Favourite Drum Mix?

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Sure, some modern drums sound ridiculous - particularly in metal. Metal drums are stupid. Typewriter kick drums and trash can lid snares. Retarded. But what the 70's honks don't get is that drums in real life don't sound as bad as they do on those records. I think some of the early 90's drum recordings are fantastic. They sound like drums, and you can hear them in the mix. They're not dead and buried like that garbage shit in the 70's.
 
Greg_L said:
Sure, some modern drums sound ridiculous - particularly in metal. Metal drums are stupid. Typewriter kick drums and trash can lid snares. Retarded. But what the 70's honks don't get is that drums in real life don't sound as bad as they do on those records. I think some of the early 90's drum recordings are fantastic. They sound like drums, and you can hear them in the mix. They're not dead and buried like that garbage shit in the 70's.
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I do think the 70's guys knew how a drumset sounded in real life, they just chose to have it sounding like they did.

I dont like metal drums either, I dont like the drums in moderen prog they are to clean and clinical, its almost like listning to a drum machine.

something about the 70 soundscape just sits very good with me, and not all bands have burried drums, some do because the drums played a different role in the soundscape.


I'd pick 90's drum recordings over early 60 and 80's any day though.
 
Greg_L said:
So should you. In fact, if it's important, you need it way more than I do.
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I have to much of it, I'm willing to share some with the less fortunate.

Should I mail the ducktape and pillows to the same address as last time:D
 
JG96 said:
I agree that drums really started to sound much better on recordings in the 90's.
Albums with great sounding drums:
Blood Sugar Sex Magic-RHCP
In Utero-Nirvana
You'd Prefer an Astronot-Hum
Red Yellow & Blue-Born Ruffians
Pinkerton-Weezer
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BOOM! Don't know about Hum and Born Ruffians, but In Utero and Pinkerton are two of my favorite drum sounds, glad I'm not alone.
 
Hmmm. With regard to drum mixing, I really like 'You Could be Mine' by G'n'R. There's some slap-back or something of that nature on the Toms that sounds really interesting, 80's toms but not conventionally so. Otherwise, love the drums on 'Mojo Pin' by Jeff Buckley; no particular reason, they just seem to suit the song. Also liked everything on 'Nevermind' and 'The Colour and The Shape'.
 
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Fugazi - In on the Kill Taker
Led Zeppelin II
Ramones - Mondo Bizzarro
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Green Day - their first album

Lot of different styles listed here. I can see how some would say older recordings have generally crappy drum sounds. Early Deep Purple has some of the shittiest recordings ever relative to how good the band was. WTF were they thinking?

That said, I love the old Bonham sounds. I like Ringo too. His beats always fit the song like a glove and he had a great sense for originality. IMO, some newer drums are so polished as to be inhuman. But some of them sound freakin incredible.
 
I quite like the way Joey Jordinsons kit sounds kind of dirty.

I know what people are getting at with metal drums, but i think it can be done well and can be done shit like most other things. Good example of shit for me would be As i lay dyings first album. Example of good would be August Burns Red - Messengers. Its still crushed to fuck, but nothing like Metallicas Death Magnetic, and at least the drummer can manage more than basic rock, basic rock double speed, and a snare fill, unlike lars. I like Metallica, i hate lars drumming. I liken the gur from ABR to whatshisface from Arch Enemy, but i find AE's drums boring as fuck.

I've always liked the drum sound on Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance. What else. I really like the snare sound on the new Paramore album, although the cymbals have been mixed too low for my liking, too much of a Kick+Snare pop mix.

I've never understood people who say drums sound best on old records. To me they usually sound dull, and totally without power. I don't get why this can be a good thing, its not what you experience of drums when you go to a gig.
 
chamelious said:
I've never understood people who say drums sound best on old records. To me they usually sound dull, and totally without power. I don't get why this can be a good thing, its not what you experience of drums when you go to a gig.
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I totally agree. Those people are mostly stuck on nostalgia.
 
chamelious said:
... I've never understood people who say drums sound best on old records. To me they usually sound dull, and totally without power. I don't get why this can be a good thing, its not what you experience of drums when you go to a gig.
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I kept on seeing this thread and started to think about my favorite drum mixes... I'm not sure I have any. :(

There's songs that I like the drums on but the comment "its not what you experience of drums when you go to a gig" pretty much sums it up. To me recorded anything is not as good as live. Cymbals, especially the old K's that I'm fond of, simply can't be recorded that I know of, and sound like they do live. I've got Neumanns and they sound great but it's always way different (and less) than what I hear live.

Recording anything seems like taking a picture of the Grand Canyon, it can get close but real life will always rule, and it really should. In a way recording is to live what porno is to live, second best, at least that's where I'm at this week.

Just 1 guy out of 6.5 billion's opinion mind you!. :)
 
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