Re-Amping bass drum

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What the OP wants to do sounds pretty crazy, though it wouldn't be if they wanted to play the whole kit through an amp/speakers if they wanted to get some sort of room sound they could blend in. Tuning is the key with a kick, plus keeping all the strokes firm and even.
 
I once saved a kik drum, not by re-amping, but by putting it through Antares' Microphone modeller. I chose a Neuman U87 as the mic. It sounded way better. But, of course the best way to do it is to get it right to begin with. It just happneded that I had a track I liked but wasn't happy with the low end of the kik.

Re-amping drums has been done, like the snare re-amping they did on this tune (second paragraph, "She Drives Me Crazy"): Recording Musician The Old Two and Four snare drum recording tuning processing compression eq
 
Oh shit not another arrow to the knee? Skyrim soldiers, why you no have better knee protection?

Also reamping is good. Before reamping you either had to buy or be fortunate enough to have access to the amp you wanted to use. With reamping and a bit of cash (not much) you can literally have whatever real amp you want.

Reamping a kick is a bit odd to me though...
 
i think you should try whatever you like. it might work. it might not. you might wind up with something really original and fun. you might wind up with something that sounds like crap. -- try to pan the kick off to the full right... i hear that's the 'wrong' way to do it as well. ;)

good on you for experimenting.

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I used to do all those things last century. It never occurred to me that people actually did it, I just thought, 'let's put the drums thru the bass amp and see what happens'. I used to sing through the bass drum before I had a reverb unit ! On their own, I thought the tracks sounded fantastic, especially the drum one, in a trashy kind of way. I used to engage the compressor button on the amp and it squished the sound of the drums. It was brilliant ~ until you brought in all the other instruments ! Then it made the drums all fluffy and floompy. It was like someone was playing a cake. Shame really.
I agree that one should get it right at source. To advise otherwise is irresponsible. But at the same time if an experiment doesn't work, what have you really lost ? It might sound great. Doing it the right way and trying different deviations from the right way sit side by side in the recording game.
 
On a serious note, I read a tape op article where the author said "hey you can has reamp snare by putting it on a small speaker and playing da snare track through said speaker into da snares!"

My reaction was pretty dumbfounded.


Also read somewhere (and heard audio clips) of someone who put a 421 on the rear of a closed back cab toward the floor and blending it with the front mic. It sounded like shit of course. haha
 
Guitargodgt said:
On a serious note, I read a tape op article where the author said "hey you can has reamp snare by putting it on a small speaker and playing da snare track through said speaker into da snares!
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That article you read might be the same or similar to the one I posted about 6 posts up.
 
RAMI said:
That article you read might be the same or similar to the one I posted about 6 posts up.
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Just out of interest, what did you make of the general article ? I thought it was kind of interesting.
 
grimtraveller said:
Just out of interest, what did you make of the general article ? I thought it was kind of interesting.
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Yeah, I thought it was cool. Hey, they got a hit sing out of it. I'm not saying they got a hit as a result of re-amping the snare, but it almost seems as though THEY believe it was a huge part of their success. So, if it worked for them, who am I to judge it. I never liked that song and didn't really notice the snare sound. But after reading the article a while back, I listened to the tune again and it's definitely a distinctive sanre sound.
 
If it sounds good, do it. I'll try all kinds of weird shit if I think I can make it work.
 
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