| kickin it
I use pro tools for all my trackin. From my experience, the better the pre amp the better the sound. I was using the pre's on my control 24 for all my drums. I started using my Red 1 for my kick mic's and snare and it made a huge difference. Much more thicker sounding, alot more to work with. I was using the same mic's that i was using with the control 24, that being an Audix D6 bout 1 inch from the beater and a Shure Beta 52 just off-axis on the outside edge of the kick. I usually have the guys or gals take off the front head and I deaden up the kick pretty good. I get more of an attack from the Audix and more body from the Shure. When mixing i use ChannelStrip for gating and compression, then eq with the digi eq or mcdsp stuff. Rage's kick's sound good and was most likely cut to 24 track, and if you worked with 24 track you understand how tight and thick sounding a kick can record. As for replacement, never had too, untill the world of punk music invaded my studio. I'm looking to get drum triggers and go that route, just seems alot easier to me. I never could get Sound Replacer to work well and im more of a hardware guy.
Hector Ramirez
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