Compressor for live and recording

[ermghoti]

I mic the kick, put a 166 on it, then put a trigger on the kick, and plug the trigger onto the Gate's key input, that way the gate picks up the strike of the mallet against the head, and opens the key on the gate, and lets the audio signal through.
That way, you can set the noise gates settings for the kick drum, and you know for sure that nothing but the kick drum will open the gate.

I am so turned on right now.

 

[Tim Brown]

ok...well im convinced now...im gonna get myself a 166...

is 249.99US a good deal for a brand new one?

$250 US is about average for them, I would say.

Also, I just sawthat i didn't fully answer your question: I would use this live and in the studio. Just make sure that the gate doesn't chp off any of the kick drum - you do want the entire kick drum to pass through when recording.

Then, once you have it recorded - you can do any extra gating to pare down the kick drum to whatever you want.

If you are recording in the studio, besides this technique, build a kick drum tunnel (do a search on here - I've discussed this extensively at times) and in between that and the triggerd gating, you have all the isolation in the world for the kick drum.


Tim

 

[RVLVNGDRS]

thx for all the advice...it really helped... ......seriously