July 31 2013 session sample

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RetroSetup

20" Modern Essentials Crash (left) vs. 20" 602 Thin Crash (right)

RetroSetup 2 (Paiste)

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Commercial drums Finger-Leeflang

Bridge section for song.
All acoustic. Single mic on full kit, two separate takes (left/right).
Drum solo on 8" and 10" tom (single close mic), doubled.

Tribal drums

Paiste Noise Works Trash Set 16/20

HD Custom Drums walnut stave snare, medium tuning. No processing (except compression on room mic and slight compression on drum buss)

HDwalnutstave medium

10"x14" Tama Superstar tom (1980, birch), turned into snare drum.
Cut down to about 8.5" deep, recut bearing edges (45 degree/roundover), hand-filed snare beds.
DW Collectors Maple kit (13-15-16-24), Paiste Signature crashes (20" Full and Heavy Full), 15" Paiste Alpha Rock hats.
No reverb, just slight EQ and light compression. Two room mics (two Latvia Blue Baby Bottles) slammed hard with compression.

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