which is a basic sort of thing. But my question making an album, you’re making a compliment The other thing you start seeing is people
back was, “What kind of music?” Because if to all of that noise on stage. doing those round Plexiglas things in front of
it’s Jazz I mic it differently than Pop, Rock, or
the cymbals, Drum Dots. Nobody ever says,
Classical. If it’s Jazz I’m probably not going to One of the other topics I definitely want to “Wow, the tom toms are too loud!” right? It’s
put something directly on the snare drum unless address is what I call cage free drummers always cymbals, hi hat, and maybe snare.
I know there’s a lot of brushwork. I’ll probably (laughs). How do we get them back into the The kick drum usually muddles up anyway.
just put some overheads up, and maybe one room and out of their little penalty box there? To So knocking those things down gives you the
on the kick drum, but I probably wouldn’t do me it’s like the more you’re putting that person opportunity to bring some of that up without
inside the kick drum because I don’t want the in a room, and all these Plexiglas walls do not completely destroying the drummer back there.
beater, I want the drum. So, you start thinking absorb sound, they reflect it. I talked to Chris Once it reflects off the walls the audience isn’t
about things like that. Taylor who used to do lots of tours, and he says getting killed by it, it’s the direct radiation that
never Plexiglas. Of course, he’s got hundreds is a problem to them. I know a guy at Yamaha
Another thing that matters is how big the P.A. of thousand watts PA, so he’s not having a who was the head of audio at Disney for a
and the room is. As the P.A. gets smaller the problem overcoming that volume. But he said while, and he’s a drummer. He’s got all these
stage volume is more of what the audience the biggest problem is that it turns every mic solutions, like, “Use these cymbals because
hears. You’re no longer trying to make the P.A. into a drum overhead because you just force they’ll be darker, and they won’t transmit to
an album mix, you’re trying to make the P.A. it all right back in there. So what you want to the audience quite so much”. There are certain
a compliment to whatever is coming off the do is try to get something that’s absorbing the frequencies your ear is very sensitive to, so he’s
stage and the P.A. might only be fifty percent sound, not reflecting it. That’s not going to be got different types of cymbals that would still
of what they’re hearing. So, if you look at the something you can see through, but you can feel natural to the drummer that are shyer on
EQ, the smaller the P.A. gets you might think start thinking that in the first couple feet you can the frequencies that are killing the audience. So
that the EQ looks totally wrong. Just ignore do absorption and that will cut down on what’s you do all of these little things to get to the point
how it looks, use your ears, because you’re not going out there. where you can bring all that back.
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