Recording DRUMS with ABORTED and Ken Bedene! (INSANE Drumming!)

[@KohleAudioKult]

How do you like that drumsound? Do you want more drumvideos?

[@HEICNOENUMPAX666]

Yes!!!!

[@MiguelLopez-ll5us]

Yes, please!!! Luv what you did with the snare

[@nitrodon7184]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@SimonKranzDrums]

Those drums sound amazing! I definitely want more videos on the topic, and I'm really looking forward to that course of yours. I think I'm moving in the right direction with my drum sound (your videos helped a lot with that), but I'm eager to learn more. All hail the Kohle Audio Kvlt - 'cause it's only really trve when it's got that v in it! \m/

[@sdiazmun]

Sound awesome!!!! Did you record with processing or straight forward from preamps to DAW? Which preamps did you use? Thx for share it!

[@Mendelian]

Easily one of the best drum sounds i've heard in my life. My name is Mendel, ex-Aborted guitarist and i approve this message.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Thanks man. You forgot to mention the UFTA, UFTA though! I said that just for you!

[@hinweg5320]

@@KohleAudioKult Ufta ufta = best beat after Blastbeat

[@Mendelian]

@@KohleAudioKult Hahahah true! UFTA UFTA! I think i’ll make a KZbin video just about that moment haha!

[@MentallyBlind]

I love how Ken mixes ultrafast death metal drumming full of double bass and blasts with really groovy, unusual fills.

[@Producelikeapro]

Great drum video!! Love this! Excellent!!

[@HKKetoRecipes]

I love Ken! What a great drumsound!!!

[@KohleAudioKult]

Thanks man! ❤️🍺

[@KohleAudioKult]

Dude, Is that seriously a Heavy Metal cooking channel? 😳

[@gabekeeler]

I love the drum sound on this album so much

[@PASHKULI]

Sounds really clean and natural. Post-processing is expected to get a proper freq. + phase balance from all those mics. We all know that if the drums sounds great, the whole song\album sounds great (and vice versa)! Really hard work, Kohle! Always a pleasure to watch you record\mix, though just as a video presentation.

[@worksofein6449]

Terrorvision is a fantastic album. Everything comes together to create something that's more than the sum of its parts. Absolutely monstrous!

[@zachripa4158]

Ken has the best sounding bomb blast also some of the most creative fills for a DM drummer .

[@MirkoFustinoni]

It's refreshing to hear such a natural sound in extreme drumming, and with such a minimal post-processing. In the end, to me It always comes down to the quality of the source (engineering, performance)

[@necrothrash]

Please explain the “Precum and Fiesta Synth”.....

[@KohleAudioKult]

I was afraid you guys would find this. Haha!

[@danthemanmillan]

these drums sounds so good! cant wait for the recording lessons

[@mariusvolz5471]

I'd love to see a similar video with Julien from Benighted... his outstanding scream techniques and some tipps from you about recording and mixing brutal screams \m/

[@KohleAudioKult]

We'll do that next time! Juju is killer!

[@daedricvisions8981]

Hell yes! I’ve been waiting for this! Your approach to Including natural in extreme metal is amazing. I have been obsessed with miking, recording, and mixing all natural drums into extreme metal mix without the use of any samples or triggering. I look forward to your lessons on drums.

[@perpetualgrimace]

And yet, here the drums sound natural even though he triggered the kicks and layered in snare ambience samples! I think the key is knowing when and how much to use those types of tools.

[@zazyczech]

I mix drums very similar way! Thank you for this video and your honesty! You say most important thing in the beginning: good drums, performance and acoustics!

[@pmpin8ez612]

So minimalistic, yet such huge sound! I completely understand capturing the right sound coming into the mics first. Makes so much sense. I think people lack the patience to get that great sound first. Or maybe don't even think about it anymore. At least that's true with the guys I work with... GREAT VIDEO!

[@francescogaratti1660]

God the toms sound stellar! I thought they had much more processing going on, this really shows how important the source is

[@lordcuddlebuttz3336]

Oof im not even a drummer but that is my ideal drum sound for extreme metal 🤤 That snare is so on point and clean! Ken is an absolute monster of a drummer and Aborted is a killer band 🤘

[@progressivelibertarian2570]

Thank you for putting in all the hard work to make these videos. Very classy and the "kids" really benefit I'm sure!

[@Scarleaver]

Man, Aborted has been my favorite Extreme-Metal band ever since discovering them back around `01. This is so cool to see!

[@suniso370]

Kristian, ever since Terrorvision came out I always thought it's one really sweet sounding album. You have golden ears, man, I look up to you as an engineer :)

[@timlovegrove1097]

Those toms sound amazing, so much power in the playing.

[@danewing4658]

I Love the kit. The finish on it is BEAutiful!!!

[@slh5697]

How to sound like Aborted drums- Step one: Be Ken Bedene Final Step: Perform drum parts

[@KY1KRR]

Sounds so freaking good when you play the whole kit. You are one of my favorite heavy music producers of all time. Not to mention all of your videos are super well put together, full of knowledge and well spoken.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Thanks! Great to hear that.

[@amirrezarajabloo6993]

This is such amazing video, I Really need this Ken amazing too.

[@willesposito9165]

Great video Kristian. The real drum recording videos are so appreciated. This is the toughest but most rewarding part of recording and mixing to me. Keep em coming homie and keep it brutal.

[@dpiselli]

Just subscribed to the email list! Thanks for the great drum content. Looking forward to more

[@KohleAudioKult]

In the works already!

[@tonykaos4450]

Man, this guy is unreal! Definitely my favourite drummer of all time! This video was awesome very informative, one thing I wish you would have mentioned was how you pan each drum, cheers from Canada!

[@Glurbschnurb]

Awesome video! It would be really cool if you made a video about recording a drumkit with one of the cheapest drum mic bundles from thomann! And maybe A/B it with high end neumann mics.

[@KohleAudioKult]

It's mostly about finding the right mics, not the expensive ones.

[@Espresso101]

Agreed, the would be a fun one to watch. Behringer just released a 7 piece kit for $99 lol. Would love to hear how it stacks to the usual studio go-to mics. Without replacing the spot mics with samples.

[@Glurbschnurb]

@@KohleAudioKult Good advice, but that can be hard when you are inexperienced and don't have access to mics to test. I am currently looking for mics for my toms. Do you like the sennheiser e604's or do you have another preference around the same price range? Your input would be greatly appreciated!

[@KohleAudioKult]

Totally. Sorry if that sounded arrogant. I just wanted to say that the cheap stuff can sound good if you know what you’re looking for. I’m sure I’ll do some tests like this sooner or later.

[@KohleAudioKult]

99??? Holy shit! 😱😱😱

[@aboutthemetal8783]

Yes more drum videos, talk about the difference between cymbals for recording and live, I use 2002 for recording and alphas and rudes live.

[@f4d3r_tv]

That was dope, thanks for sharing!

[@Timetofly8888]

For such a Heavy band, I laughed when he's struggling to lift his floor Tom to show the world the Cotton Candy Finish ..

[@svjat3441]

I'm just getting into this, but so far Ken really stands out to me. I hear some depth in his playing (Groove) that I usually don't hear often in this genre. The sound of his kit is indeed excellent. He cares a lot and it pays of. (And great job by Kristian!) I prefer those things any given day over someone who can play even a little faster and even a little more precise than Ken.

[@_thaaatguy]

I'd love to see some drum mixing tutorials from you. Especially in context with the music and not so much soloed drums. Awesome videos, man. Big fan from Venezuela.

[@hatsubaichuu]

Very sick drum tone. In this vid, you mentioned you prefer your hardware compressor. Any chance we could get some videos on external gear you use? Maybe stuff you recommend, or differences between software implementations vs outboard gear? Would be helpful for those of us who are looking into expanding to outboard gear vs the typical VSTs we tend to use :)

[@KohleAudioKult]

Yes, absolutely. I’ll show you my gear sooner or later. It’s not so much about hardware vs software. It’s more about finding the right gear for your sound.

[@adamvonk5287]

Awesome video. I always enjoy whatever you put out and learn something every time. Definitely would like to know more of the drum editing side.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Noted!

[@nigelsayah2827]

Amazing:) could you upload a full song from the studio of Ken playing?

[@ctld5266]

Sound really good and open. Tom are sounding really great

[@steevidrums]

I am not into death metal at all, but GOLLY there's a lot of amazing drummers doing stuff I can't even comprehend... Killer drum sounds though.

[@vhmendonca]

Amazing Content! Please upload more drum vids! Thanks for sharing!

[@sqlb3rn]

I'm using a Roland electric kit triggering Superior Drummer 3. Would be cool to setup and record acoustics.

[@matt-tomo]

Sounds killer kohle! A drum tuning video would be awesome 🤘

[@batteryincorporated]

Very cool video thanks for that inside look. Sick drummer and Aborted is one of the best Belgian bands ever.

[@samueljones3682]

How do you make snare sounds cut through a dense wall of guitars? I’m a guitar player and love a huge guitar sound but it tends to bury the snare

[@vicnest]

So much details. Sounds great!

[@VTuberDestrisOfficial]

That's a pretty awesome drum sound also yeah the Joel Wannasek BG-Drums plugin is a drum bus compressor

[@jerryarmitage8904]

Man he just makes it look effortless. It's a shame cuz so many Metal Drummer get left out of the Best Drummer discussions. Listen to this guy. Holy Fuck!!!

[@j-fquevillon8134]

Holysmokes.... I'm still kind of frozen in time with that intro!! What a killer-sounding drum... Jeez Louise!! Organic and full-sounding drums ,good job once again!!! But yeah, I would definitely check and get your courses cause I really like your simplistic way of mixing drums without 10 thousand plugins... I Would like to see more in detail your editing, phasing step before etc. And for sure the micing technique you are using.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Oh yeah, that will all be covered in courses sooner or later. Thanks man! 🍺❤️

[@apostle696]

Dude that was f#@king badass!!! Your philosophy is just on point, lot of really good take aways from that sesh and an incredible performance too!!!🔥🔥🔥

[@fabios.8153]

Awesome job, love the band because of the sound too!!!

[@VincentVegardSvart]

What a huge sound!!! Thanks for your tips

[@vicsandSTR]

That kit is suuuper beautiful 🤩

[@StigmatizedProductions]

Great sound! I loved that sound from the first moment when i saw the video "Bit by Bit" years ago!...Here we clearly see what happens when a great Drummer meets a great producer! The rest is history!

[@KohleAudioKult]

Thanks! We still have a chat to do right?

[@StigmatizedProductions]

@@KohleAudioKult Of course my friend! When you have the time(and i know that you are working in many directions and projects) throw me a message and it will be my pleasure!

[@shanelarue8162]

Pretty badass that you released this content for free.

[@NecroToxin666]

The whole album sounds absolutely amazing. Always a pleasure to learn from your videos. Also, I think in one of your older videos you were talking about a Grindstein VST-suite. Are there any news or plans about that? It would be awesome to have it in digital form.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Thanks a lot! We’re thinking about a Grindstein VST version. Keep your fingers crossed!

[@chaosandorderstudio]

Thank you Kristian! I already told ya I loved the Aborted track on nail the mix 😎 but I had to remind you again how awesome and mix ready the session is. Now I'm gonna enjoy this video

[@CincyMetalDrummer]

Awesome to see that you use WIlkinson's Debleeder! I have no idea what I'd do without that plugin!

[@oozede9035]

Great video, as always.

[@nicolasocampo7215]

Hi Kristian! Great drumsound! A great recording is the secret of a great mix! I really enjoy your videos! The longest the better (the videos!!! haha) i waiting for your courses! Also i hope that you make vocal videos (recording, mixing or whatever).

[@TheEmoo92]

The room/overhead snare samples with midi was sick! I'm definitely gonna give that a try.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Do it! That’s my signature move on every drum session. 🍺❤️

[@thomaspugh289]

Could you talk about recording drums in a smaller untreated room and using your phone as a camera connected to the mixer so your video is the drums mic’d

[@SheaRecordmetal]

Awesome drum sounds. It’s helps to have a monster, tight hard hitter behind the kit as well. He’s so good he gets away with the cotton candy “non death metal” shells😁

[@NacekO]

Yes please more drum stuff. Absolutely amazing :)

[@hlrossato]

Awesome video! I'd love to see the automation part of things in the videos. That's always a mystery to me :)

[@KnownAsTheInconspicuous]

The intro itself was breathtaking. Holy...

[@ccrecordings]

Awesome video! Love how minimal processing you use

[@AncientLegacyMV]

Heute nice video. Can you make a video about drum editing and how to quantize extreme drums? Cheers

[@theblaze5493]

great vid, do you measure the distance between the mics and the snare to avoid phase cancellation?

[@KohleAudioKult]

Yes

[@josuastangl7140]

Great video, thx! Very informative

[@walpurgisnacht9234]

Give us a video on tuning! These drums sound great!

[@Rooster7six]

Glad to see your channel is growing so fast! You do amazing vids! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@KohleAudioKult]

Thanks man! Spread the word! 🍺❤️

[@Rooster7six]

@@KohleAudioKult you know it!

[@stephentyler4352]

I can’t believe how incredible these drum tracks sound! 🔥🔥🔥

[@batako0o]

Thanks for making these videos! I love them 🥁🥰

[@cmd_f5]

I have always dug your drum tones man. It's tight and metal while having that warm and realistic. And Aborted kicks so much ass. Peace :)

[@MediaBoy13]

I enjoy your mixing videos more than anyone else's on KZbin

[@GiuseppeNegri95]

Sounds awesome, the woody trick has been saved in my memory now hahah great video as always!

[@factoriadelruido]

Drums, drums, drums!!! I want more druuuuuummms!!! Thanks Kohle!

[@tommasodondio5184]

Great video! Love the sound, natural and not processed too much

[@XxDUSTYxX666]

Absolutely flawless! 🤘😌🥁

[@chiefindisguise]

That De bleeder does an awesome job gating the snare, sounds super clean

[@KohleAudioKult]

I forgot to say that "Drum Replacer" also slightly gates the area between the hits. But yeah, debleeder does the main job.

[@danlundberg]

Hi Kristian! I absolutely love the production on the new Aborted ManiaCult! Everything sounds bloody amazing 😃 The guitars in particular stand out (to me, at least), and I would really love to know what was used for the recording process (amps, cabs, microphones etc). Can I be so bold to ask for a possible behind the scenes video here on KZbin? Another Nail The Mix type of video, but on your channel? Thank you in advance! Keep up the awesome work! 😁🤘👍

[@KohleAudioKult]

Hey there! hanks a lot! I'm sure I'll do a rundown of the mix in my academy next year. But we need to launch the Kohle Audio Kult first ;)

[@KEVDRUMMER]

A perfect amount of (drum) nerd-ing, love it! 👌🏻

[@CrushingAxes]

I went through the URM Academy video a couple of times ! Really nice and helpfull !

[@KohleAudioKult]

Great to hear that! There will be a lot more stuff like this in the Kohle Audio Kult.

[@sski]

Thanks, Kohle. This couldn't be more timely. I have a drum tracking session tomorrow starting in the a.m. for a band of some prominence and this has helped me get back in the mind space. I'll be working with a kit a slight bit larger than Ken's and it's cool to see what you guys accomplished without all the triggering stuff. I prefer mics as opposed to triggers, so this sharpens up my playbook. Cheers! \m/(>

[@KohleAudioKult]

Good luck!

[@sski]

@@KohleAudioKult Thanks, Kohle!

[@markvizza2956]

great video! would love to see a list of what mics were used, specifically the overheads and room mics.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Overheads 414B-ULS. Room AKG C5600

[@harryjohnson5111]

Drumforge put out a Daniel Bergstrand drum sampler. Do you plan on doing anything similar?

[@KohleAudioKult]

Yes

[@metalheadmaynard2684]

i hope aborted is able to come to the states again soon, i need to see Ken play again

[@alioch89]

thank you , this is so cool

[@sebastianpiedrahita37]

Yes. Please. More. Drums!

[@malavparmar7694]

Snare sounds amazing

[@benjiplaizier2935]

Love these videos 🤘

[@citadelasoundproduction9412]

Love the tom sound!

[@blakecurtis7809]

Being a Drummer of 20+ years I can talk drums forever. So here is my question: what is your approach to recording the bottom side of the snare, if you do so. I have heard from plenty of audio engineers that they do NOT mic the snare bottom, all sorts of reasons. And many that do. When I had access to recording equipment I did a lot of trial and error for snare drum recording technique's. For the bottom snare mic my goal was to basically get the snare wire sizzle and slap back. EQ, Compression, Saturation and a little reverb did well to help me get my snare to "BARK" instead of "CRACK" from bottom side mic. Top side is where I would get the attack, crack and slight ring I am in no way a pro, or even that good to recording in general. It was just fun being able to record music and REAL drums. I completely agree with your statement about getting a great sound in front of the microphone. Its too easy to use sample replacement instead of having a skilled drummer put his all into a great performance, nicely tuned drums and time put into microphone placement and such. I want to hear and play real drums, not a computer doing all the heavy lifting. Awesome video thank you. I look forward to seeing your approach to recording the bottom snare side. Thanks again, CHEERS!

[@robsess]

He made a video years ago on another channel for the bottom snare :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnSYmpqfe7ecqsU

[@KohleAudioKult]

Well, you right that the bottom Snare mic isn’t that important. It really depends on the snare. In this case it was usable, sometimes it just sounds terrible. It’s never really essential for my snare sound.

[@ariets]

We need more drum videos!

[@hcwarmia1]

Fucking insanely good sounding drums.

[@KohleAudioKult]

🍺❤️

[@st3929]

Just saw them live at Nummirock!

[@jhunnoh]

Is it possible to do extreme drums with the Glynn Johns method? A vid on why or why not would be awesome.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Not if you wanna have tat precision in a dense metal mix.

[@coryhofing-drummer7441]

Ken is amazing. those drums sound so fucking good. I will move to Germany and sleep in the field to learn how to make drums sound that huge!!!

[@blakepennycook8952]

"500hz is the opposite of brootal." Duly noted.

[@JesusLordOfLords455]

Please explain