Fat Kick Drum Recording Technique

http://www.prorecordingtips.com/ This video shows a professional technique to create a thick, full kick drum recording with minimal effort. This technique is used by pros in studios all around the world.

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Music

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• Recording Drums
• drum recording
• recording tips
• recording techniques
• pro tools
• kick drum
• bass drum

[xWhetux]

an sm57 on a kick drum? dude, have you ever looked at its frequency response chart? it picks up barely anything below 200hz..

[girotube]

Use the propper mic! I have 4 kick mics and never had the need for the sub mic.

Also your Pro Tools audio engine needs a make-over

Just about everything recorded on Pro Tools with their audio gear sounds sterile and thin.

The use of sub kicks is a waste of time! When you mix, for commercial media, all those low freq. are rolled off.. If you don't want to blow consumers speakers.

60hz - below that is a risk Specially if you are mixing on NS10 lol.

[KonFoozed]

I don't want to sound like a disgusting heathen or anything but if I wanted a quick (and dirty) way of fattening up a thin kick I'd just have a low frequency sine wave generator gated with the kick track. I'm sure this is amateurish but the results aren't half bad for 2 minutes of work

[girotube]

@Tradjectory Beta 52 IS a kick mic.. does not need help :)

I rather use something called "Kick Port" on the reso head if I need extra lows ..

I even have a video of the SM57 as a kick mic by it self A/B no special port adapter nor sub kick mics..

check it out when U get a chance..

Take care boss.. :)

[Tradjectory]

@girotube The Shure Beta 52 sound better on Kicks, it works pretty well for the sub bass without a speaker

[Biggermanalways]

quick fix. Use sleishman drums. I've never used a sleishman kit that sounded bad.

[daynaybaybe]

also, a Beta 52 properly placed in a decent drum should sound a lot better than this. Personally, I've given it up for the N/D868 most of the time.

[daynaybaybe]

In anything but hiphop, sub 50hz energy is just eating headroom.

[jeffreysbrother]

It is simply not the case that a larger diaphragm (or a large speaker in this case) is able to hear a lower range of frequencies. The Schoeps Microphone company came out with a paper about this years ago. Using a speaker like this will simply limit the higher range of frequencies. Driver-size definitely determines the lower end of the material in an amplification setting (bass amps, etc) . . . but not in terms of what is "capturable."

[plusff]

haha, this video might be good, but narrating and background music are just hilarious, seriously, i was waiting when this dude will stand up from his chair and starts chasing benny hill while explaining how he makes kick sounds fatter.

[ernbob14]

This seems like so much un needed work

[vikingraider1]

Audix D6 - the answer to all your bass drum mic problems.