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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Drum sound is not only defined by tuning and playing, but also by the way the audio signals are processed. One of the best examples for this is the characteristic sound of Gated Reverb.
00:47 Drums without Gated Reverb
01:32 Gated Reverb on all drums
02:24 Gated Reverb on snare drum only
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This is why I can always tell when a band playing a mid-level venue has brought their own soundperson.
I can feel it...coming in the air tonite....oh lord....
DRIVE EASY LOVER! DRIVE!
I remember... I remember don't worry...
How could I ever forget? It's the first time... the last time we ever MET met met met met...
well, here we are living in times when they call sabian hh and hhx the 'brighter' cymbal option.. thanks, meinl
@deadend I am Rude myself, so what can I say )
@deadend Nooo. AHHH my ears. They're so bright they sound horrible. It's gotta be Ks.
@deadend I disagree. What you need to do is find a new band. 😅
@@djjazzyjeff1232 woah
Dmitry Shkolnik meinls superior
I'm not the biggest fan of gated reverb, mostly because it was so overused, but that dry sound you got... damn, that's lovely! Tight, punchy, definitely useful for some genres.
Wojtyła I agree 💯
With Phil Collins as my favorite drummer growing up, I have a special place for the gated sound.
I wouldn’t use it myself unless covering a Phil tune since it is so iconic to him.
Don't forget about Tony Thompson, particularly when he played with The Power Station! Iconic
@@bradcsuka5054 Wasn't Tony in Genesis and played drums when Phil was out front singing?
@@micahj9828 That's Chester Thompson. He was the tour drummer for Genesis for like 30 years (started in '78, I think). Tony was a member of Chic and Power Station and was a prolific session drummer. He did play with Phil during Live Aid when they both sat in to play drums during Led Zeppelin's set.
Phil Collins is often credited for the invention of the technique in 1980 on Peter Gabriel's Intruder, then In The Air Tonight, but Roger Taylor of Queen actually used it early on in 1974 on the song She Makes Me (Stormtroopers In Stilettos)
@@TheBlackQueen I've always found it hilarious that Phil Collins got his signature sound from a Peter Gabriel track.
Jeff Porcaro used a gated drum noise on Stay The Night by Chicago in 1984
Yes back in the 80's I used to have to deaden my toms with Remo pin stripe heads so gated reverb could be used. I used to tighten the bottom heads and loosen the batter heads to get the effect. The drums sounded awful to me but awesome out front of house. I was using a Pearl GLX Super Pro maple kit with deep toms. Oh how I used to love that kit! Sold it years ago and now have a Gretsch.
Yeah this sound is definitely a throwback to that era. To me it sounds like a cheap electronic kit - For some reason Journey comes to mind for me. Nowadays the opposite sound is trendy - people want that natural sustain you find in older kits.
The weird thing about gated reverb was that we were like lemmings hurdling towards a cliff about it. Everybody hated that sound, yet every studio used it. I think the reason for that is that in the 80's, the sounds of the 70's were loathed. As with every era for the last two thousand years, one era is a reaction to the preceding one, and we wanted as far away from the naturalistic "hippie aestethic" as possible. It didn't matter if it sounded good or not. One defining characteristic was the unnatural gated reverb. Another thing was applying chorus effect on distorted guitars. O the humanity.
I remember recording at one studio and the entire drumkit was individually miked, even the cymbals. No overheads and certainly no room miks. The drums themselves prepared exactly as in the video above. The room was so extremely padded with sound absorbents, you almost got dizzy being there. The reason of course to remove any ambience. Every mik was heavily gated so no bleed would occure, and then the snare, the toms and the kick were drenched in gated reverb. It sounded like shit, and we all knew it, but we went with it without questioning.
Ok bommer
really interesting to keep in mind in future productions
Yeah, it's a bit cheesy, but it also means you can put shitloads of reverb on and thus make the drums sound enormous but not have the whole drum mix lost in a sea of reverb. I like it.
Sounds great both.
great video. I love that 80s gated drum sound.
I'm a huge fan of the sound before reverb.
Awesome vid! Saves me tons of listening/trial and error and ultimately time. Thank you!
As a layman on drums, I think it creates a surreal atmosphere. Which amplifies the genre of the song. Romantic songs became more romantic, and so on. I love to hear 1980s in the dawn, the gated drums sound so warm and wrap up the rest of instruments so perfectly.
Man, what a drum sound holy jesus
Hermoso set...!!!!
That floor tom God!!!
Reverb aside, that's a killer sounding drum kit.
BRO RIGHT??
This narrators voice could use some gated reverb.
Your comment could use some gated shut the face.
Darkstar oof
Darkstar 😂😂😂
@@DigitalPraise7 GG got em
DigitalPraise7 murdered by words
Very interesting !!
the head band detail is priceless!!!!!
For anyone wanting to hear some badass gated drum sound check out the Melt album by Peter Gabriel... Phil Collins plays drums on some of the tracks and has some kickass parts!!!
Not to mention the fact that that album and the song “Intruder” specifically was literally the birth of gated reverb
Can you feel it comin’ in the air tonight? I can.
Cool sound! \m/
That floor tom is fire.
Love it
Those heads sound very good to me!
I simply love the gated reverb sound!
I wonder why did bands stop using it these days?
It sounds too 80s. It's something you'd use if you wanted to make something sound 80s. The technique will still be used but in much more subtle ways.
Because it's so cheesy. Btw mainstream pop brought back 80s sounds
Everyone can fight me, I think gated reverb is great and no other drum sound will come close. You can’t change my mind
Frida - Something Going On
Athhar3 The quintessential 80’s recording that best demonstrates this topic.
But I love Phil Collin's playing on that! Just like "In the air tonight" it adds to the sound of each song!
Yes Collins kills that drum track and its also appropriate since he was one of the 1st to use gated reverb. It became his signature sound during that period.
The Karate Kid on the skins.
Good old sound
Robert Tepper- No Easy Way Out is a good example.
Sorry, what drum heads are you useing? And what Is that dumpening system you are useing? Thanks
Those are are called remo muff'l rings. They are adhesive and you usually stick them to the underside of the batter head.
How do you only add the reverb to the snare?
The 60's-70's cardboard box
yes
@@Killenmachine05 Indeed,somebody gets it. 1970's radio friendly snare...Take out of box,place in basket of snare stand,and there you have it! Uhm,no thx,mix the fucking thing.
Interesting =)
70’s tea-towells sound :)
What ride is that?
um "reso" is short for resonant head...what is a reezo head? and for that matter what is the point of this video?
Why would you say “reezo” head when “reso” is short for resonator or resonant?
Great job fellas !!!!!! Nice sounds for sure.
I always wish that drummers would play the same thing, with dynamics, and use the whole kit in a way that we can really compare sounds before and after. But then again...they are drummers (drool). Lolololol
Who's the narrator for this
video ? Is he german ?
Job well done !
sounds swedish
Definitely German (source: I'm German)
Wasn't that Stewart Copeland's secret? Or was it something else? Just gate? Best sound in drums in the 80s in my opinion. A major factor in the Police sound.
I know his snare tone came from a notoriously high rim on the hoop, so he was constantly rimshotting it. (Some people mistakenly think he used a piccolo snare. It was actually a no-name pawnshop 14x5 brass/chrome shell with a marching snare hoop on the batter side)
I think it’s important to treat the drum sounds as much as possible, pretty much like auto-tune for people that suck at singing.
the half of the job make it the pinstripe... What's the brand of muffling?
Muff´L Control Rings from Remo : www.remo.com/products/product/muffl-control-ring/
reminds me of the beginning of Dont You Forget About Me
What's a reezo head?
What's the brand of your drum set.
it's a pearl reference pure kit, except for the snare
the snare is pearl free floating brass variety, apparently
To properly make use of this effect, you need to amputate your arm and play overly basic 4/4 patterns.
What’s the name of those heads
Jay Harris Remo Pinstripe
GoAndPractice thanx
Gotta love 80s drums!
even completely muffled and without the reverb,
the snare drum sound fatter and more alive
than the BIG FAT SNARE DRUM heads I've heard so far..
I personally think the big phat snare drum is a big phat waste of time 😂🤷🏼🤦🏼♂️
Are you playing Sledgehammer?
You got that voice that sounds like an elderly man in a young person's body
But i hear in modern days right now. Gated reverb is only use in some part of the songs. Not at all they use gated reverb in every part of the songs.
If you have a problem with your drums sounding good, we can fix that
Tom's sound like it came from starship
Eyyy
Anybody agree that they sound very clicky?
Thats Nick collins on the drums.phil collins son
that gated sound drums sound like 90's, 80's and 70's, No matter how if you find the sound of Linkin Park (Hybrid theory) sound!
Karate Kid on the drums 😂😂😂
Low Light gate on, gate off
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This is the main reason why drums sounded better in the 80s than today’s drum sound 😂
drums sound better today, recording is way cleaner and heads are more advanced
But nowadays lacks talent a lot. So it's useless even it's advanced.
The toms all sound the same almost🤣🤣 I kinda like it tho
This is what my cheap electric kit sounds like by default. It’s fine for some situations but I hate that I can’t make it sound natural >.
Nice but not quite what a gated verb sounds like on '80s records. Plus, instead of that amount of muffling, you could've taken the tom resonants out...
Reezo head
If it wasn't for Phil Collins the gated reverb wouldn't exist.
If you want to use gate reverb as an effect, then you should use some old crappy reverb unit. Preferably low bit and harsh as hell. After gating the shittyverb you are right in the 80's sound territiory. Good and detailed reverb won't work so well.
There's also plugins like Megaverb that emulate those sounds and have gates built in
Glad the 80’s are behind us.
They are also in front of us.
Ok boomer.
1:40 Pretty sure that’s Angry Chair by Alice in Chains.
Sure, it's a demonstration of the sounds, but you'd think keeping time wouldn't be a problem.
I can't tell much difference...
I need a better drum set. Terribly..
What kit you jammin on? You can still make em sound bomb!
@@dannyboi9552 right on. I been workin on that.
Pearl roadshow
You try tensioning the reso a lil bit higher than the batter heads? And tune from the kick drum and up
Head choice matters too! I like coated G2s or Hydraulics
*Phil Collins wants to know your location*
Really? Really?! You do a demonstration of gated reverb and do not, at any one point, play the icon 'In The Air Tonight' drum roll by Phil Collins? I feel insulted.
Pour some sugar on it.
Too much cymbal & snare when I’m listening for the toms
You kids have fun! I’m still diggin’ Jazz.......
The 80s was a terrible time
Ok boomer
Always Hated this sound and type of recording !!! The 1980s !!!! Ugh
Awful sounding.. and not worth the time , money and effort
Terrible sound. Not a natural sound.