Good bass drum sound

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:15 pm

Hi, im haveing trouble trying to get a clean bass drum sound and ideas on how to fix this

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:25 am

Can you explain a bit more about how your currently recording the bass drum?

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:09 pm

it starts with a well tuned drum... crap in -> crap out... what mic are you using??? what's the room like???

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:31 pm

dementedchord wrote:

it starts with a well tuned drum... crap in -> crap out... what mic are you using??? what's the room like???

the mic im using for my bass drum is The Audix fusion

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:02 pm

No - What kind of and size drum, drum heads, beater? Do you have a front head? Is there a hole in the head? Are you using any damping material? Where are you putting the mic? How big is the room? How is it treated acoustically? How does it sound?

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:31 pm

- tune drum higher
- muffle less
- don't compete for bottom end with the bass guitar.

personal taste addressed to a vague question

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:42 am

BobRogers wrote:

No - What kind of and size drum, drum heads, beater? Do you have a front head? Is there a hole in the head? Are you using any damping material? Where are you putting the mic? How big is the room? How is it treated acoustically? How does it sound?

Answer Bob's questions first.

Then, make sure you know how to tune the drum. As a drummer, I learned how to tune my bass drum from an engineer (thanks Krisjan!).

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:46 am

If you are not good at tuning yet, I really recommend a Drum Dial. It doesn't do the job for you, but it is a huge boost up the learning curve.

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:25 am

Your question is way too generic and has no detail in it to allow anyone to help. All of Bob's questions are pretinent to the solution and without them we are simply dealing with a moot point subject.

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:13 pm

Proper tuning is 75% of the sound.

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:35 pm

THeBLueROom wrote:

Proper tuning is 75% of the sound.

Agreed. But you will most always need some sort of dampening on the head that the beater makes contact with. (excluding some obvious music genres) Try less damp, try more, or even try an evens emad head, some times they are a bit dull, but work with it.

Use your ears...
1. Great sounds don't come quickly.
2. Great sounds don't come from expensive mics, its kinda a package deal.

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