Mar 15, 2005 12:52 am "naturally the faster you play the softer the beater hits the drum"
Im assuming you are talking about the bass drum since you mentioned beater. or maybe all the drums. Either way being a metal drummer myself I'll be as nice as i can for this........
In my expirience the snare is the one that fast drummers have the most trouble keeping solid. I have had some people got from blast beat to breakdown with almost 30 dbu of fluxuation in between, to the point where the blast beat does not com through the gate before the kick or toms.
Best idea: practice hitting harder while playing fast. You dont just not get the same volume but also you dont get the same reaction out of the snare wires. also dont play so hard when you play slow. lighten it up a little.
When recording i find it really important to not smash my cymbals like i do live. The high end sticks out way more and the "washiness" is not always pleasant. plus cymbals sound like poop when compressed(usually, unless you are going for an effect)
better idea: practice more. practice technique and wrist motion. practice the up down technique for further control.
IMHO if you spent the money on mics and peamps and took the time to tune your drums why would you ever want to replace it with stupid samples?
If you really want to go that route (I dont go that route so i might not be the best advisor on the subject.) Alesis DM5 is a nifty little drum machine you could run all your tracks into and have samples be spit back out at you. i had one for a few weeks found it amusing for a little while then returned it for something else to play with that i ended up keeping. My biggest problem with it is the fact that it only has stereo outs instead of 8 seperate outs. LAME. It means i had to spend and assload of time programming it. The inputs are pressure sensative so unless you tweak every setting on every channel to submix it for the stereo out. LAME.
Some people use Drumagog (sp)I have never used it so im not sure but it seems like it would be a sample library that automates the time consuming stuff in tweaking/replacing sounds.
100% what i recomend besides hooked on phonics for myself(it's 1 am and i been up since 4 am the day before). Practice. practice. Whatever you do, DO NOT FIX IT IN THE MIX. play it right.
and if still really have to just envelope the quiet sections and bring up the volume and if the sound itself fluctuates the cut and paste samples from your own songs in place of the sour notes. (if the breakdown snare sounds good but the blast beat dont cut the 1 sound wave out of the nice sounding snare and paste it in every spot there is a crappy sounding snare)
