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

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VonRocK Mon, 07/02/2007 - 00:42

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!).

anonymous Thu, 07/05/2007 - 16:35

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.