Name: WAR DRUMS 90BPM by thejoeallen
Duration: 29 s
Description: Recorded with vintage 15" WFL field snare, 28" 1930's French and bass drum. Hi fi recording to slot into your today's productions.

Recorded with vintage 15" WFL field snare, 28" 1930's French and bass drum. Hi fi recording to slot into your today's productions.

WAR DRUMS 90BPM

Diary: Rudy Van Gelder Jazz drum sound. We listened to John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith and talked about the shroud of secrecy surrounding the RVG sound. I had found some hypothesis online that seemed to be right but the rest was nothing more than guesses after listening to source audio. We set out to the live room (we did not A/B the records beyond this point, going for what the room is telling us) to an early '60s ludwig kit. Drums: 14x22, 9x13, 16x16, 5 1/4x14 chrome snare. Drums were tune high and with lots of resonance. Mics: Over head Brauner VM1(?) Large diaphram condenser, snare Sheopps hyper cardioid, rack tom 87 (not used here), floor 87, room Coles (mono). The over head was way up in the ceiling (the sweet spot for this sound), the floor mic was way back and the room mic was 20 ft in front of the kit, swiveled around and facing the control room glass with the protective Coles glove left on the mic to round off and muffle the sound  - a lot. NY drummer, Neil Nunziato played on this one. Mix was in mono and bussed to a Fairchild plug in and a low pass filter to make it all sound that much more vintage. Reverb (eq'd) was also added.

Recording Classic Drums-Rudy Van Gelder/Blue Note Day - 'All MICS' (click to see notes)

DRUMMER. REMOTE RECORDING, TOURS, TEACH. ZILDJIAN ARTIST 

WAR DRUMS 90BPM

thejoeallen

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