Short clip of Brett tracking drums

The entire song with the full band will be up soon along with a lot more stuff!

I'm recording a song for Thrown to Belial at my modest home studio. We used all natural drums other than the kick which we triggered with axis ekit triggers. The kick drum sound is the speed metal sample on the Alesis DM5 module.

The snare is my 6.5x13 inch Tama Metalworks with a remo powerstroke 3 batter head. I tuned it really tight. The head was about to break from the tension and the rim was almost level with the head. I knew that snare has what it takes to cut through well without any sample replacement or triggering. I used an sm57 close up on the snare to get the impact and the pitch of the ring. Not much of the snare wires get into the track like that. I depended on the bleed in the overheads and tome mics to give me the wires and space. It worked pretty well.The toms are Tama Starclassic with Evans EC1 batter heads. They were tuned really low.

I used two Audio Technica AT2020 condenser mics for the overheads. I used an sm57 dynamic mic for the snare. I used MXL 993 condensers for each of the toms.

All of the microphone signals were recorded with a TASCAM US1641 audio interface. I put a live feed of the dm5 and the guitar tracks to his headphones for monitoring.

The camera is a Canon t2i with a sigma 30mm f1.4 lens. I did the editing with Adobe premiere elements using a custom rendering preset

Category:

Music

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• drums
• drummer
• drumming
• double
• bass
• axis
• pedals
• ekit
• trigger
• alesis
• dm5
• mpdule
• recording
• microphones

[PearlDrumsJB]

Great drumming. But dont you think it would be easier just to have a double kick pedal? Especially if the bass drum is going to be triggered. Or do you just like the look of two bass drums. It does look pretty kool. But i like double pedals. I could not lug around a second bass drum.

[andy15m374l]

@PearlDrumsJB Two separate pedals feel exactly the same. With a double, the slave feels slightly different. It's not a big deal really. Two kicks look better on stage. Brett(the guy in the video) is actually a double pedal guy, he was just using my stuff in the studio.

[JCordoba1001]

you using the powerstroke 3 with the dot or without the dot?

impressive playing by the way

[andy15m374l]

@JCordoba1001 With the dot. The kick you hear in this video is triggered though.

[Coverguy88]

snare is really... METAL :D :D

[andy15m374l]

@Coverguy88 It's made of metal and it's more metal than metal.

[AllInDrummer]

daaaaaaayuuuum!!!! you've come a long way since your first videos :) keep up the good work.

[Enficy]

ew that snare sounds fucking horrible... great drumming though

[Drummyzable]

Nice Snare!

[jacoboscar79]

NICE!!

[plaingreymusic]

is this real drumming? no.

[PearlDrumsJB]

@andy15m374l That is true. I like the look ive never got to try the feel of two single pedals. The only thing i do know is that the only pedals the feel exactly the same are the axis double pedals. I dont have them but my friend does and ive played them and they feel exactly the same. I wish i could get some. But im stuck with the pearl eliminators.