AnthonyCinder wrote:projectMalamute wrote: What doesn't really come across is how loud the low end is in person. Deep and loud.That's awesome. Best kind of drum sound!I find that it's sometimes hard to capture this in the studio. I have not tried the Yamaha subkick or homemade equivalent, but if any drum called for this, I'd say this one would.I put a ribbon mic about seven to ten steps away from the drum, often. I started doing this with a Fathead and then we got a Coles 4038 and now I use that. I set the mic up at about 30" to 36" from the floor and then put it through some kind of compressor at mixtime (I seldom compress going in). This tends to thicken things up considerably. We just got an Ampex MM1200 16 track 2" tape machine at the studio. At 15ips I've heard it's a low end BEAST. I think we'll be hearing a lot more beastly kick drum out of our studio in the future.

dontfeartheringo wrote:projectMalamute wrote:Not mine, belongs to a friend. This is the kit he is using for a sounds-a-whole-lot-like-Tool thing I am playing bass in.The silver sparkle rack tom and the floor tom are from a '62 Ludwig kit. The blue tom is from a '64 Slingerland. Kick is a 28" Leedy from the late 20's or early 30's. Snare is a recent Gretsch.Sounds monstrous. Really, really good. Deepest, loudest kick I've ever heard.Fuck yeah.It's a really cool drum. In clean shape but it looks like something that was used and well maintained rather than something found in a closet. The (brass?) hardware is worn like the sturdy old-school tools you would see in your grandfather's wood shop. Hip hop dude who runs a studio below us calls it 'the 808'.Sounds like this: http://soundcloud.com/robert-edge/drum-sample

AnthonyCinder wrote:projectMalamute wrote:Not mine, belongs to a friend. This is the kit he is using for a sounds-a-whole-lot-like-Tool thing I am playing bass in.The silver sparkle rack tom and the floor tom are from a '62 Ludwig kit. The blue tom is from a '64 Slingerland. Kick is a 28" Leedy from the late 20's or early 30's. Snare is a recent Gretsch.Sounds monstrous. Really, really good. Deepest, loudest kick I've ever heard.Is that one of those 28" Singerland bass drums that aren't too many inches in depth? A good friend of mine has one of those. Pain in the ass to tune properly, but sounds great if you can get it right.It's a Leedy, 14" deep. He can get it sounding pretty great, the link I posted was him just sitting down behind the kit and playing for a minute. I was mostly interested in what the room sounded like, the kit probably hadn't been touched for a week or more. What doesn't really come across is how loud the low end is in person. Deep and loud.

My trip these days is trying to do a whole band with a single stereo pair. As close to exactly what you would hear if you stood in front of the band as possible. This kick drum gives me a fighting chance to get in to the neighborhood of 'rock record' style sounds without using multi-track recordings and post processing. I've also got a pretty good room to work out of right now, which is critical.

Those are fucking insane. Would love to hear.

IMG\_0178 by mliz8998, on Flickr

i now basically own my dream kit:Gretsch Catalina Birch kit, snare is a Ludwig Acrolite (thanks for the tip, PRF!), cymbals are all Zildjian: 14 A Custom Mastersound hats, 21 Sweet Ride (on the snare side), 22 K Dark Ride (on the floor tom side).

Dovey wrote:i now basically own my dream kit:Gretsch Catalina Birch kit, snare is a Ludwig Acrolite (thanks for the tip, PRF!), cymbals are all Zildjian: 14" A Custom Mastersound hats, 21" Sweet Ride (on the snare side), 22" K Dark Ride (on the floor tom side).Feel free to move to Seattle and join Cold Lake. Practice is on Wednesday.

Not the best pic. I actually own a set. Never played though. Had to buy one when our drummer moved away and took his with him.It's a 24 Dixon set with a Mapex Armory Daisy Cutter snare.