Maybe this should be in the 'Recommend a' thread if we're moving on to bass cabs

Go to setup for me is SM91 and M88 inside, Wunder CM7 FET about a foot out from the resonant head. I'll typically abuse the M88 with aggressive EQ and compression for dense wall-of-sound type mixes and leave the others alone, with maybe the exception of some tight Q low-mid on the CM7, depending on how it's relating to the M88. Then it's as simple as turning the 91 up for snap, CM7 up for boom.

Redline wrote:Just throw a Shure SM57 in there over the blanket and the 20 lb. free weight.If we're going with hammers like that I'd much rather use an EV RE15. I wanted a 70's kick sound on a demo I engineered for my weed guy, so I threw one in the hole on the blanket that lives in the bass drum. The diaphragm was about 6 inches away from the beater head, and angled slightly up. It definitely gives me the "punching a cardboard box" tone I as looking for. Here is a clip of the raw track. https://app.box.com/s/sot11i8vb81xoze9cnb1kndaqrhf5k8oSounds thin but there's so much headroom to add lows. Here it is with EQ, full kit and guitar https://app.box.com/s/cf87pkmiw9d6i76yxd00yokwhgponxv6(overheads are a pair of Cascade Fathead ribbon mics, snare is the nasty ol' SM57)

Boombats wrote:If we're going with hammers like that I'd much rather use an EV RE15. I wanted a 70's kick sound on a demo I engineered for my weed guy, so I threw one in the hole on the blanket that lives in the bass drum. The diaphragm was about 6 inches away from the beater head, and angled slightly up. It definitely gives me the "punching a cardboard box" tone I as looking for. Here is a clip of the raw track. https://app.box.com/s/sot11i8vb81xoze9cnb1kndaqrhf5k8oSounds thin but there's so much headroom to add lows. Here it is with EQ, full kit and guitar https://app.box.com/s/cf87pkmiw9d6i76yxd00yokwhgponxv6(overheads are a pair of Cascade Fathead ribbon mics, snare is the nasty ol' SM57)Nice work, nailed that 70's sound. Totally warm and listenable.I wish I did more stuff where the drums can be small.

Audio-Technica ATM450?

Thanks folks! I really love the RE15. I'd like to do an album with like a dozen of them and nothing else. Pro Tip: you can get interesting and useful sounds by pointing the side vent thing at the sound source. But this is wayyyy off topic!

Boombats wrote:Thanks folks! I really love the RE15. I'd like to do an album with like a dozen of them and nothing else. Pro Tip: you can get interesting and useful sounds by pointing the side vent thing at the sound source. But this is wayyyy off topic!I'm surprised this tread lasted three pages. It's okay, the original discussion is able to continue. I think.

Boombats wrote:Redline wrote:Just throw a Shure SM57 in there over the blanket and the 20 lb. free weight.If we're going with hammers like that I'd much rather use an EV RE15. I wanted a 70's kick sound on a demo I engineered for my weed guy, so I threw one in the hole on the blanket that lives in the bass drum. The diaphragm was about 6 inches away from the beater head, and angled slightly up. It definitely gives me the "punching a cardboard box" tone I as looking for. Here is a clip of the raw track. https://app.box.com/s/sot11i8vb81xoze9cnb1kndaqrhf5k8oSounds thin but there's so much headroom to add lows. Here it is with EQ, full kit and guitar https://app.box.com/s/cf87pkmiw9d6i76yxd00yokwhgponxv6(overheads are a pair of Cascade Fathead ribbon mics, snare is the nasty ol' SM57)That sounds good.I have an Audio-Technica PRO 25ax for the bass drum and a pair of Astatic CTM 92 Electret condenser cardioid mics for overheads. That's all I use, it's just for demos anyway (or the lo-fi space band).

I too like Boombats' drum sound there. Over the last 7-8 years I've been more into 80s post punk drum sounds where stuff tended to be less live. I think for a while I went down that road where I thought having big open sounds was necessarily better, but of course it's ultimately very contextual.

Cool, what did you use on the kick?