Floor Tom as a Kick Drum? Sure!

[@Nodealdisco]

That kick sounds incredible! I always used to think, the bigger the kick the better, but clearly I was wrong.

[@FanaticDrummer]

Only in a studio or mic’d situation. If raw acoustic, the small kick gets lost.

[@TessaAnderson]

Convinced me to turn my 18x16 into a bass drum for funk stuff

[@TheBeanzo]

Fantastic sound. Also that snare sounds great!

[@Timothyis]

Agree

[@randywiedmer4656]

Joel puttin some stank on it...nice work...had my toes tappin.

[@colladayleather]

Sounds so good... Thanks for sharing

[@thecoolesttool8009]

Great Inspiration! Im putting together a little cocktail kit to learn on, and now I know for a fact I wont be missing the full bass drum. I know my neighbors wont lol

[@johnplunkett7120]

That sounds awesome! I'd love to know the tuning range. I've been trying to get a good low sound out my 16 inch

[@freespirit8745]

Posted a comment yesterday, but apparently it didn't go through. I was asking you how you made the floor tom stable on the ground (spurs)? And how you attached the pedal to it? I was also saying that this was some serious playing and that the EQing sounds great. What mic's are those?

[@recordingdotpizza]

Thanks for the kind words! The floor tom is mounted in a cool little mount made by Danmar called a Tom Kick Riser, or Floor Tom Riser, or something like that. Stably mounts all sorts of toms on their side and provides a plate for mounting a pedal. Works great! I'm constantly varying the choices of mics I use, but those appear to be a D112 inside the 'kick' with a Heil PR30B outside, a Heil PR31BW on snare and also on hi-hat (both the Heil models are great, versatile mics for LOTS of things!), and overheads were, I believe, a pair of LD condensers I built using the bodies from a pair of Monoprice 600800 (same mic as MXL 770) with Mic Parts TL3 kit (I believe it is called), which is a transformerless multi pattern mod for that mic. Capsules are Luke Audio LA-4 (K47-type, 1-micron, titanium-sputtered mylar). Room mics would have been a pair of Bumblebee RM-6 DIY ribbon mics (1.2-micron), or Samar AL95 ribbons, just beside/behind the camera. Also, not visible in the picture, is a crappy Sony electret dictation mic from the 1970s (ECM-95S, I think) that I put just behind me, to my left, about a foot off the floor and pointed toward the snare drum (these mics have funky connectors, but I cut it off and soldered an XLR). I usually put a microphone, often a cheap one, in this position to get a different kind of 'kit' vibe than the room mics that isn't distant, but isn't up close either. I usually process this track with reverb (in series, balancing wet/dry as desired). Used this way the verb yields a more natural, believable result. If I want the verb to favor kick or snare I'll side chain dynamics processing on that track (before the reverb) as needed to control the amount of each signal hitting the reverb. I prefer not using individual tracks to send to reverbs, at least not without screwing up the signal in front of the verb somehow. Thanks again for the comments! -JC

[@freespirit8745]

@@recordingdotpizza Ok, found it online thanks. That was very detailed and I'll take consideration of it next time I'm rec'ing drums. Your latest video about mixing simply was very helpful! Perhaps I could share my experience of my last night of mixing someday. Do you know about discord? And do you have instagram or facebook?

[@constantinedance]

nice

[@marcosvrech4794]

Great sound 💪

[@Jenisonc]

Great sound! What head are you using on the bass, if you don't mind me asking?

[@recordingdotpizza]

Actually, it's just an old clear Pinstripe I had laying around with a medium weight clear head on the front (with a hole cut in it). Tuned VERY loose (just over finger tight) with a folded hand towel and an ankle weight to give it some 'oomph.' Thank you for the kind comment!

[@Jenisonc]

@@recordingdotpizza Thank you so much for the reply!! That's great. I've got left over ankle weights from when I first started diving. Really appreciate your sharing your time.

[@LutzTeichmann]

sounds better than many kicks ^^

[@rafaelestrada1846]

Sweet kick but that snare takes the cake