Best drums for recording

  • Thread starter Thread starter Nick The Man
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Best drums for recording

  • Pacific CX Maple

    Votes: 6 12.0%

  • Pacific LS Birch

    Votes: 2 4.0%

  • Tama Rockstar Mahogony?

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Premier Artist Birch

    Votes: 5 10.0%

  • Other (please specify)

    Votes: 28 56.0%
  • Total voters
    50
How much are you willing to spend on the drums? Not cymbals, hardware, ect.
 
If you go the route of Pacific, I've got an MX maple kit that I'm selling. I have no idea how I would ship it though...
 
Ok well I will alwyas go by gretsch for recoding best sound ever.
 
BING BING BING

2nd the Gretsch. maybe premiers and DWs but definitely always Gretsch.
 
Gretsch sets sound amazing on just about any style of music. I had my first experience recording a drummer who used a gretsch a few months ago, and I wanted to piss myself when I started getting sounds. I threw up the mics, and it took all of 15 minutes to get the sound I wanted. Usually it takes me about 45 minutes of moving mics and tuning to get what I want.

Yamaha and Premier also make great studio kits.
 
Just about any drums can be made to sound good in the studio provided they are tuned well and the drummer can play. The sound you hear on CD has much more to do with other variables than the drums themselves i.e., mics, effects, rooms, player, engineer, producer, other instruments in the mix, mastering, etc., etc., etc. When I was fifteen I went in the studio with a set of Tama Swingstars, these were the lowest of low end kits. To this day the drum sound on those sessions sound great. Over the years I've recorded with many high end kits with varying results, still none sound as good as those Swingstar recordings, well, that's not all together true, but none have sounded better.
 
That depends what sound you want. For a warm sound, maple is good. For sharp sound, birch. If you want Stevie Ray Vaughn sound, i'd say maple is the best in that situation. I have a Pearl Sessions in maple. There great I love them. I've heard birch is better for recording..
 
Roland's TD-20 e-kit(I know I'll catch some flak here)
You can't belive the sounds it has.
No more miking!
 
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