Old 02-20-2019, 04:41 AM   #1
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Default Using short delay on drums

I've been doing it for quiet some time now, I put about 60ms single delay on drumbus or just a snare to get room effect. Than I might use longer reverb after that but it depends on material.
I came up with the idea by listening to some 70's bands, it sounded to me like that's what they used to do sometimes.
But today out of interest I thought I'd Google it but came up with nothing, (unless I wasn't attention enough). So I wonder if anyone is familiar with this technique. For me it works better that using predelay on reverb.
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Old 02-20-2019, 08:38 AM   #2
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I remember hearing a rumor that Steve Albini used to do this to his room mics before he built Electrical Audio to get a bigger room sound. I messed with it years ago but wasn't a fan plus i record drums in an already large-ish sized room.
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Old 02-20-2019, 08:46 AM   #3
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I almost always use a Lexicon reverb that is set to a patch that puts the drums in a nice room. There are no tails and it is really more of a straight up delay that's somewhere in the 30-50ms range.

After putting the drums in a room, I'll still use a plate reverb on the whole kit so there are some tails after snare and tom hits, but without the first level of room simulation they don't sound as good.
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Old 02-20-2019, 09:40 AM   #4
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It was very commonly done yeah...tape echo on the kit. It does have a bit of a dated feel about it now, and it's one of those things that sounded quite good with a tape machine, but often a bit...clattery with digital stuff.
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Old 02-20-2019, 06:26 PM   #5
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Well at least I'm not the only one doing it. Yes the out of date sound is what I like. I agree that digital can make it clattery but the fix is to make the delay to sound "tapeish" with some HF roll off and yes a plate reverb works well after it.
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