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Thanks very much! I'm really enjoying sharing it! Much more to come! best wishes, James.

Oh yes indeed!

It's really pretty close, like an inch or so, keep me posted how you get on!

Yeah that might be pretty good, the two characteristics matching up!

Pronounced "Lay-peel"

I came from exactly the same sort of thing! I got some pretty cool drum sounds! Loads of fun

yeah, a man huge influence over here, not just as an engineer, but as someone who did it in the diy fashion and operated with that ethos. Definitely missed, I'd still love to record at electrical audio at some point, I'm glad they've managed to work out how to keep that place going.

@@MAJETONE totally,thanks.

because of the lack of proximity, it would be all crack and no thunder.

coming soon! it's a decade long project of trying to make a poor mans (me) version of a neumann ku100... mike is currently v4.0 (I think) and I think I've finally got it. I will make a video in the next couple of weeks detailing it. It's basically a really, really good mic for like £200...

Sure, but is 'we' from the south?

thank you! this was its first outing with some new heads I made for it - It's a little fiddly as Trixon put this internal muffling device in it, which I'm not sure I love as it's almost too much! Thanks for the kind words, appreciated!

Pointing it at a flat surface creates a boundary mic, that's more accurately a half cardioid than omni. Couple of points to clarify: Spl doesn't exist in dynamic mics - it's governed by the preamp, but most dynamic capsules can take up to 180db before (presumably) exploding. Source: Shure website. I wanted omni not necessarily for the pickup characteristics but for the lack of proximity To try a sort of elaboration from what Albini suggested but with what I had available I have the 'bass' element or low end from the second mic, I was missing the attack/transient - which is upper mid range just because it's called a bass drum, it's not purely bass frequencies because of the closed head on the drum it's harder to achieve both transient and bass with a single mic. Not all lapel mics are that sensitive the lav Steve mentions is a Countryman isomax that can handle 150db, which would be more than adequate in this operation. Also, it's not dumb if it did what I wanted, so you know. Jog on.

@Freddy-Da-Freeloadah, The desire is to hear more of the transient/attack/hit of the beater so it's not so soft. To be even more counter-intuitive, try high-shelving the beater omni, removing the "bassy" low-end and keeping the sharper transients. Overheads and other close-mics are picking up the kick too, so high-shelving that accessory mic (on the beater) can help control the mix by not adding conflicting "character" from too many mics and their different response/delay/etc. (muddled). If it's too crisp or clicky, lower the roll-off frequency to taste, bringing those "bassy" freqs from that mic back into the mix. Or, a compressor on just that mic to keep all of the freqs during the hit then shut them down (transient shaper). @MAJETONE BTW, this sounded amazing on my new LP-UNF Kali's (my work computer speakers, I really should get back to work). I have lots of tape scars on my 57s.

@@SilentKnightProductions Thanks! I've heard loads of great stuff about the Kali speakers glad to hear its translating :)

70's Acrolite! One of the greats! I borrowed mine from Drumattic for the day as I stupidly sold the one I had years ago...

I'm not sure! This is the one I was shown back when I was an assistant and tbh I've never thought about any other way! haha!

Thinking ab it, I do it by bring the wires to only the one side of the coil while you're swapping sides each time. I wonder if you're way is better at preventing knots? Anyways, I'm excited to try out using SM's as omis!

I had it inverted - but because of the frequency differences between the front & back mic - it made more of a difference with the phase relationship of the snare bottom mic. Thanks!

Sorry, just pointing as close as I could get to where the beater strikes at like a 45 degree angle to the drum (the angle won't matter as much with omni as there's no off axis)

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LOL: It's french, for god's sake. Definitvely not pronounced "lava lear"

@@tommeke5761 I have worked with many sound recordists in film production, that is what they are called, but ok

@@tommeke5761 You're correct, but nobody where I'm from says the french pronunciation. It's only Lav and Lava-Lear mics. You'd get side-eyes for trying to be too fancy with the french pronunciation.

Noted!

''Laval-yeah'' is the correct pronunciation from a French perspective 😊

Thank you, appreciate that! I'm really trying to work on making good videos! Yes, I split it in to 3 videos the others are coming! - I was fully thinking it was going to be a quick little video and it just got longer and longer so I think it made sense to partition it... A lot of the stuff I struggled articulating is how it made the drum feel and the range - and I'm still not sure whether or not that's real or confirmation bias, but I want to be honest about that... That big snare it definitely seemed to reign it in and focus on the fundamental... but it is bloody hard being 100% objective on a drum you've had to remove heads and lugs from.

it's a virtual instrument I've spent the last few years making. You're hearing the finished sound, but the video in the background is the original sound source and recording of the sample. Thank you!

I've never heard of that album and giving it a listen! It's great, I also love that drum sound - the tape saturation as well. Thanks for sharing :)

@@MAJETONE Of course there'd be absolutely no money in selling samples with that sound, heh. But it is unique and one of the deadest tom sounds I've ever run across, which is why the 24 cotton balls made me think of it.

@@krowochron I will tackle dead drums at some point... unsurprisingly I have some thoughts and opinions haha!... I kind of love stuff like that though, everything can very easily sound the same nowadays - there's something to be said for something that very much isn't hifi.

Got that trick from Benny Greb. It works.

Hi Chris, yes it's on a separate tab down at the bottom of the gui

@@MAJETONE Thanks 🙂