What makes a great STUDIO DRUMMER? (with Krimh)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- After a week of recording drums together I sat down with the amazing Kerim @KRIMHDrummer Lechner (Septic Flesh, Decapitated, Behemoth) to talk about recording metal drums in the studio. I asked him the most important questions that you guys had sent me! Enjoy!
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It was awesome to have a little drum nerd talk with you 🥁
Always ready buddy! 🫡
dude you stole that beat at 0:50 straight from pantera. it's that double paradiddle figure. i get it though, it's great, ,i play it all the time too
@@hazardeurstole it? Don't be that guy
i was obviously not meant like that, hence the second sentence. do you usually take everything at face value? @@Centerpieceofmind
Be honest, do you want the Knot gig?
Huge fan and I'd love to hear it!!!
Sending this to my drummer immediately
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I started following Krimh's videos still when he was playing covers in a rehearsal room. It's really nice to see him at the top.
same. i was in his rehearsal building is austria 3 weeks ago when playing in Wienen Neustadt
As a long time metalhead I will tell you right now we are tired of the over edited drums. Let the drummers play. Let good drummers shine. Everything is too perfect and over processed these days. It all sounds like a computer made song.
Hell yes, all of the above!
Killer video! Krimh is one of the most amazing drummers of our generation and he truly is inspiring. Can't wait to hear how it all turns out. 🤘🔥🤘
I’ll give my best!
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Wow, i just returned from a Recording Session 30 minutes ago, and I’m pleased to hear that so far what’s been said in the video, I have not been guilty of. Feels good 😆
Im especially connecting with the „don’t Play What you cant Play“ thing, my band wanted me to play a triplet blast beat in one of our songs, but I told the, „guys I’m just not fast enough for that, so how about I do triplets on the bass drum, the hands stay simple.“ and at the end they liked the solution.
Faking in the studio ultimately makes a drummer look „worse“ in a live scenario, even if they are good.
My first concert ever was Septicflesh in 2018 when they visited Morocco ... I will never forget how KRIMH's double bass drum punded my chest in the sound check .... Core memory right there it was one of the best nights in my life
Just like Justin Bonitz, you feel like a proud fan when you watch them from the beginning.
Great interview, I think the nuance between studio and live is often overlooked. Krimh sounds like he really thought through what he wants to sound like and what he wants to do without hindering spontaneity and feel of the moment. Really good insights.
Which is something every drummer should do if you ask me!
Awesome interview/breakdown. KRIMH is an absolute beast of a drummer but also a very natural and common sensical musician. I also love the approach of coming back to the natural sounds of drums in particular when it comes to metal. Sure things are going to be digitally manipulated to a degree but for KRIMH his drumming has that brutal yet realistic touch and obviously with him doing a deep dive in this video, that is why he sounds the way he sounds. Awesome video nonetheless!
great video guys! thank you for sharing your experience
John Tempesta signature snare, Double Kick pedal from Poland... i love him already! 😁
Really appreciate these discussions with the artists you've done recently (Dave Ellefson and KRIMH). One common theme in my recording sessions has been the unreasonable amount of control musicians try to exert. They haven't put the time and energy into learning how to record, but want to dictate everything. I've noticed in the two recent interviews that neither Dave or Krimh felt a need to "protect" their recording. If those two can lower the ego, then so can the guys I work with.
It was a pleasure to watch and listen to this conversation 100%😊
Great to hear that!
Great video! Lots of good advice.
When I record session drums for others, sometimes don't even prepare myself in advance, I usually just listen to one part, lets say intro, record that, then listen to the verse, record that, and so fourth until the song is done.
It usually turns out good as a recording, just dont ask me to play the song live after that. xD
Sehr gutes Interview und ich bin schon gespannt was da Hiasl und Jambo fabriziert haben ;-)
A huge thank you to both. What an amazing discussion between two professionals who are dedicated to the craft of playing and recording music. 🙏🏼
I can tell, that you guys had an amazing session. Can’t wait to hear the album when it comes out. 🤩
This was a phenomenal discussion! Consistent, great sounding rimshots are absolutely an art, a science and an endurance challenge for sure. And I love the Vintage Emperor Coated as a snare head. Really durable, full bodied sound and still as sensitive as a normal coated Emperor in my experience.
Cool video, and also a quite, let's say, healthy view on drums and recording them. Thanks 😊
Everything in this interview is gold. Every drummer needs to see this. Fantastic stuff.
Great video and great drummer. Great advices too
Thanks for that interesting video!
As a drum gear geek these videos have been absolutely brilliant, thanks guys. 👏
Wow what an amazing show with this guy !!! I love listening to krimhs playing all these years there's something about his grooves that always hook me in and I can flow with his drumming !!!! Sometimes I'll find some clips here on TH-cam of KRIMH just playing and I'll plug my Ibanez or Jackson into usually either my vox Cambridge 50 ( love this little amp it's so beefy with the chugga chugga and cleans up great for crisp clean tones as well). Or my little orange dark terror head through a 2×12 Laney cabinet ....there's a ton of great drummers out here in the death metal extreme music scene globally lately so it's hard to be unique and have your own style these days but KRIMHS one of the guys that as soon as a song comes on your like "OH SHIT IS THAT KRIMH 😝🤟🤟🤟🤷🤷🤷 I LOVE THIS SHOW man your always touching on some much wanted and needed information about tone and sound and audio !!! Killer AGATHO-DAIMON SHIRT 😝😝😝😝🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
Now bruther ever since you did that show at hapas guitar company I actually have the two guys that run the shop as my screen saver on my laptop lol.....god one day I'll have a guitar from those guys they just do things on a whole other level as far as a master luthiers work ... their guitars are exactly what needs to be in the hands of a complete death metal maniac bro lol 🎉🎉🎉❤🤟🤟🤟🤟😝😝😝😝😝🎸🎸🎸🎸💯💯💯💯
Thanks 🙏🏻
@@KRIMHDrummer fuck yea BRUTHER 🤟 you're welcome but thank you for being part of the metal church and a inspirational figure in today's world of extreme music my brutha💯💯💯🎸🎸🎸😝😝😝🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
As a HFTS fan I am not only hyped about the video but also the fact there's a new record coming.
For a reason! It's gonna be great
Great bro, all you say is truth, we play in service of the music!
Cool video. As an amateur drummer, it's nice to notice similarities like how you have to have certain freedoms in your playing during a song and not every note has to be the same. Just like a drum set, it has to be set up just right for a comfortable playing feel. Rim shot is also part of the game!
That was a great bunch of stuff ! Awesome advice, pointers, tips, etc..
Whole thing was rad, but the absolute best bit was the metal ‘ba-bye’ at the end there. Incredible!
Krimh is the be(a)st !!!
Fcking legend that guy! ❤
two living legends legendary talk about THE SHIT - loved listening to u guys! learned more than in 12 years of school, haha - thank you so much❤🔥
Krimh is a beast! Been a fan for over a decade
Great interview and amazing drummer! He's such a nice and honest guy!🤘
One of the best Drummers right now. Pure, no gimmicks
Gartska proves this incorrect.
@@shanephillips4011notice how I said “one of” as in one of many. Smh 😑
Thank you very much for this great video. Krimh, hope you tour through Denver, maybe next year. L
dude there are some just fantastic info in here ...great video guys
This is epic, I want 2 more hours of you two talking drums 🤘🏾
I couldn't agree more on the rimshots and precision in general. I've often found in recording that less is always more. If I actively focus more on my precision rather than the lick or notes, it almost always sounds better. And volume matters, too. It's ok to be a heavy hitter but there's a limit to where the drums and cymbals lose good tonality the louder you get. Definitely right about the sweet spot. 🤘
Love your videos and playing. Super talent and super nice guy!
Love the Groza T-shirt. Only real legends know this band
i just love you 2 guys :D Krimh as a drummery Kohle as a producer :D love watching your videos, very educative stuff...
Please, keep up the good work :D
Loving this content
JT snare, one of my personal favorites. If you get a chance to grab one, do it. You won't regret it
mucho respecto to my guy Krimh! love your work man.
more of these please!
Lots of wisdom as always 🙌 Great video guys 🥳🥁🍻
Bello/Magnifico.👑👑👑👑👑👑🌡️
Krimh is such a great drummer and also my number one pick to drink a beer with (i guess thats not ever gonna happen). He seems so nice!
excellent interview. Thank you.
great interview
Comment of the day...."It's always fun to work with drummers who can play their shit"
I love septicflesh! Some of their music was touching base way before on certain history. Like a fav Vampire of Nazareth.... Great Mass was a sick album and so was the album Sumerian Demons... But so much touching on the aliens in the Bible and history... Like dues ex machina.. or the war in heaven. But septic flesh... Again all so sick and Khrim in the mix fucking awesome! Love this group and this drummer is so savage! Bought this when I saw it.. a must! Much love Khrim. Gonna see you guys live when your in America again.
badass! thanks!
Great info
I would love to have a month to prepare for a session... in my studio life I usually get 3-7 days if Im lucky and with poor programmed drums. So I have to make "art" on the spot. Which is hard, and sometimes close to impossible. And then you need to fall back to "basic" drum parts.. which is cr**.. Luckily I also often mix a lot of it in my own studio, so I sometime do 1-2 more takes after the client leaves. Must be a blessing to have so much time to bring the magic.. and be as good as Krimh.. I dont do metal, but I can hear if a metal drummer kan play, and Krimh is honestly one of the most groovy metal drummers I have heard in years!! Kudos!
Refreshing to see a metal drummer who improvises! His approach reminds me of Martin Lopez.
Nice interview 🤘🤘🤘
Great drummer, terrific interview
I only hear Rimjobs 😂
Killer interview my friend 🤘🏽😎
KRIIIIIMMMHHHH
Very cool video ...and also cool Shirts 😅
Shirts matter! ;)
I wonder if anyone has ever written a 2 1/2 minute song that is one long blast beat. You could alternate hands, add different accents, keep the bpm and kicks exactly the same. I've never heard that but I think it is possible and more than that possible to do in an interesting way that doesn't get old.
There are single ply heads thick as a regular double ply, like the Evan’s g14 or the remo powerstroke x. Really nice heads
They're totally usable too!
Krimh seems like a very pleasant person
He is!
Krimh 🔥🤘🏻❤🤘🏻🖤🔥
He's awesome....and weirdly enough, his name and shirt 2 of my favorite weapons....guns in the Call of Duty game. The krimh shotgun, and the Groza
That must be a magic connection between you! ;)
Ohhh there's session drummers for metal too I suppose
Drummer that also plays guitar, bass and do vocals, but man did I recognize myself in what Krimh said. I think exactly the same in the studio. Fills are always spontaneous and I'm always nerdy and self critical. I've had sessions where I hit the wrong tom in a fill and re:recorded the whole song. I'm absolutely horrible to work with lol.
Yep , same over here
I love hearing that he struggles with reading sheet music... me too man 😅
Being able to read drumming charts fluently like Vinnie Colaiuta, is what makes a great studio drummer.
There is a part of this interview that makes me very happy. As a metalhead for 35 years or more, I have been very disappointed with the sounds in most modern metal (specifically for me in the US, the sound of American metal). This digital age has brought great advancements, but it seems like around 15 years ago everything became the same. It's digitized, quantized, squared-off and mechanical. I cannot listen to these sounds and enjoy them. This is for drums, guitars and bass as well. If it sounds like a machine, I will not listen to your album. Save this for KMFDM. So when I hear a producer and musician speak about looking back for more natural sounds created by talent and skill, this gives me some hope that maybe we will begin to hear some "real" heavy metal again.
Of course I don't mean that "real" means to sound like The Return of Darkness and Evil or Deathcrush, but that it sounds alive. Bands who sound bad on purpose are worse than the ones that sound like computers. You don't have record in mono through rigged up headphones into a boombox, so cut it out.
Anyway, I rambled a bit, but great interview!
Hey!
Please make sure to watch the video that’s gonna be released on this channel tomorrow.
This could be exactly what you need! 🤘
cool stuff
What's that wrapped around the bottom of his snare stand?
I started as a drummer years before i picked up a guitar. I spent so much time becoming a metronome and keeping accuracy with faster speeds. It kind of put me inti a weird place once i began writing music on guitar and i feel bad for my drummer. I tend to write music that has lots of weird tempo changes within riffs. I get bored with music that doesnt manipulate timings very much. My music constantly messes his grooves up.
Dude was he playing 32nd note triplets as a blast? (1/6th of a beat to clarify) never heard that before
Is there an ideal minimum distance for cymbal heights in relation to tom mics?
Versatility and flexibility.
Someone explain drum track bleeding to me. Like isnt there uni directional mics that dont pick up whats around?
You will always have cymbals bleeding into your close mics on the shells. Especially when you start compressing or when you add highs.
He plays kick drum faster than Superior Drummer set to the highest tempo haha! Fantastic skills, well done 🤘🤘🤘🤘
When did Roy from the IT Crowd become a studio engineer?
You give some Carolina Reaper to your techs, and they will work better! That's the secret! Awesome video! Very cool!
Krimhshots ❤
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I was born in 1972. I have been in music my whole life. My father is a drummer that still plays live all over the Gulf Coast region of Texas. Growing up in an analog world, the goal was to have the song so tight with the band a click track that you could play the song from end to end in 1 take. There may be the occasional punch in. but you typically punched in and kept going. We would spend hours working on parts and hours in personal practice time to get to the "studio polished" sound. If you could not play it back then, you didn't make a record. Now, the record is to make it to the end of the intro a couple times, and pick the cream of the crop. Rinse, and repeat for the verses, and choruses, solos and the ending. Basically, a band can come out of a modern studio, and never played with each other on the song you love the most from them. The drummer probably threw the part together bit by bit on the spot, or came with some ideas and recorded them piece by piece. They chose the stuff that fit the best. Lined it up on the grid and the artist is off to the bank. So, there is no real human interaction except with the engineer/producer during the process. The song then only becomes as good as the sum of it's whole, so to speak. A bunch of small parts added together in the box to create a piece of music. On the other hand, musicians who constantly work and write together to create songs weather for live performances or in the studio, usually record most of the songs like the "old schooler's" did. They understand that there definitely is a vibe or extra special something that happens when at least 2 of the members are tracking most, if not all of a song/record track together. ie. A bassist and the drummer playing in the studio to a scratch guitar track w/click. The foundation of the song now has that Human element that happens when two or more people play music together. Now, if the engineer/producer understands this concept, he can connect with a musician like KRIMH and sort of be his other band mate. He can create the human element environment in the studio with the solo musician, by the way he encourages and interacts with the artist, helping to create a tighter more musical part for the record. Prost! Great video as always!
Rimshots. The debate. I know some studio guys that do not play rimshots. Especially if sampling is done after (99%) now. Then I know guys that absolutely rimshot every hit and break sticks every 5 mins. Rimshot accuracy is a years long journey. For blast beats not many are doing a actual rimshot. That's very difficult.
Matt Gartska is today's best......without question
not fair keeping that snare for yourself . Samples please
That snare recording is for the HFTS record.
I really like it if certain recordings just live in one place.
@@KohleAudioKult Ha I hear ya. Was that the Tempesta snare ?
profis bei der arbeit
You should, as well bring Blastphemer too.
Is he still around? He used to record some stuff here at the studio something like 10 years ago!
@@KohleAudioKult I think so. In my 2 year period in Germany (Oldenburg -Niedersachsen,2010-2012)I've met him in the train station of Oldenburg.
Even though I have all the respect for musicians these days, I kind of feel that thanks to social media, music has become more of a science than a spontaneous expression of musicians of all skill levels. No hate, just my two cents ...
The world has only one China, but Mr. Krimh has two.
Haha! Good one!
Rimshots for days! The snare doesn't pop right without it.
cream
Do people actually fake it? I feel like this is a fake issue and it feels really weird to give credit for something thats not happening.
Believe me! Kick drums in the studio are all fake these days!
Yeah, I believe he was speaking about the fact that most drummers these days trigger their kick drums and don’t actually record their feet playing fast stuff. He doesn’t fake it in that aspect. Which I totally respect and think is very admirable. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
The Evans EMAD patent has now expired, hence Remo have instantly copied it.
I never fake da keek.
You need more demos, saying how to hit drums or there is a sweet spot for rimshots without show what they are is pointless. Its like a drum teachers at a lesson just telling you to play better.
"If I can not play that fast, I wont do it" ... What the fuck were they demo-ing with samples?? 380bpm 16ths on kicks or what?? Lol🤣
Who?
@@KohleAudioKult
at 4:25.
Kaum vorstellbar, dass etwas zu schnell sein könnte für den Herrn Lechner!😃
Musicians that "fake" it in the studio and can't play it live are trash! Don't record it if you can't play it! All you do is discourage real players from trying to get better.