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Recreating the Iconic Drums of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2 | What's That Sound? EP 41
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- One of the few songs that starts with a drum beat that is immediately recognizable, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and it's room-y, marching drums are iconic. In a time of heavy processing and gated reverb, U2 (and producer Steve Lillywhite) went for a natural, room-mic-heavy sound that feels timeless today. How close to did Jessica & Noam get? Let us know.
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0:00 - Intro
0:46 - The Drums
1:35 - Mixing Overview
3:35 - The Room Mics
8:07 - The Overheads
8:56 - The Kick
9:40 - The Snare
10:29 - The Final Mix
The backing guitars make this sound like Saturday Jolly-good Saturday😂.
This is one of the best videos in this series, because it was SO close to the actual sound of the U2 record, and used the correct ratio of room-to-close-mic combination.
When the U2 record came out, Steve Lillywhite was interviewed, and he stated that the band still wanted the huge drum sound that he was famous for getting (see XTC/Big Country/etc), but something of a “rougher” texture. So he put the drum kit in the reception area of the studio (with painted cinder block walls) and used the sound of the room to its full advantage. So great work on sussing out the technique Lillywhite employed on the U2 record.
I don’t care what the person above said, the drum sound of “Sunday Bloody Sunday” is most certainly iconic. From the first note, you immediately know it’s U2 from the “War” album. I was 16 when this came out, and most other recorded drum sounds were NOTHING like this particular record.
“War” was, to me, the record that broke the band in the US because it sounded like a “guitars and drums in the garage” record, more so than U2’s contemporaries.
Steve Lillywhite was at the helm for a bunch of great recordings in that era. I'm a big fan of what he did with Big Country back then.
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For me, the most useful part about this series has been the free downloads of all the drum samples.
Oh, that makes me want so hard to see a video about the drums of "The Unforgettable Fire"!
The versatility of the Yamaha Jimmy Chamberlin snare is great!
That snare sound is fantastic and very close to the original
Would love to hear some White Stripes drum sounds! Specifically something like "My Doorbell" or "Ball and Biscuit" with heaps of messy room and low end, but somehow paradoxically controlled. Something about that sound with with Meg's playing is so great.
Like so many of U2's songs, it's a beautiful song with a beautiful message. Helps that the drum tones were sick.
Great drumming by Larry... Love it ! ❤
A video on the drums of Murmur by R.E.M. would be amazing
the talk about phase and frequency was really interesting/useful
Definitely one of my favorites in this series so far. I really liked the info. on focusing with room mics (and overheads), as it’s something I’ve been playing around with. Great job everybody.
Perfect, such an iconic riff!
Love hearing him talk about phase issues
this track is a rattle snake! they deserve their legacy with tracks like this
Yall are my favorites ❤️❤️❤️
One thing it's missing is the sound of the floor tom ringing sympathetically with the kick drum hits. Pretty sure that's what you can hear on the left in the original.
i always think you hit the drums exacly hard enough :)
'Song 2' by Blur
'Pure Morning' by Placebo
Excellent choice! Lay Your Hands On Me by Peter Gabriel next pleeeeease :)
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Please do Up On Cripple Creek by The Band next!!
please do a video about Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures
Damn, you guys use Zildjian "Sweet" cymbals in every single one of these videos lol
What is that digital tablet looking thing near Jessica's let shoulder? Is that a monitoring device of some sort?
It looks like a hearback system, which is a personal monitor mixer. If it’s not hearback, then it’s another company.
PLEASE DO THE DRUM SOUND FROM THE CURES 17 SECONDS
How about trying Queensryche “Eyes of a Stranger”
Nice. Dire Straits 1978, please....
no idea what the guitar player is doing lmao but you guys absolutely nailed that drum sound
Playing the riff wrong so that the video doesn’t get taken down
Did yous not recreate the haircut as well?
Maybe next time
@@Reverb Ok Dad.
Bring the room mics up a tad more and you’ve absolutely nailed it
Dj Shadow
I don't know why you bother with this series when everyone in the comments section knows better :|
Love this
Only U2 song I enjoy.
Might wanna check your hearing
The worst part of the video was the atrocious guitar backing track. Next episode better be: “How to sound like the Edge.”
They’re trying to avoid any copyright issues. The video focuses on the drum sounds, so the guitar is just there to give a little context.
now to get the guitar right.. or was that deliberate
it's deliberate, for copyright purposes
A drum sound cannot be "iconic," nor any Sound at all, for that matter. Only Imagery is iconic - i.e., a person or thing whose image is famous, usu. to the point of being emblematic. (The word Icon, in original Greek, Means image.)
Now the most overused - and certainly most Misused - word on TH-cam, Iconic has been widely mistaken to mean simply "widely known," "instantly recognizable," "memorable," etc. But just as flavors, scents, ideas, emotions, bodily sensations, etc. cannot be iconic, neither can Sounds.
No one (hopefully) would ever think to speak of "iconic ice cream flavors," or the "iconic smell of sulfur," Marx's "iconic economic throries," the "iconic bliss of puppy love," or the "iconic pain of a toothache."
Misusers do seem to intuitively understand that "iconic" has some inherent relationship to the human sense of sight - to the exclusion of the other senses referenced above. But for some reason, while ruling out the word's applicability to these other senses, they appear to unconsciously stipulate a special exception for the sense of hearing - so that, in their minds, the word can apply to the products of precisely two human senses - namely, Sights and Sounds.
Misuse of iconic has spiraled out of control of late due to the TH-cam Feedback Loop - whereby video-makers' errors are parroted and propagated. Indded, if the word meant what the misusers seem to think it means, we could call this more and more common mistake an Iconic Linguistic Error.
Incidentally, these folks did a bang-up job on this one - sounds very close to the actual song.
What’s your take on the term “alternate tunings”?
Or Leo Fender’s use of “Vibrato” for his amp tremolos?
Or, for that matter, the wide use of “tremolo” for a guitar’s whammy bar?
Damn girl, chill (by “chill” I mean “relax,” or “calm down”)
You must be fun at parties
Wow...what a douche nozzle.
Why don’t you try and create a new iconic sound rather than coping one from 50 years ago?
Why learn a chord instead of inventing a new one?
@@Reverb That’s not the same thing, it’s like saying why play the drums when that’s already been done. Play the drums, but find your own sound.
Here's a perhaps too elaborate and earnest explanation: Music is a language made up of pieces-chords, notes, rhythms, etc.-that are mostly not new inventions, in and of themselves. It's in the combination of those familiar parts that new music is created.
The recording processes of music are pieces of that same mix. Mic placements, preamps, processing, and all the rest can bring a feeling out of drums (or anything else for that matter) that wouldn't have been available just with the instrument alone.
We do these recreation tutorials so that we can understand how others put some of the pieces together. We want people to take whatever parts of these processes will work for them, mix them up with other pieces, and then go out an make "new iconic sounds" exactly as you're saying.
We're just learning how it's done, passing it along, and trying to add to the sonic vocabulary we all get to play around with. Hope you learned a trick or two from this or other videos and transformed them into something cool in your own music.
@@djtomoy You've obviously never worked in a paid musical situation. LOTS of producers will ask a drummer, "can you get that u2 sound?" I play bass and band leaders have asked for "the Geddy sound." It's just a reality of the music business. Besides, music is supposed to be fun; if people wanna emulate sounds, let them. It's not hurting you.
I’m a guitarist moving into production who doesn’t understand as much as I’d like yet about drums. This video series is SOO helpful to me to learn drums from a production/engineering perspective so I can make creatively informed decisions at a future point.
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