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Old 16th November 2005   #12
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Again!...for that sound...IMO the name brand and make of the shells is not a real determining factor.
TSOP...Sigma Sound Studios (Philly)...1970's. That's the sound that comes to mind.
I remember walking into the studio's live room around 1979 or 1980, hitting the drums and thinking they sounded like crap. The heads were beat and the drums looked like tools being well used rather than pieces of polished furniture. However, in the control room they achieved the sound they were looking for. I recall telling the engineer they sounded like cardboard. Of course I was a cocky kid playing drums in a rock band at the time.
Five or six years later I was practically living in that room. Their drums were beat. I brought my Yamaha custom recording drums in. That "70's" sound was gone at that point.
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