actually he could fix it, its not hard but it takes time, some professional studios does it with shitty recordings, they just did basic stuff, mix, eq, compression and reveerb, if the engineer was kind enough he gave it volume.
@@raufmeister No...that he cant fix. Crappy cymbals sound like they do and no amount of EQ will change that. Maybe(and a big maybe) with some severe compression with a fast attack and slow release with some verb...
I am now convinced that Jared's kit sounds like coffee cans and victor just works his magic to get that to sound good.. nice work guy's.. it's not the equipment that should hold you back.
@@La_sagne you dont need the mixer, it just makes easier to move everything and mute everything especially if you work with more than 70 tracks (probably a full orchesta, some electronic music), a mid quality mics who record a sound you like is more than enough, just see reviews in different rooms not just in studios, ill just buy high quality mics in a pretty good studio with a nice sound treatment, which will be much more expensive (10k doilars if you done everything), with some good skills you can clean and make everything sounds good, how i know it? im a producer and i been cleaning vocals who came from an iphone microphone, my own vocals who are recorded in an audio technica with low volume and a lot of white noise, after you done it properly it sounds so nice and profesional, what you can not replace its a good singer, drumer, guitarrist, bassist, producer and stuff, a bad producer/audio engineer can fuck everything done properly or fix most of the thing done wrong
Love this video. Not just because you made that toy sound pro, but loved the energy and humour while filming. It certainly put a smile on my face, well done 👏 👏 👏
I bought a CB drumset for my grandson, it sounded like crap with the stock heads on it. I replaced the heads with Evan's heads and it sounded so good that I made a riser for the bass drum and played it out in a couple of small venue gigs. I feel the key is in the tuning and the choice of heads. Making it sound good with EQ is cool, but it should sound good without it first!
I would like to see more videos on mixing drums. That was amazing, the EQ is worth a video on just that part for each drum. Thank you for the great videos and you are a talented drummer and teacher.
I guess this is where the term "Polishing a TURD" comes into play. It actually did sound great after tweeking the various different components of the drum set on post recording! Nicely done.
@@peterfedi You’re not entirely wrong. First, your recording environment is more important than your mix and 2, unless your mic is truly awful, you should be able to edit the audio to a point where it’s listenable. And decent mics have become very inexpensive now. You almost have to actively try to get a bad microphone to get unfixable audio.
I first started on a tiny kit like that. It's hilariously bad now of course, but as you said, you can't discount any tool that can get a kid started on playing drums 😁
I used to be in a marching band since i was 6 until i was about 14. When i was 10 or something my younger brother got one of these toy drumkits. He never really played it but i did play it really a lot and i think that my interest in moving on to drums instead of just a snaredrum started there. Now I'm 25 and i played in several bands and played quite a lot of live shows, some small and some big ones. I still play i a band, but obviously no live shows now sadly... It's funny to look back on how it all started.
I think it would be fun for you guys to buy a really cheap drum set, guitar & bass and have yourself and some others jam with the toys, tuned of course, and see what kinda sound you guys can make with then. I'm sure we'll all be impressed. Great vids. Love the channel
When you want to have a pretty natural sound it gets difficult though. Like when you want a natural sounding kit for Jazz for example. There you would be pretty helpless with a drum kit like the one in the video.
I thoroughly enjoy it when pros take things to the extreme. Taking a crummy toy drum set and turning it into a monster sound is the best! Now if we can just get a big name to tour with that little set!
Um...wow. I'm a guitarist and trying to get my kids exposed to as many instrument types as possible. I was thinking about an old Roland electronic rig, but NOW... You guys just opened up s whole new possibility for me. That's friggin' AWESOME.
I did something similar 20yrs ago... I put some remo's on them so they could take a hit and used triggers... used my cymbals and played a show with them... it was fun!. Everyone got a good laugh out of it...
I love your end sound, but I'd love to see a junior kit version of this using sample layering and close mic cymbals to demonstrate "the next level" of turning a junior kit into a professional kit
During a sound check in the 80s the FOH Engineer commented how awesome my Superstars sounded. He said “ Bring me drums that sound like crap and I’ll make them sound good. Bring me drums that sound good and I’ll make them sound great”
OMG you are insane! Such a fun watching this, I was crying when you said “you just need to hire the sound engineer” buahahahahaa I’m getting one of these for myself!
I want to know more about how your talented engineers make all of those kits sound so good on every video, I wish you guys went into more depth about different mics and stuff. Also a video about how to set up a studio in your small rehearsal space would be cool too.
What I'd like to see is blind sound tests with cheap(er) drum sets vrs expensive ones. It's a lot different when you can't see what you're listening to.
The mixing actually surprised me with the results, especially that bass drum! I think the snare could have benefited from a bottom mic as it didn't have a super crisp response while playing the song. Plus the splash didn't fit but it's pretty much impossible to make that sound correct unless you could somehow trigger it and use a sample of a hi-hat.
Back in the 90s Carmine Appice and Edgar Winter were on KLOS 95.5 radio in Los Angeles, Mark and Brian in the morning, they played Frankenstein, Carmine played a toy/kids jr set they had in the studio, they sounded great.
Way better than I thought it would sound. Hard to believe its the same kit. When they played it the first time the sound of every drum made me laugh out loud. I have noticed that you can get away with subpar bass drums and toms and a good snare. Evans heads will make any kit sound way better.
I just use drum replacement. Works every time. With good overheads and a room mic and a halfway decent sounding kit you can do anything to a poopy kit.
So i got a kids mendini by cecilio, on marketplace for $40. Went to a drum shop bought 4 used mismatched heads. The base drum is 16 inch, the floor Tom is 12, the snare drum is 10 inches, i defeated the snare on the snare drum and use it as a rack tom. I use 3 snare stands and adjust them accordingly to match adult height, and use a full size kick pedal, and high hats etc. this could legit be a studio, small venue, or busking kit. That has roughly 75 bucks into the drums and 100 into cymbals and hardware. Each drum a can pack up inside the 16 inch base drum. Winner winner chicken dinner
Videos like this are so cool to see when items are used which are cheap & not the high quality or today's engineered products. For example. Like to see a world class tennis player use a racket from the 70's or one from a thrift store & see if they can serve a ball at 130mph(if possible) with it & their reaction to it or use a tennis ball that's 35+ years old that's seen better days. You asked about what we'd like to see? How about a cheap 60's, 70's drum set from a thrift store(if found) i.e. something from the Sears catalog. See if it can be tuned into something good.
I play in a rock band and acoustic on a child’s drum kit and it sounds great and is easy to transport in my hatchback. Yamaha HipGig Jr! ( Manu Katche)
I like videos like this because they show that things can be manageable. There is a VERY similar concept with electric guitars too. A bit of tweaking can make a walmart guitar perform miracles.
This is how they recorded "Wild Thang" from Tone Loc!! I'm gonna get some Toy drums too! ( Actually the intro fill of that song is Alex Van Halen , it's a sample taken from Jamie's Crying!).
Nice! I've got a kid's kit that also has a hat and a floor tom; it's like a "real" kit - just small! Going to see if I can get something workable out of it.
This is why you can't judge how different snares/toms and/or heads sounds on video... head comparisons for example, might sound awesome when miced up and EQ'd. Then you buy it and test it on your snare and it sounds nothing like it. It's hard to convey the true sound is what I'm trying to say. This was a fun video though and shows you that you might not need a super expensive kit for the studio... just expensive mics and sound engineer :P
Real issue is the quality of the materials. If all it takes for a kid to play is something adequate for their size, just make a drumset out of a floor tom for the kick, a 10" tom and a 12" snare. A lot expensive, i know, but you know what? It will last them forever and can still use them when they grow up.
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The main thing I learned from this video is that a world class engineer can do a lot with drums but crappy cymbals are crappy cymbals
actually he could fix it, its not hard but it takes time, some professional studios does it with shitty recordings, they just did basic stuff, mix, eq, compression and reveerb, if the engineer was kind enough he gave it volume.
it works as a super trashy splash actually lol
Cymbals are wonderful instruments aren't they?
You could also just replace everything and trigger it with samples ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@raufmeister No...that he cant fix. Crappy cymbals sound like they do and no amount of EQ will change that. Maybe(and a big maybe) with some severe compression with a fast attack and slow release with some verb...
Putting $2000 worth of microphones on a $50 drum set is the type of content I come for.
I’d say $4.000… 🤣
well, if you used cheap microphones in a professional drum set it would sound shit tho
Depends on the overheads. They didn't show what they used up there.
More like 5 $2000 mics on just the snare lol
@@Pumpkinhead9092 1.000% sure Earthworks
I am now convinced that Jared's kit sounds like coffee cans and victor just works his magic to get that to sound good.. nice work guy's.. it's not the equipment that should hold you back.
well.. the cost of those mics + a mixer/interface can buy you a pretty decent drumkit
Let's make a note that the mixer and amp rack in that studio is a mortgage, and the salary of the engineer is another mortgage every year.
@@La_sagne you dont need the mixer, it just makes easier to move everything and mute everything especially if you work with more than 70 tracks (probably a full orchesta, some electronic music), a mid quality mics who record a sound you like is more than enough, just see reviews in different rooms not just in studios, ill just buy high quality mics in a pretty good studio with a nice sound treatment, which will be much more expensive (10k doilars if you done everything), with some good skills you can clean and make everything sounds good, how i know it? im a producer and i been cleaning vocals who came from an iphone microphone, my own vocals who are recorded in an audio technica with low volume and a lot of white noise, after you done it properly it sounds so nice and profesional, what you can not replace its a good singer, drumer, guitarrist, bassist, producer and stuff, a bad producer/audio engineer can fuck everything done properly or fix most of the thing done wrong
@@raufmeister What the fuck did you even just say? 😂
@@raufmeister God...That was a painful to read...
This video is the most fun I’ve had in 3 years.
I wanna hear this with new heads.
Soooo it turns out the kit had some like proprietary tech when it came to the heads 😂 this kit wants to be it's own thing.
Love this video. Not just because you made that toy sound pro, but loved the energy and humour while filming. It certainly put a smile on my face, well done 👏 👏 👏
Thank you 🙏
This video Jared take child kit and make it professional,
Next video: Jared turns into child and plays professional kit
Hahaha now THIS is the video I want to see. Just not sure how to make it happen 🤔
@@DrumeoOfficial You just gotta believe...
That’s just every episode of drumeo
everything is low budget and fine until you need the $2000 mic and the súper edit
Haha fair enough! We did what we could to make this little kit sound like a beast 😂
@@DrumeoOfficial great job though!
Or you can just use triggers hahaha
You told the truth. I am asking them to do same thing with low budget mic with expensive hi class drums for edit doesn’t matter:)
@@bobinbud they can make the drums sounds nice and clear if the mic have enough frequencies, you can fix everything even the lack of frequencies
Entertaining... this is what RUclips was created for.
This!
A good engineer can make a toy sound better than my kit 😂
each of the mics are probably worth more than your entire kit though lmao
Ummmmmm maybe 😂
Don’t forget there’s a step you can take too. The tuned kit without mics and post-processing sounded already quite decent!
I bought a CB drumset for my grandson, it sounded like crap with the stock heads on it. I replaced the heads with Evan's heads and it sounded so good that I made a riser for the bass drum and played it out in a couple of small venue gigs. I feel the key is in the tuning and the choice of heads. Making it sound good with EQ is cool, but it should sound good without it first!
Right on the money!
Do you like Evans? I’ve been considering replacing my heads with Aquarian, but that’s just because it’s the best brand I know of
@@patrickpeters6016 buy a bunch used mismatch. Save money
Jared: "Victor I'm bleeding"
Victor: "keep going"
Jared: "Victor??!
Victor: "keep going"
Jared: "dude seriously"
Victor: "keep going"
Reminds me of the south park episode when randy is lorde, and you hear what his songs sound like before and after processing. Great stuff.
1:05 the tom sound genuinely cracked me up
it sounded kinda electronic 😂
I would like to see more videos on mixing drums. That was amazing, the EQ is worth a video on just that part for each drum. Thank you for the great videos and you are a talented drummer and teacher.
Noted!
I think all guest drummers should have to perform 1 minute on the kids drums with this treatment. Would be gold 😂
I guess this is where the term "Polishing a TURD" comes into play. It actually did sound great after tweeking the various different components of the drum set on post recording! Nicely done.
"what's your excuse?"
"I don't have high end mics😂"
anyways, cool concept!
This may be an unpopular Opinion but i think youll get 80% of the way with only 20% of the price of the mics (or even less). Just need a good Mix :P
@@peterfedi You’re not entirely wrong. First, your recording environment is more important than your mix and 2, unless your mic is truly awful, you should be able to edit the audio to a point where it’s listenable. And decent mics have become very inexpensive now. You almost have to actively try to get a bad microphone to get unfixable audio.
@@OneTeeGlory i been using the pyle pro mics for years and it gets the job done! Got the 7 piece mic set for $100
This is hands down my favourite Drumeo video, probably my favourite drum related video ever. It's so captivating and hilarious - Great work!
Wow, thanks you so much 😃
I first started on a tiny kit like that. It's hilariously bad now of course, but as you said, you can't discount any tool that can get a kid started on playing drums 😁
2:26 stops the cymbals without even playing.
Every drummer: He's talking about me
That was incredible and unbelievable.!!!!! I really enjoyed the sound quality of the playback.!!!!! The new technology can create magic.!!!!!!
So happy to hear you enjoyed it!
I used to be in a marching band since i was 6 until i was about 14.
When i was 10 or something my younger brother got one of these toy drumkits. He never really played it but i did play it really a lot and i think that my interest in moving on to drums instead of just a snaredrum started there.
Now I'm 25 and i played in several bands and played quite a lot of live shows, some small and some big ones.
I still play i a band, but obviously no live shows now sadly...
It's funny to look back on how it all started.
......That was a great , fun & entertaining "drum/mixing" (toy kit) processing experiment, I must admit! ......Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it! We had a lot of fun making this video!
@@DrumeoOfficial .....Great job guys!!!!!
I think we've all seen street performers playing amazingly on overturned plastic containers- so it's not what you play, but how you play
I think it would be fun for you guys to buy a really cheap drum set, guitar & bass and have yourself and some others jam with the toys, tuned of course, and see what kinda sound you guys can make with then. I'm sure we'll all be impressed. Great vids. Love the channel
Honestly cheap drums can be the easiest to control in the studio haha
When you want to have a pretty natural sound it gets difficult though. Like when you want a natural sounding kit for Jazz for example. There you would be pretty helpless with a drum kit like the one in the video.
Victor... you're the dude! 👍
I really enjoyed watching the process of making this Kids Kit sound, loved it!
I thoroughly enjoy it when pros take things to the extreme. Taking a crummy toy drum set and turning it into a monster sound is the best! Now if we can just get a big name to tour with that little set!
We need more of these crafty videos, I especially enjoyed the suitcase kit!
Who needs DW,Ludwig, Sonor? Lol
Um...wow.
I'm a guitarist and trying to get my kids exposed to as many instrument types as possible. I was thinking about an old Roland electronic rig, but NOW...
You guys just opened up s whole new possibility for me. That's friggin' AWESOME.
I did something similar 20yrs ago... I put some remo's on them so they could take a hit and used triggers... used my cymbals and played a show with them... it was fun!. Everyone got a good laugh out of it...
Victor has an incredible radio voice.
Haha he does doesn't he?!
He has built-in EQ and compression.
Good video guys, definitely fun and entertaining to watch and the sound man did an amazing job tweaking it to recording level ! Hilarious 😆
6:24 Say what you want about those drums, but you gotta love a kit that you can pick up in one hand!
Make a giant drum set out of a bunch of kids’ drum sets
Your a Genius.
This video was amazing, great job Drumeo! 🔥🥁🙏🏼
Thank you!!
@@DrumeoOfficial Yw! :)
I love your end sound, but I'd love to see a junior kit version of this using sample layering and close mic cymbals to demonstrate "the next level" of turning a junior kit into a professional kit
Nice to see you have fun. I started my drum experience exactly on this kind of drums.
Yes you can because the engineer can do miracles with toys if he or she is good
Oh yurrr! New Drumeo video!
U guys are the definition of awesome!
yooooo the mixing portion of this video was extremely insightful!!!!!
2:59
Oooohhh yeah, I feel some Louis Cole vibes now))))
Also, Victor KILLED IT.
Oh man. I’ve been learning from Jared’s videos for like 12 years. Glad to see he’s still going strong.
During a sound check in the 80s
the FOH Engineer commented how awesome my Superstars sounded.
He said “ Bring me drums that sound like crap and I’ll make them sound good.
Bring me drums that sound good and I’ll make them sound great”
I still use my Superstars on occasion. Great drums.
OMG you are insane! Such a fun watching this, I was crying when you said “you just need to hire the sound engineer” buahahahahaa I’m getting one of these for myself!
This hypes me up. Knowing that you can turn something cheap into something better to produce decent music.
It does come out pretty impressively!
I want to know more about how your talented engineers make all of those kits sound so good on every video, I wish you guys went into more depth about different mics and stuff.
Also a video about how to set up a studio in your small rehearsal space would be cool too.
Loved it when the drum set decided to lie down and take a nap.
Pete.... that's funny. LOL
I absolutely want to replicate the sound at 2:56! So raw!
DO THIS BUT WITH A BAND FULL OF TOY INSTRUMENTS, MAKE A TRACK WITH JUST TOY INSTRUMENTS
Why aren't we funding this
Honestly - a decent Cymbal - and I would never guess it was a childs kit!
0:50 that scream scared the shit out of me
Daaamnnn that sounded professional!! Amazing!!
I think its awesome that you got your hands on the same kit Lars used on St. ANGER
Would love to get Victor and Glenn Fricker in the same room to discuss drum recording/mixing. Would be very interesting.
I love that you guys did this!
How could someone possibly dislike this?!
I swear some people just roll through RUclips hitting the thumbs down just because it's there.
You can't imagine my face of joy when I saw the engineer making his job. Aplausos
What I'd like to see is blind sound tests with cheap(er) drum sets vrs expensive ones.
It's a lot different when you can't see what you're listening to.
The mixing actually surprised me with the results, especially that bass drum! I think the snare could have benefited from a bottom mic as it didn't have a super crisp response while playing the song. Plus the splash didn't fit but it's pretty much impossible to make that sound correct unless you could somehow trigger it and use a sample of a hi-hat.
This is actually a video showcasing Jared’s chops on anything just to flex on us lol 😂
Back in the 90s Carmine Appice and Edgar Winter were on KLOS 95.5 radio in Los Angeles, Mark and Brian in the morning, they played Frankenstein, Carmine played a toy/kids jr set they had in the studio, they sounded great.
Way better than I thought it would sound. Hard to believe its the same kit. When they played it the first time the sound of every drum made me laugh out loud. I have noticed that you can get away with subpar bass drums and toms and a good snare. Evans heads will make any kit sound way better.
Now make a plastic ukulele sound like a 90's era US BC Rich Iron bird.
This is like what Billy Cobham does to normal size drumkits. Total Domination....
I just use drum replacement. Works every time. With good overheads and a room mic and a halfway decent sounding kit you can do anything to a poopy kit.
So i got a kids mendini by cecilio, on marketplace for $40. Went to a drum shop bought 4 used mismatched heads. The base drum is 16 inch, the floor Tom is 12, the snare drum is 10 inches, i defeated the snare on the snare drum and use it as a rack tom. I use 3 snare stands and adjust them accordingly to match adult height, and use a full size kick pedal, and high hats etc. this could legit be a studio, small venue, or busking kit. That has roughly 75 bucks into the drums and 100 into cymbals and hardware. Each drum a can pack up inside the 16 inch base drum.
Winner winner chicken dinner
Plot twist: all of the background music was recorded with this drum set
Videos like this are so cool to see when items are used which are cheap & not the high quality or today's engineered products. For example. Like to see a world class tennis player use a racket from the 70's or one from a thrift store & see if they can serve a ball at 130mph(if possible) with it & their reaction to it or use a tennis ball that's 35+ years old that's seen better days.
You asked about what we'd like to see? How about a cheap 60's, 70's drum set from a thrift store(if found) i.e. something from the Sears catalog. See if it can be tuned into something good.
Pretty impressive! This video is a hoot! Just goes to show that even the most humble of surfaces can be an amazing sounding drum! :-)
I play in a rock band and acoustic on a child’s drum kit and it sounds great and is easy to transport in my hatchback. Yamaha HipGig Jr! ( Manu Katche)
OLD RUclips IS BACK!!!! This what youtube was for not those vlog shit this!!! THIS IS IT!!!
I’m seriously impressed by the tom.
I like videos like this because they show that things can be manageable. There is a VERY similar concept with electric guitars too. A bit of tweaking can make a walmart guitar perform miracles.
Literally one of the most fun videos
Thank you!! We had so much fun making this one!!
does victor have a wave of his wife saying "i love you" tattoed on his arm? this is perfect! i need that too
If you put drum triggers on it it will sound like anything you want.
mixing is so awesome to shape sound. what does the audio wav tattooed on his arm? i’m always curious when i see these
Thanks Eric! My left arm is my son, right arm is my daughter, I recorded them both saying "I love you daddy" ❤️
@@VictorGuidera very cool idea! that’s awesome
This is how they recorded "Wild Thang" from Tone Loc!! I'm gonna get some Toy drums too! ( Actually the intro fill of that song is Alex Van Halen , it's a sample taken from Jamie's Crying!).
Nice! I've got a kid's kit that also has a hat and a floor tom; it's like a "real" kit - just small! Going to see if I can get something workable out of it.
Hilarious! This was awesome.
I believe Nate Smith and the Fearless Flyers are interested in this drum kit!
Everything except for the cymbal sounds amazing!
Sounds actually great lol
Right?!?!
Hilarious! That's actually how the late great Neil Peart recorded, but he had 40 of those little kits strung together--oh, and a gong.
I had so much fun watching You going nuts on this kit at the end :D Well made video on very interesting topic Jared, thanks. Pozdro666
Well, that certainly answers the "What if?" question...well done!
This is my favorite drumeo video
Now I need this drum kit!!!
This is why you can't judge how different snares/toms and/or heads sounds on video... head comparisons for example, might sound awesome when miced up and EQ'd. Then you buy it and test it on your snare and it sounds nothing like it. It's hard to convey the true sound is what I'm trying to say.
This was a fun video though and shows you that you might not need a super expensive kit for the studio... just expensive mics and sound engineer :P
I actually used that kit (one just like it) on a gig a few weeks ago.(American Idol brand named???) was awesome !!!
Jeees.. A have a Yamaha 9000 kit. Cooooool! 😄😁
It's really fun...as a Drummer I appreciate what make me interesting as well as innovating. 💪💖
Real issue is the quality of the materials. If all it takes for a kid to play is something adequate for their size, just make a drumset out of a floor tom for the kick, a 10" tom and a 12" snare. A lot expensive, i know, but you know what? It will last them forever and can still use them when they grow up.