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23rd July 2006
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Los Angeles
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Thread Starter | Recording hand claps I need some suggestions on micing and recording hand claps. What mics and compression techniques are you guys using? |
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23rd July 2006
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| Gear addict Join Date: Aug 2005
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| Use a decent condenser in omni, and record in a space that has the type of reverberation you want the claps to have. (Big boomy clap - Big boomy space, Dry in your face clap - Dead room) Don't use compression to track the claps, and run your mic pre fairly conservatively. Keep at least 3 to 5 feet away from the mic. Any closer and the claps will sound thin. The room sound is a big part of making recorded claps sound natural, and since the attack portion of a clap is much louder than the resulting room reverberation you need to use distance to balance out these elements at the mic capsule. The best method I have found is to get a few people circled around the mic, and just clap slow quarter notes together free time. After a few seconds you will sync up, and get a few mins of tight sounding claps recorded. Then just seperate, edit, and stack the individual clap segments on seperate tracks. Pan / Mix to taste, and sample them, or fly them in on a grid. Add compression / reverb on the finished comp. Cheers. |
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24th July 2006
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Dec 2005
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Thats quality info right there! | |
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24th July 2006
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Florida
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| Thats a good advice...... |
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24th July 2006
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Jun 2006
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| yeah thats cool..for some exotic type of claps dont forget to clap with a bundle of keys or some other percusive type ish!stike |
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24th July 2006
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Los Angeles
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Thread Starter | Awesome thanks Guru! |
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24th July 2006
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta, Georgia
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| Whatever you do, record a lot of them and don't line 'em up! 
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24th July 2006
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Feb 2006
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| experiment. close. far away. compression. no compression. bathroom, dead room, big room...2 people, 10 people...whatever. ive made great clap sounds doing it many different ways and like to try new ways as much as possible. but yeah, don't get to close to the mic. |
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24th July 2006
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Colorado
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| I'm not sayin' it can't be done but..........I tried to record hand claps and used several tracks and doubled tracks etc and it still came out lame. I ended up getting a hand clap from a stock sound cd and imported it , edited and placed it where needed and added some reverb. That turned out real good. If your using a daw and can import wav files try it and see for yourself.
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24th July 2006
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Tokyo, Japan but currently in LA
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   | Go to Westlake studio's & use the bathroom where Bruce Swedien recorded handclaps for Michael Jackson!! haha...
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25th July 2006
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| Gear Head Join Date: Mar 2006
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| to get some very thick punchy claps, i like to do some tracks with clapping on the trousers. |
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25th July 2006
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| I like to boost around 200-300htz. and mix palm claps with finger in pom claps, giving you snaps and thuds, place them on multiple tracks and you got a good sound. Boosting low mids helps situations where you need to record up close... Say if you had a heavy reverb room and wanted a dead clap. Get close, add some low mid or high lows and mix the different types of clapping. |
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26th July 2006
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: PA - 724
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| A good clapper is key... |
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27th July 2006
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: May 2004 Location: New Jersey
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| leave the mic on when u take a girl home! just dont play romantic music too close to it or you will get feedback 
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27th July 2006
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28th July 2006
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1st August 2006
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: San Francisco, CA
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| I've had some success with having the clapper wear latex gloves. |
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2nd August 2006
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: L. A.-ish
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| wet the clappers hands...it gives it a nice crack! |
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