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Custom samples and creations by James Yates
Custom samples and creations by James Yates
Bass drums are bassy, the mighty Ludwig Acrolite and 57s on everything! || answering comments part 1
I've had a bit of an influx of comments and questions - some required a bit more of a conversation, some were a bit rude... lots were lovely. Thanks very much to all!
I reference the following video:
ruclips.net/video/bsfZSwZ26ZI/видео.htmlsi=5VSPx2n7rWiclsf3
Most of the comments/questions in this video come from RUclips or instagram.
My favourite studio: www.otterheadstudios.com
Check out samples & sign up to the mailing list here:
majetone.com
I reference the following video:
ruclips.net/video/bsfZSwZ26ZI/видео.htmlsi=5VSPx2n7rWiclsf3
Most of the comments/questions in this video come from RUclips or instagram.
My favourite studio: www.otterheadstudios.com
Check out samples & sign up to the mailing list here:
majetone.com
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What do tonewings do to drums?
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Part 2: I was recently perusing the internet and came across a product called 'tonewings' - I was curious and contacted the manufacturer and explained all the deep dives into stuff I'd been doing, they kindly sent a bunch out for me to try. The testing didn't really go to plan and I ended up doing it twice - I thought I'd separate it out in to two sections - there is some stuff gleamed from the...
Out and About Ep1 Drumattic
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I'm often out and about to different places so I thought I'd try and start documenting my adventures, no man is an island after all. First up its Drumattic in Frome, a lot of this should be familiar as it's in a lot of my videos. But there's so much more - a workshop, a shop, rentals - the lot. All run by Tristan. www.drum-attic.co.uk majetone.com
The omni mic hiding in plain sight
Просмотров 19 тыс.Месяц назад
So... I posted about this on instagram and inevitably was asked for an A/B - I didn't think that totally made sense as in isolation it sounds pretty dreadful, but it's mainly being used for a purpose here. I thought I'd give a bit more context... Recorded at www.drum-attic.co.uk Me: majetone.com Steve Albini Video: ruclips.net/video/kmP9z-xTRz0/видео.htmlsi=zUb_lvuVjsVBjtqE
Adding mass to your drum shell (Part 1 of 3)
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I was recently perusing the internet and came across a product called 'tonewings' - I was curious and contacted the manufacturer and explained all the deep dives into stuff I'd been doing, they kindly sent a bunch out for me to try. The testing didn't really go to plan and I ended up doing it twice - I thought I'd separate it out in to two sections - there is some stuff gleamed from these exper...
How to export sessions from Pro Tools to Reaper
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Possibly a niche use case... a lot of my libraries have been complete pro tools productions - but at some point in 2022 I noticed PT changed how it did exports - frustratingly just as I was working on my upcoming release. Pt always used to export things in timeline order, I had a system that had been flawless for a decade - but for some reason, that changed. As you can imagine with 1.2 million ...
Ep 6 Cotton Balls in Floor Toms
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This time I'm looking at cotton balls in the drum - never tried it before - It's pretty great - you attenuate the sustain without affecting the frequency response of the drum, unlike any other muffling. Sign up to the mailing list here: majetone.com I'm parking the idea of patreon atm so if you want the separate files, shoot me a message or drop a comment and I'll sort something out!
Which is better? Hanging Bark or Bubble Wrap inside a drum
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Which is better? Hanging Bark or Bubble Wrap inside a drum
Decoupling floor toms for more low end?
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Decoupling floor toms for more low end?
What do Yamaha wood hoops do to a drum?
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What do Yamaha wood hoops do to a drum?
Drum replacing a trip down memory lane... with slate trigger
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Drum replacing a trip down memory lane... with slate trigger
Dream Kit : One Shots - Volume 1 - WALKTHROUGH
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Dream Kit : One Shots - Volume 1 - WALKTHROUGH
DREAM KIT : ONE SHOTS - VOLUME 1 - Majetone Drum Library
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DREAM KIT : ONE SHOTS - VOLUME 1 - Majetone Drum Library
Extended Glockenspiel | Sample Instrument
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Extended Glockenspiel | Sample Instrument
Majetone - Extended Glockenspiel Walkthrough
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Majetone - Extended Glockenspiel Walkthrough
Dynamic mics have no SPL? That's not correct, they just have a higher maximum SPL rating
Covering the rejection ports on any cardioid mic it turns it into an omnidirectional mic.
Closest to french would sound more like : Lava-Lee-hey
Noooice, noooice noooice. Didn't know you could turn a 57 into an omni at all! Thanks man!
@4:36 IDK. Sounds like the Kick is landing in the same frequency as the bass. I can really hear the 180hz-200hz. I think you might have the frequencies class between the Kick and Bass. You didn't have a total mix with just the kick, so I don't know.
If you want to sound a bit pretentious, you can pronounce it the French way: la-vali-[e]. But in France we call it a micro-cravatte (tie microphone) or a ‘lav’. Honestly, I didn't think a little electret could handle the acoustic pressure of a kick drum or anything more powerful than a classical guitar. I don't think I'd risk it with a DPA.
no noticeable difference. looking at the wave file.
Thank you for pronouncing Lavalier correctly.
i find it pretty funny that a bass amp made a brief cameo in the end, mostly because i just bought the same one and i've never even heard of those before and now i see them everywhere.
D112? Im out. Bye.
Cool vid! Nice natural drum sound overall!
Very interesting. I enjoy your geeking out.
Thanks very much! I'm really enjoying sharing it! Much more to come! best wishes, James.
Juggs all the way.....
Oh yes indeed!
How far from the beater did you place the near end of the mic? I may try this in a live situation.
It's really pretty close, like an inch or so, keep me posted how you get on!
I say lavaliere the same way you did in the video. I love the trick with the SM57. I'm gonna try it paired with a Sub-Kick as well.
Yeah that might be pretty good, the two characteristics matching up!
dynamic mics do have a maximum spl and if exceeded, the mic will distort. I might try this with a crummy lav sometime though to see for myself!
Lavalier? Just say lapel - problem solved!
Pronounced "Lay-peel"
Very nice.
I once used a goose-neck computer mic to record a drum kit, as that's all I had. Recorded the entire kit, experimenting with placement within the room, into a minidisc player. Added eq before sending into the cheapest ever tape 4 track, and it sounded surprisingly good mixed with all the other instruments.
I came from exactly the same sort of thing! I got some pretty cool drum sounds! Loads of fun
Remember to flip the polarity on the AKG or even just play with it and set it so whatever gives you the most low end!
I work in film production: we call it a "lahv-ah-leir" mic.
It was interesting!
we miss you steve
yeah, a man huge influence over here, not just as an engineer, but as someone who did it in the diy fashion and operated with that ethos. Definitely missed, I'd still love to record at electrical audio at some point, I'm glad they've managed to work out how to keep that place going.
@@MAJETONE totally,thanks.
Imagine recording a fart with this setup
because of the lack of proximity, it would be all crack and no thunder.
there is allways something to learn. next time i m confronted with a closed base i remember you. THANK YOU
I want to know more about Mike.
coming soon! it's a decade long project of trying to make a poor mans (me) version of a neumann ku100... mike is currently v4.0 (I think) and I think I've finally got it. I will make a video in the next couple of weeks detailing it. It's basically a really, really good mic for like £200...
Former theatre kid here: Wealways pronounced it Lav-a-Leer
Sure, but is 'we' from the south?
I did like it, and I subscribed. Got a nice tip and dug your style sir!
I really like it with your very well tuned bass-drum. Realy nice drum kit.
thank you! this was its first outing with some new heads I made for it - It's a little fiddly as Trixon put this internal muffling device in it, which I'm not sure I love as it's almost too much! Thanks for the kind words, appreciated!
What a freaky trick! Thanks!!
So you transformed it into an omni to remove the proximity effect when putting up close the bass-drum head.... nice!
fucking gamechanger
DIY Omni mic... Q: How? A: Easy! Point the SM57 at flat surface, or a wall! (or ceiling...) But my idea is Kind of dumb... Tape around the neck of the mic? Interesting... Why did it have to be omni? yeah SPL=0, but you just wanted the bass drum... And the tape around the neck of the mic made it tinny... Bass drums are BASSY! (Is bassy even a word?) And aren't you going to get some random noise from the BD pedal in there with an omni? ? ?!?!?! IMHO I like using lapel mics as omnis, but they are kind of sensitive: SPL=ALOT!!! (I should look it up, all I know is a preacher who shouts can't have the lapel mic too close to his mouth...)
Pointing it at a flat surface creates a boundary mic, that's more accurately a half cardioid than omni. Couple of points to clarify: Spl doesn't exist in dynamic mics - it's governed by the preamp, but most dynamic capsules can take up to 180db before (presumably) exploding. Source: Shure website. I wanted omni not necessarily for the pickup characteristics but for the lack of proximity To try a sort of elaboration from what Albini suggested but with what I had available I have the 'bass' element or low end from the second mic, I was missing the attack/transient - which is upper mid range just because it's called a bass drum, it's not purely bass frequencies because of the closed head on the drum it's harder to achieve both transient and bass with a single mic. Not all lapel mics are that sensitive the lav Steve mentions is a Countryman isomax that can handle 150db, which would be more than adequate in this operation. Also, it's not dumb if it did what I wanted, so you know. Jog on.
@Freddy-Da-Freeloadah, The desire is to hear more of the transient/attack/hit of the beater so it's not so soft. To be even more counter-intuitive, try high-shelving the beater omni, removing the "bassy" low-end and keeping the sharper transients. Overheads and other close-mics are picking up the kick too, so high-shelving that accessory mic (on the beater) can help control the mix by not adding conflicting "character" from too many mics and their different response/delay/etc. (muddled). If it's too crisp or clicky, lower the roll-off frequency to taste, bringing those "bassy" freqs from that mic back into the mix. Or, a compressor on just that mic to keep all of the freqs during the hit then shut them down (transient shaper). @MAJETONE BTW, this sounded amazing on my new LP-UNF Kali's (my work computer speakers, I really should get back to work). I have lots of tape scars on my 57s.
@@SilentKnightProductions Thanks! I've heard loads of great stuff about the Kali speakers glad to hear its translating :)
I think i have the same ludwig snare and I love it
70's Acrolite! One of the greats! I borrowed mine from Drumattic for the day as I stupidly sold the one I had years ago...
Very interesting, thanks for the great vid! 5:27 Wait, am I doing the over-under wrapping technique wrong? Or is this a different coiling technique?
I'm not sure! This is the one I was shown back when I was an assistant and tbh I've never thought about any other way! haha!
Thinking ab it, I do it by bring the wires to only the one side of the coil while you're swapping sides each time. I wonder if you're way is better at preventing knots? Anyways, I'm excited to try out using SM's as omis!
Stellar work here. Thank you for sharing this information.
this is sick thanks :))
This was a great video!! Subscribed instantly. Love this
no mention of polarity on the front and back.. nice groove
I had it inverted - but because of the frequency differences between the front & back mic - it made more of a difference with the phase relationship of the snare bottom mic. Thanks!
great content. Thankyou
Where/how did you place the 57 on the beater side?
Sorry, just pointing as close as I could get to where the beater strikes at like a 45 degree angle to the drum (the angle won't matter as much with omni as there's no off axis)
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1:19 Lava-LEAR
LOL: It's french, for god's sake. Definitvely not pronounced "lava lear"
@@tommeke5761 I have worked with many sound recordists in film production, that is what they are called, but ok
@@tommeke5761 You're correct, but nobody where I'm from says the french pronunciation. It's only Lav and Lava-Lear mics. You'd get side-eyes for trying to be too fancy with the french pronunciation.
Noted!
''Laval-yeah'' is the correct pronunciation from a French perspective 😊
Interesting stuff, don't know if I came away with more understanding but I've never considered lowering or attenuating the resonance of a shell before. I'd be interested to hear it with the shell close miced before and after in succession as well. Cool video, you're good at this.
Thank you, appreciate that! I'm really trying to work on making good videos! Yes, I split it in to 3 videos the others are coming! - I was fully thinking it was going to be a quick little video and it just got longer and longer so I think it made sense to partition it... A lot of the stuff I struggled articulating is how it made the drum feel and the range - and I'm still not sure whether or not that's real or confirmation bias, but I want to be honest about that... That big snare it definitely seemed to reign it in and focus on the fundamental... but it is bloody hard being 100% objective on a drum you've had to remove heads and lugs from.
omg this is beautiful,,, I’d love to know what is going on here…
it's a virtual instrument I've spent the last few years making. You're hearing the finished sound, but the video in the background is the original sound source and recording of the sample. Thank you!
I like that too... but I like the "potatoes falling down wooden stairs" drum sound on the Kim Jung Mi album, so maybe my preferences aren't anything to go by.
I've never heard of that album and giving it a listen! It's great, I also love that drum sound - the tape saturation as well. Thanks for sharing :)
@@MAJETONE Of course there'd be absolutely no money in selling samples with that sound, heh. But it is unique and one of the deadest tom sounds I've ever run across, which is why the 24 cotton balls made me think of it.
@@krowochron I will tackle dead drums at some point... unsurprisingly I have some thoughts and opinions haha!... I kind of love stuff like that though, everything can very easily sound the same nowadays - there's something to be said for something that very much isn't hifi.
Got that trick from Benny Greb. It works.
Is there a way to use multiple outputs from the plugin on ProTools? Like kick on one channel, snare on another, and so on?
Hi Chris, yes it's on a separate tab down at the bottom of the gui
@@MAJETONE Thanks 🙂
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James this is great! Please can you not add music (pads... whatever!) when you talk, it distracts.. cheers. Keeps up the great work, its all very scientific and opens up excellent questions
Yeah of course! That makes life simpler :)
@@MAJETONE really liking the glockenspiel, Epat Dniwer and the jazzman instruments. Looking forward to the next one.
@@SpencerDeWing Cheers! It's coming very, very soon... although just as I think I'm done there's another hurdle to jump... it'll be worth it AND worth doing properly as well.
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