Drum Sounds Fitting Together Into Kits?

Do you guys have any special techniques you use on drum sounds to make them "fit" together. I mean I want to try and get my clean one shots to sound like I chopped them from one big break.

Like how all the drum hits from the Sing A Simple Song break sound great together.... are there ways to make a whole kit sound like that or are some drums only meant to sound good with a few other drum sounds?

My plan was to try and record my whole drum kit to tape.....

Something that may help some is a bit of reverb at the same levels on all of the drums so it sounds as if they are coming from the same place.

tommyd wrote:Something that may help some is a bit of reverb at the same levels on all of the drums so it sounds as if they are coming from the same place.

Thanks. I don't have an effect processor yet. But you just gave me another reason to get one.

maybe layer each hit with some air from a break..

my favorite technique is

re-amplification


i will take a drum sequence,
play it through a keyboard amplifier
record the amp with a good mic & preamp & compressor


sounds nice

just be picky
and use the same reverb on the snares/ toms and such
and apply compression on the final groove

Lord Toranaga wrote:my favorite technique is

re-amplification


i will take a drum sequence,
play it through a keyboard amplifier
record the amp with a good mic & preamp & compressor


sounds nice

I was thinking about this also. I was gonna post it but I was thinking there might be some obvious technical reason why it wasn't gonna work. So when you do this is it basicly like when engineers use all those different mic'ing techniques to make drums sound differently?

I just get the key of the one shots and pair them together.Although it really doesn't make that big of a difference to me.

grimaybeats555 wrote:

Lord Toranaga wrote:my favorite technique is

re-amplification


i will take a drum sequence,
play it through a keyboard amplifier
record the amp with a good mic & preamp & compressor


sounds nice

I was thinking about this also. I was gonna post it but I was thinking there might be some obvious technical reason why it wasn't gonna work. So when you do this is it basicly like when engineers use all those different mic'ing techniques to make drums sound differently?

and what kind of mic do you advise for this type of recording? i have a sure sm58, will this do?

drumtrack wrote:

grimaybeats555 wrote:

Lord Toranaga wrote:my favorite technique is

re-amplification


i will take a drum sequence,
play it through a keyboard amplifier
record the amp with a good mic & preamp & compressor


sounds nice

I was thinking about this also. I was gonna post it but I was thinking there might be some obvious technical reason why it wasn't gonna work. So when you do this is it basicly like when engineers use all those different mic'ing techniques to make drums sound differently?

and what kind of mic do you advise for this type of recording? i have a sure sm58, will this do?

I got a sm58 also...

i do wat psci said mix yor own kit layerd with the tails of a nice open break

I use an sm57, or I have a nice octava(really cheaps, but sounds nice)

any mic will work, just mess around with placement

id run it through a tube preamp. Plus layering air.