Reamping, yay or nay?

[Benny Basco]

I've used this technique for bass and guitars, but a friend said I should try it for getting a natural reverb with a snare/overheads. I know reamping can cause a mix to be not as tight, due to the delay. But, delay isn't to hard to compensate after you nail down how long it is. Anyways, anybody try this ever?





Donny, you're out of your element here!

 

[faderbug]

try and let us know!

 

[Farview]

I've used this technique for bass and guitars, but a friend said I should try it for getting a natural reverb with a snare/overheads. I know reamping can cause a mix to be not as tight, due to the delay. But, delay isn't to hard to compensate after you nail down how long it is. Anyways, anybody try this ever?!

What exactly are you doing with the snare and the overheads? How would you reamp a snare?

 

[masteringhouse]

By feeding the snare, overheads, etc, out to a pair of speakers and mic the room?

If this is what you mean by re-amping drums yes I've done it many times. Sounds great in a great room. You can also change the distance of the mic to get various delays this way.

If you mean running a snare track to something like an auratone speaker and using it to "hit" the snare, no haven't done that yet, I would rather have someone just hit the snare with a stick.

 

[mattamatta]

Although I'm sure he's talking about just using the room as a natural reverb chamber, I heard a story about recording drums from a friend of mine.

He had a recording class a while back, and said that they were in some studio doing a session where the drummer just could not let the sticks bounce off the head, and they would stay on it after hitting and dampen all the life out of the recording.

So after recording, they set up some speakers on the drumset, and played back, so the sound from the speakers would cause the heads to resonate, and re-mic'd that to add some resonance and ring to it that was missing before.

Pretty neat idea.

 

[Alexbt]

Well, it could also be used to try and get some kind of live feel to it--get the recording to sound like the band is in the same room as the set.