Jblount
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List your favorite recorded snare track of all time. Feel free to include drummer name, band name, song name, and what you loved about it.
(This was Billy's idea BTW)
(This was Billy's idea BTW)
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BillyFurnett
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John Bonham- "Dyer Maker" - Ludwig. (I think)
Other very memorable snare "Sounds" (Off the top of my head) are Spin Doctors "Two Princes" and (I can't think of the group) from the song "She drives me crazy".
Other very memorable snare "Sounds" (Off the top of my head) are Spin Doctors "Two Princes" and (I can't think of the group) from the song "She drives me crazy".
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gatorhaus
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BillyFurnett said:John Bonham- "Dyer Maker" - Ludwig. (I think)
Other very memorable snare "Sounds" (Off the top of my head) are Spin Doctors "Two Princes" and (I can't think of the group) from the song "She drives me crazy".
Wasn't that the Fine Young Cannibals
larry
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Aja - Steely Dan -- Steve Gadd on that particular cut... Rick Marotta on "Peg"...
Zappa's "Joe's Garage" -- all of Bozzio's drums on that album are killer-sounding thanks to the brilliant engineering of Joe Chiccarelli......
Zappa's "Joe's Garage" -- all of Bozzio's drums on that album are killer-sounding thanks to the brilliant engineering of Joe Chiccarelli......
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BillyFurnett
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Yes FYC! (Smack myself in the head) Thanks Larry.
I couldn't agree more on Steely Dan Bear.
I couldn't agree more on Steely Dan Bear.
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FBstdminime
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I dunno I just love the way Bruford's snare sounds on "Heart of the Sunrise."
pratt
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Blue Bear Sound said:
minor correction here...Vinnie Colaiuta actually plays the kit on Joe's Garage.
one of my favorite snare sounds has got to be Bruford's on the records 'Feels Good to Me' and 'One of a Kind' - 'Hell's Bells' and 'Beelzebub' in particular
rushfan33
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Neil Peart's snare on Signals. It's "fat" sounding but it has a very nice crisp to it as well. You could almost picture the snare mic placement when you listen to it.
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Jblount
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Mine was the wallflowers "one headlight". The first song I actually viewed the snare as an instrument. It totally made that song. Or maybe Carter on "bartender".
pratt
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rushfan33 said:
you've made me think about this and remember that Peart's snare sound on the Moving Pictures record is one of my favorites as well. I believe that they had a PZM mic taped to the front of Neil's shirt for the recording of that record in addition to whatever close mic'ing they were using.
Jblount
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Cool, interesting technique. You do get kind of a thud in your chest when you hit the snare. Never thought of that. I may have to try that.
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BillyFurnett
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Oh hell yeah Perts snare on Moving Pictures!!
On Tom Sawyer the bass and snare are so in tune with the bass line notes that it's like one instrument.
On Tom Sawyer the bass and snare are so in tune with the bass line notes that it's like one instrument.
cordura21
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Here is a very detailed article about how they got the Fine Young Cannibals' snare sound:
"I took the head off a snare drum and started whacking it with a wooden ruler, recording it through a Shure 57 microphone,” he says. “As I did that, I started twisting the hell out of the [API 550] EQ around 1 kHz on it, to the point where it was starting to sound more like a crash. I blended that with a snare I found in the Linn itself, which was a 12-bit machine, so it sounded pretty edgy to start with.” But the coup de grace for the sound was when Z pumped the processed and blended sample through an Auratone speaker set upside down atop another snare drum, which rattled the metal snares and gave the result some ambience and even more high end. The whole thing was limited slightly and then sent to a track on a roll of Ampex 456 running on a Studer A800 at 15 ips. Only a slight amount of reverb was added to the track later on. The sonic result was closer to a hollow wood block sound than any snare found on a conventional rock record, and in becoming, along with Gift’s vocals, the signature of the song, it would go on to have many lives of its own subsequent to the single’s run up the charts. "
They recorded it in Prince's studio. And btw, I love the snare sound Prince got in "Sexy M.F.".
Cheers, Andrés
"I took the head off a snare drum and started whacking it with a wooden ruler, recording it through a Shure 57 microphone,” he says. “As I did that, I started twisting the hell out of the [API 550] EQ around 1 kHz on it, to the point where it was starting to sound more like a crash. I blended that with a snare I found in the Linn itself, which was a 12-bit machine, so it sounded pretty edgy to start with.” But the coup de grace for the sound was when Z pumped the processed and blended sample through an Auratone speaker set upside down atop another snare drum, which rattled the metal snares and gave the result some ambience and even more high end. The whole thing was limited slightly and then sent to a track on a roll of Ampex 456 running on a Studer A800 at 15 ips. Only a slight amount of reverb was added to the track later on. The sonic result was closer to a hollow wood block sound than any snare found on a conventional rock record, and in becoming, along with Gift’s vocals, the signature of the song, it would go on to have many lives of its own subsequent to the single’s run up the charts. "
They recorded it in Prince's studio. And btw, I love the snare sound Prince got in "Sexy M.F.".
Cheers, Andrés
Blue Bear Sound
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Yup - you're right - I was thinking of Sheik Yerbouti!pratt said:
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SubA
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I've always liked the Police for a lot of reasons, one being Stewart Copeland's snare/playing.
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theletterq
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I can never answer a "best" or "all-time-favorite" question cause 30 seconds later I think of something else, but off the top of my head I would say all tracks on Pearl Jam "Ten" with Dave Krusen on drums (mis-hits and all!)
rushfan33
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Pratt... you're correct! He used a PZM on his chect. They thought that it would capture whatever he was hitting as he turned around the kit. I do love the snare on moving pictures as well but I think that they perfected the overall sound on Signals. Moving Pictures' snare was a nice cracky snare but Signals added a little body to it. In context, the snare fits each recording perfectly!
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Rimshot
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My favorite of Peart's recorded sound is on the "Test for Echos"
cd (also one of my favorite of their cd's and I do have them all). It's plenty fat, without dominating. Just my taste.
My taste is toward a mellower sounding snare with plenty of drumskin sound not just the wires cracking against the resonator. There are SO many good sounding recordings, but one that I've been listening to recently that I really like is Teri Lyn Carrington on her "Jazz is Spirit" cd (second piece. "Little Jump"). She plays a Yamaha.
cd (also one of my favorite of their cd's and I do have them all). It's plenty fat, without dominating. Just my taste.
My taste is toward a mellower sounding snare with plenty of drumskin sound not just the wires cracking against the resonator. There are SO many good sounding recordings, but one that I've been listening to recently that I really like is Teri Lyn Carrington on her "Jazz is Spirit" cd (second piece. "Little Jump"). She plays a Yamaha.
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BillyFurnett
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Hey Cordura21 thanks for the background info on that FYC snare. Very interesting.
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Bulls Hit
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I always like Foreigner's drummer's snare sound on Dirty White Boy. It had a kind of shredded sound to it. They probably just ran it through a hard limiter or something but it still sounds good to me today
