Making snare kick more ass?

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Fucking Drummer learn how to play

I know this will not win the mr. congeniality award, but when I get a guy who does that I just leave it that way and tell them to learn how to play when recording.

Here you go bonzo jr, listen to your ass shit cymbals fuck up this track and then if you hate it maybe the next time you play in the studio you will think about what you can do to make yourself play better.

Unless of course I am being paid by the hour to fix up their fuck ups, they get what they play. Life is to short to follow around amature's and try to fix up their mistakes. Life is good when someone is paying me $75.oo/hr to fix up an amature's shit ass drumming so he sounds professional. Perhaps when they get the bill they will hire a pro drummer.

Happy New Year
Phil
 
I'm with you Phil. When I see everyones nose wrinkle up like they were just served a steaming shit sandwich served in a dirty ashtray, I love to tell them I can "fix" all of that at only $75 per hour (and it'll take about 8-10 hours per song).:D
 
Re: Fucking Drummer learn how to play

philsaudio said:

Unless of course I am being paid by the hour to fix up their fuck ups, they get what they play. Life is to short to follow around amature's and try to fix up their mistakes. Life is good when someone is paying me $75.oo/hr to fix up an amature's shit ass drumming so he sounds professional. Perhaps when they get the bill they will hire a pro drummer.

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Thats just it. These guys are paying me a pretty good daily rate. It actually wasnt that big of a deal to fix it. It took me about 45 minutes. No biggie.

Unless a band is paying me to produce I usually don't tell them how to play their parts. But this was a case where I should have said, "friend, you are playing that cymbal like it is covered w/ bees you want to kill, have a heart and play your snare drum like that."

Thats kind of the rub w/ my type of studio and the clientele I get sometimes. I have a modest little project studio w/ some decent gear so I am not always getting studio savvy musicians/bands. So sometimes you have to deal w/ dum dums. I certainly am not telling you guys anything you hav'nt already learned the hard way. I'm just saying.

This kid is actually a very good and musical drummer and the records going to be pretty hot.

Anyway thanks for the help

Happy 2004

Twonky
 
phil, life's also too short to be a jerk to guys that just want to record. maybe it would be more productive to explain to him how his playing style has affected the mixing process, and thus the end product rather than telling him to "listen to [his] ass shit cymbals fuck up this track." i find i get more work when clients dont think i'm a mean spirited person.
 
holy jeez, didn't realize i was digging up such an old thread. i did a search on adk a51s LE's and this thread came up. haha... boy is MY face red.
 
Ha, this is old... oh well... and I haven't read the whole post so maybe this has been mentioned... and not having heard the snare track :confused:

here's several options

create a new snare track section by hand using created snare samples from the snare track

sample the snare and create GOGs to use on your snare track

create a trigger track by hand to trigger Drumagog
 
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