

fucking awesome

[Lavatain]

fuck me i didnt hear any mistakes in that lol, i wondered what he was doin, i thought it was perfect, u can obviously see who has the music degree

[Seifter16]

I could hear it, a few of the sweeps were off, but fucking barely.

[Lavatain]

oh yeh lol, i hear the sweeps now, i was tapping my finger on the desk lol, also the drums in that harmony intro were a little bit too soon, not by much tho

[Seifter16]

Yeah, I bet it's nice to be so good that when your drums are off by a 1/10th of a measure and your sweeps are barely off tune it's a mistake worth noting.

[Lavatain]

well 1/10th is quite obvious, coz thats slightly faster than half a beat, but i guess we should carry on with music degrees and get to his level XD

[Seifter16]

1/10th of 4/4 at 180bpm is barely noticeable to most people though, a lot of live bands will end up off by half a beat by the time they finish a song and no one notices at all, especially in metal what with the high bpms and all.

[MrNebulistic]

@Lavatain I agree. Small has an incredible knack for metal, especially considering he started out as a small time comedian, wouldn't think the two would mesh so well on Metalocalypse but they do. Also you can hear where the bass line dips a little where his double bass kick is getting throwing off click.

[xXdeadXguitaristXx]

fuck man i was born on july 11 too XD

[DeekyDicawdo]

Oh, you were born on July 11, 2009, cool.

[Decklocation]

This video was posted on my Birthday.... Just thought the whole world SHOULD know. :)

[condemnd3]

CON GRATZ :D!!!

[CRADLEFANWILKINS]

@Decklocation That is my least favorite day of the year.

[impendingdevastation]

Gene is one of my biggest inspirations as a drum student.. it's always good to hear more about his work with Dethklok, he is phenomenally talented

[CampKillYourFace]

Yeah, I would imagine as a drum student it would be hard for him to not be an inspiration.

[guitarfreak714]

chris adler has a pretty perfect and consistant double bass