Binaural recording for drummers (presets)

[Tana Drum]

Hi, friends.

I play drums for 20 years, and i have to modify your presets to have the feeling that a drummer has from his drum seat. The presets usually have many mic’s, and plenty of ambient sound, and a drummer not feel that when plays the instrument.

I see very logical that you record drums in binaural mode (with 2 mic’s special head) for the next product expansions or updates. The drummers appreciate it very much, i agree. Play drums and feel the bass drum under your feet (better than your ears), the snare the same, without tons of ambient , it’s good to mix and produce, but not for have the “real feel” that a drummer feel from his seat, i repeat.

I hope that you have in mind because it is an important advance, especially for the drummers that plays and recording with e-drums.

Regards.

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Thanked by: djabthrash

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[djabthrash]

@tanadrum : i just posted a similar message on the Toontrack facebookpage, and i can’t believe nobody else has reacted to your post since 2004, considering how obvious and brilliant this idea is…

This would be great to play drums on an e-kit, but also to audition Superior drumkits in general !

Here’s the message i posted :

https://www.facebook.com/toontrack/posts/10157285273447308

“[DRUMMER BINAURAL MIC suggestion]

 

Hi !

One really awesome feature that should be implemented in the next Superior Drummer (and even EZdrummmer) releases IMO, would be to capture, in addition to your usual close and ambience mics, the binaural sound of the kit from the drummer’s perspective.

 

This would be a great way to audition each kit, and also to have the feeling of playing real drums when you’re playing on a e-kit triggering Superior Drummer (because let’s face it : as cool and good a drum mix sounds in your ears, it doesn’t sound anything like what you hear in the room when you are playing an actual acoustic kit).

 

This would be a gamechanger IMO, and that’s one of the only thing that’s lacking in the current (already awesome) Superior Drummer line, which is already badass.

Not to mention the fact that it’s not that easy to implement, or at least no harder than the existing close mics / ambiance mics setup.”

I sincerely hope Toontrack and the drummer/producer community hears us and that it becomes a thing.

I would buy an extension that has this binaural mic in a heartbeat !

Until then, i will have to tweak the mixer to make it sound kinda like a “kit in the room from the drummer’s perspective”, including trying to find the kits/extensions that have a “trash mic” track, which might have been captured from the drummer’s perspective (but still doesn’t equate an actual drummer binaural recording i guess).

EDIT : in the “Metal Foundry SDX” from the Superior Drummer 2 line, there is an “OH drummer” track, which might be close to what we’re looking for. Boost widely around 110hz to get more of shells’ low-end and you get even closer to what we’re after.

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