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Get my free drum lessons here: http://cobusmethod.com/lessons/ The motivation behind this lesson is that Jared and I wanted to give really good advice on imp...

ALL DRUMMERS SHOULD UNDERSTAND THIS (or you’re basically terrible)

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Rare And Strange Instruments. 219,922 likes · 25,142 talking about this. Strange, rare, odd, unusual, original, homemade, weird musical instruments

Looking for a unique sound? Create one! Use an old instrument in a new way Use a new instrument not the way it was intended Experiment!

The use of odd-time signatures, and frequently changing time signatures from measure to measure, came into popular Western music in the late 1800s and early 1900s through classical music pieces written by composers including Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, and others.

Audio is nothing without a source.

Enjoy these uncommonnly timed sources :)

-R

#mario kart #music trivia #time signatures

The Sonotone Voice of Music CM10A. An uncommon microphone from the past.

I own one of these interesting microphones. I bought it while eBaying drunk once with a purposely limited budget. I literally went on eBay with this in mind: “Go on eBay and find something cool for less than $35.” An auction for this thing caught my eye so I looked up the make and model and was blown away by the description, specifically the part about hanging it in a fish tank. So, $35 later, I had an interesting vintage microphone.

Here’s what I got: The thing is heavy. It is solid a definitely feels like a tool. A weapon even. The cable would be cheap crap plastic if this thing was made in now, in 2016, but it wasn’t. The plastic molded plug cable is of surprisingly excellent quality. The currently uncommon high impedance of the microphone makes it sound terrible unless you can load it worth at least 1000 ohms. I plug this thing into an LR Baggs Para Acoustic D.I. and it sounds really good with low noise and a wide frequency response but not a very deep end.

The pickup pattern is largely omnidirectional. There is definitely a node at the handle end so we’re looking at that grey area between omni and cardiod named “subcardiod”.

It is a very “hard” microphone. While it has the frequency response similar to dynamic microphones in general it acts like a condenser in the way it responds to transients. At least to my ear anyway. This is probably related to the ceramic diaphragm.

I’ve only used it a few times professionally and should get back to sticking it around things as a possible “other” mic in a host of situations. It is definitely a “fast” mic and coupled with a “fast” preamp (in my case a CAPI VP26) you get a seriously obvious transient. So in situations where you might want that I like to try this out: detailed snare drum, shakers, strummy acoustic.

I should post up some comparisons to a common microphone or two, possibly an SM57 and a km184. It’s on the ToneHunters.com to-do list for a future project.

A little fun with impulse reverb. Mohonk Skytop Tower

What’s not to like about impulse reverbs? Nothing. The world is your playground.

#firetower #mohonk #new paltz #audio #reverb #audio thing #recording #mixing #drum & bass #microtonic #impulse

LUFS, dBFS, R128, dBTP, ITU BS 1770, ATSC A/85, TT DR... WTF ?!? There are now so many ways to measure your music these days, it's not surprising that one of the most common questions...

In an ever evolving industry standards are ever changing. At this point the word “producer” means whatever you want it to and the job “arranger” is all but non-existent. ANYWAY: How loud is loud? Also, aren’t we happy the loudness wars are over? Let this article take *some of* the mystery out of mastering.

Listen to Freq Tripler Fuzz - Ridiculous Noodling Demo by Milk Pedals #np on #SoundCloud

Don’t be afraid of nasty sounds because from them come all the beautiful angles. Skip to 1:30 or so for our favorite part.

Of all the things I’ve made in the workshop, all of the software I’ve jumbled together, all the instruments I’ve frankenstiened, this blows them all away.

Bela is an open-source embedded platform for real-time, ultra-low-latency audio and sensor processing on the BeagleBone Black.

In the search for MORE MUSICAL EXPRESSION comes this little piece of wild tech.

YES I had to back it. One Bela Experimenter’s Kit please.

As if I didn’t have enough musical tech around my residence already...

What started as a quest to map the sophisticated acoustics of ancient churches could end up preserving and replicating forgotten noises from across the planet.

Ancient acoustics!

#acoustics #audio

That Recorderman Technique

I ran across this thread on reddit and spun out this rant here:

Most specifically this is my method: The first mice is placed directly over the snare not too far away, enough distance to actually get a decent balance of the kit but not so far you get lots of room (really just where it sounds good). The second mic is placed so both mics (same type/preamp) are exactly the same distance from both where the stick hits the snare and the beater hits the kick and pointed toward the same spot. The whole "use a string from beater to mic to snare top" is great. This invariably will place the second mic where the drummer will nudge it out of place with their flailing body parts. Apply shock therapy. Then hard pan and adjust your gains so the snare sounds like it's in the center. The low freqencies of the kick drum might drift off in one direction due to the room sound being more obvious to the second "over the shoulder" mic's pickup direction. Either embrace it, move your drums, or use a different technique :P Anyway, THEN you pan them inward and compress to taste. I find the hard pan to be unnatural despite being balanced. The kick mic was added to get bass whump without rumble and boom from the overheads. For a more natural sound high shelf away some rumble and fade in kick to taste. Phase rotator is worth toying with here. The snare mic was added to add crack and snap to the mix. Check phase, fade in for thwap. Since this is no longer the basis of your drum sound it open you up to try different mic techniques. George Massenburg would put a mic on the snare drum's shell. They used a funky crystal mic on Are You Experienced or something. Pick the right mics and you'll need very little else in a good room with well tuned drums and a great percussionist. The one question remaining then is when you compress as a stereo group do you add the kick and snare to that buss or have them added afterward? Or even compress the overheads, send all 4 channels to a second stereo buss and then compress that again? The answer to that is entirely room sound and arrangement dependent.

#recording #producer #drums #recorderman #manysounds #tonehunters #audioengineer #music #snaredrum #cymbals

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Dynamic Delay plugin from the plugin masters at @izotope

Free until March 10th. Sound and flexibility? Amazing.

Sitting at my new office in Georgia, I reminisce about my days running The Loft in Poughkeepsie, NY – at least what I can remember – and it puts a smile on my face. I start talking to myself out loud in my famous voice and laugh. “I can’t believe ...

We'll get to tone hunting this week for sure but FIRST everyone should soak up a little about how to keep everything running smoothly while you're out there in the tone jungle hunting your sound.

#venue etiquette

The origin of music is often related to an explosion of the cognitive capabilities of Homo sapiens 50-60,000 years ago: paintings, ornaments and burials are clear evidences from that moment. As par...

We start at the beginning, humans making noises that aren’t coming from their bodies :)

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