Studio Report - Drums, Day 3

Let's get it on!

Started recording the first drumparts and since we were well prepared for the recordings it's all going "silky & smooth"! Although, there are always some parts where you have to reach deeper and that can get quite hard. Especially when you're behind the drums for 10 hours. Most common discussions during the recordings were not about "technique", "capabilities", "structure" or "difficulty" but about the right feeling off the groove. Luckely enough that's a luxury-problem we are happy to deal with.

Studio Report - Drums, Day 2

So the drums were set-up, tuned, miked and sounding great ...
and we started talking about different materials that are used during recordings to enhance the sound of a room.

To make a long story short ... we ended up placing plexi-glass plates above and behind the drums to improve the reflection of the drumsound toward the mike-set up, a wooden sub-bass boosting construction to place under the drums, corner breaking - dampening but bass boosting crates ... etc.

Holy margaritas !!! The drum-sound from hell is born !!!

Studio Report - Drums, Day 1

After taping the pilot-tracks we started creating the perfect drum sound for the new Sengir-album. The guys from Buzzville records gave us plenty of time to work on the sound, so we went all the way.
To achieve our goal we started testing all kind of drumskins at different tuning-scales. We wanted a big fat sound but with enough definition so the articulation of the drums wouldn't drown in the songs. Once tuned, we searched the sweet-spot of the room and set-up the BIG-BLACK. (... as I like to refer to my DW black velvet collector's series ).