Re-Amping bass drum

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Hi,
has anyone ever tried re-amping bass drum? I've got a drum sound I'm quite pleased with but the kick is lacking in punch. I was wondering if this was a possibility for making it sound better. If so, how would you go about it? I have an Ampeg BA115, Fender Blues Deluxe and a Sessionette 75. For mics I have 2 Oktava MK219s, an SM57 and an AKG D112.

Thanks
 
I think reaming is pretty cool, def better than using your DAW to get new sounds etc. I know there is a trick of putting the snare track through a gate and then putting the snare drum ontop of a combo playing the gated snare track. I would say try gating the kick track and putting that through your ampeg or perhaps a pa speaker. and put the beater side of the bass drum right up against the speaker. let me know how things work out i might wanna try this at some point.
 
Greg_L said:
Please, someone, stop the re-amping madness.
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I'm sorry that it has come to this. :D

James if you have tried all you could with microphone placement etc. and still come up short you could just sample a kick.
 
James K said:
Hi,
has anyone ever tried re-amping bass drum? I've got a drum sound I'm quite pleased with but the kick is lacking in punch. I was wondering if this was a possibility for making it sound better. If so, how would you go about it? I have an Ampeg BA115, Fender Blues Deluxe and a Sessionette 75. For mics I have 2 Oktava MK219s, an SM57 and an AKG D112.

Thanks
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Reamp a kick drum? That would infer amping it to begin with. Hmmm. Did you mean bass guitar? You are better off triggering a sample if it is a kick drum man.
 
+3 on simply using a Kick sample...
...BUT...instead of just *replacing* your recorded Kick, find a sample that has the tone you are looking for and then *layer* them together. That way, you simply use the sample to shape/add what's missing, while still keeping your original Kick dynamics/feel.
You just blend in only enough of the sample to fix what's needed, not completely replace.


I just did that with a Kick track where there wasn't enough of the beater "click"...we were in a hurry, and were switching the entire kit from left to right-handed, so didn't spend enough time on tweaking mics, and trying to EQ more "click" wasn't working for me.
Rather than re-record, I found a sample that had tons of "click"...so I will EQ out most of the rest of the sample's low-end, as my recorded Kick has plenty of punch, just not enough "click".
Works great....:)
 
JG96 said:
I think reaming is pretty cool,.
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Not as cool as taking the time to do it right to begin with.

Also, we're talking about a freaking bass drum here. Who mics a drum to run through a speaker and then mics the speaker? That's ridiculously retarded. Or worse, runs a pre-recorded drum track through a speaker to "re-amp" it. It wasn't amped to begin with.

Re-amping is the hot trend du jour these days, and people don't really know wtf they're doing or talking about. It's bad enough that people assume they're gonna have to re-amp before they even record a guitar track, so now someone is wanting to re-amp a drum. Dumb. It's gotta stop.

To the OP - use a sample.
 
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