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Stopping hollow kick drum sounds

Stopping hollow kick drum sounds - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Stopping hollow kick drum sounds

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- [Narrator] Check this out. (drum rhythm) What's that sound of the kick drum? You know it's got some sort of weird, ghosty hollow tone to it. When you're placing the mic inside the kick drum it's important to understand that the tone of that acoustic space that the inside of the shell and everything is. It's a small little room if you think of it that way. To illustrate this, I recorded a kick drum three different ways, always with the mic just inside the hole in the front head. First of all, we have it just open, no damping of any sort inside of the drum. You can see a placement there. Then we put in a bedsheet. We have a black bedsheet that floats around the studio there. Sometimes that's just enough a little damping to treat the acoustic space that the inside of the kick drum shell creates. And then we took this piece of foam, we've got this laying around too, it's cut just pretty tightly to fit inside of a standard kick drum. You roll it up put it in there and there it is inside…

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