The snare bark has a huge impact on the tuning & sound! AVH's snare on the 1984 album is the best raw but controlled snare sound he had!! He used a bit of flange too! I think u pretty much nailed his sound for the most part!! It sounds awesome!!

Hi Chris, nice. Have you wav files from your snaresound?

It sounds like the snare batter head isn’t very tight.

The snare drum sound also resembles John Bonham's snare drum sound of 1971, especially in Led Zeppelin soundboard recordings from that year.

Gibraltar makes 42 strand snare wires for 14 inch diameter snare drums. Just thought you would like to know that. 🙂

6:10 crucial

How tight do you have your top and bottom head? Do you have a tuned to a frequency?

No it doesn’t sound bad! It’s just dry. But the bones are there! ❤🎉 effects always help.

I’ve come back here many times, as you were one of the first to really try and get it. The A gaffer tape……and you just hit the snare, and I’m in awe again. WOW!

Great job! Remember, he always hit with a rimshot. that is key

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Every time I try, for some reason I get an annoying snare whine, do you know how to fix that? It’s with a ludwig supralite btw

It sounds similar to Intruder/Pretty Woman on Diver to me.

Are you doubles "powered"? meaning deliberate hits or are they bounces? or a bit of each? I studied with Todd Sucherman for a 4 hour masterclass and seemed to indicate that his are powered. LOL I'm starting all over again after 25 years learning like a kid again after having had played in a few bands and all that . It's crazy.

I've seen that he gaff tapes the UNDERSIDE of the batter head.

Could you start a wav by scratch or upload an image? have weird artistic project trying to figure out the image to wav conversion... any ideas? :) only if you have time

4:40 defo little guitars snare sound. Also pretty woman. I duplicated his sound, near as damn it, using a premier heavy rock 9 with everything tighter than a Scotsman

i agree with all the comments here, your snare so far are the closest to AVH snare sound, great job man

Thanks!

That’s really awesome, you got it!

Man you got even closer than Rick Beato's video. Bravo!

Bravo! Everything sounds magnificent.

All my pieces since tone poem Perspective are using the AVH snare itself. Tuned to a d like 1984, but will probably drop it to my favorite c# of Diver Down. An example of these on my yt. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmbZdGZ4fZmhbLc

Wow that's beautiful! Sounds pretty close to his signature sound! Thanks for sharing this video!

His Dirty Movies tone... that's the one. But on this tone... not bad. Not bad at all. Good job!!

I think you did a great job (and explained across the two videos). Among the throngs, I, too, am obsessed, have been since a kid hearing Diver Down and 84, -attending the latter live show. Recently invested the AVH sig drum and just received the equivalent heads and the Ludwig die cast hoop, since well, ain't touching the originals, going into a frame on a wall probably. But will use the drum. After tuning (surely nuanced), the harder part is to follow with mic placements and fussing with numerous plug ins added to Logic. Not gonna buy more plug ins, I hope. Lord-Alge and various reverb options and Abby Road suite better have enough knobs, dammit! Aiming mainly for Diver Down snare sound, take Intruder as an exposed example. But 84 will do too, if it lands there ultimately. If I hit roadblocks, I'm gonna write in again for help.

If youre going for the very early sound, a reverb with surprisingly long predelay (dotted 1/8th note of the songs bpm) on the toms and snare (listen closely on aint talkin bout love, panned hard right) and otherwise the cymbals and mics are probably the second most important for the overall sound. The kick shouldnt be clickly like most modern kicks, too. It all sounded great here.

Hi Chris, of all attempts to duplicate Alex‘s Snare sound, you got it nailed!

Oh that is really jazzy jazz! Really like the cymbals. 😄

Very cool!! Did you write the music?

You nailed it

Yes! Well done! Sound is closest I’ve heard on KZbin! All your drums sound great and you have great feel! Nice work. Kudos!

"none of the Hoo-Ha" - that's awesome! :-) Gotta remember that one.

This is closest approximation to AVH snare that I heard yet. Great work, Chris. Love your tom sound as well - full and round.

The most enthusiastic video ive ever seen lol. Still, got what i needed so thanks. Nice not to have to watch a long winded video for a change.

That’s high level drumming right there, shows me I got a lot to learn

The weight should be written on the underside of the bell

The cymbals sounds great but that Drum, mate, sounds bloody dope! And your playing is awesome as well. Congrats.

Dude way closer than you gave yourself credit for, it sounds great!!

good stuff. thanks for sharing!

These are designed for listening to loud music. They aren't designed to be better at blocking sound than other earplugs. They give you more top end fidelity than regular earplugs.

I mean you could have told me this was Alex playing and I would have believed it

Do you think I could achieve this sound with a Ludwig Acrolite?

Sounds amazing. I have been obsessed with AVH's snare for a long time now. and you have got it nailed. Wow!

Great stuff

As a drummer this is a very interesting idea. Recreating a snare sound of the greats. All I know as a drummer is every artist has his or her own style. The way you tighten the head is for me a constant pentagram formation. To enlighten your sound I use whale wax or candles to scrape onto the rims of my skin rims , this eradicates the need to dampen or muffle the drums. Alex Van Halen used a deep side drum. A side drum is what pipe bands use they dont call it a snare drum. Unless you can see Alex drum you ain't ever gonna work out his sound.

By far the most in depth tutorial covering his sound. Many people overlook the post-processing they put on the snare. Definitely a crucial part is the snare itself, but I always though it was in the compression and eq. I personally like the ‘Balance’ album snare the best. Good job!

I know this video is like 7ish years old but it was a really fun demo. I really enjoyed all of the sort of random commentary. I hope you are still doing great.

I used to have one of those 17" fast crashes. Great cymbal.

Awesome work