Hello,
I’ve had a dream that has been in the back of my head for some 35 years now… I would like to recreate the sound of the first Ramones album (you know the one with Blitzkrieg bop, bass guitar to the left and a chainsaw like guitar in the right speaker).
In the middle, THE drums!
Joey’s fantastic voice is fully panned L and R.
The drums are played by Tommy Ramone and I just can’t get even near that sound.
The bass drum is wobbly, indistinct, even hard to hear but still “just there” (and to me, it SWINGS!). The bass drum is supposed to have been recorded using a ribbon mic (AKG D-12) placed inside the bass drum before covering it over with a blanket.
The hi-hat is sizzling (using a flanger) with no attack, but has a looong decay and just flows without any bottom (100% in left speaker).
The floor tom is super compressed and 100% to the right. The snare is almost completely “dead” but also “there” (like 2 rolls of gaffer…?), right in the center and never missed even though its volume is quite low.
I thought the OH was mono (and seems to lack both hi hat and floor tom?) but should be stereo according to some reading on the net. The drums where recorded in a small, wooden, room with a big window facing the rest of the studio. There was not much dampening in this room, so it is lively.
Overall, there is a LOT of tape compression.
The tools I have:
Superior Drummer 2.0 plus Avatar SDX, New York Studios vol 2 SDX, The Rock warehouse SDX.
Superior Drummer 3.0.
EZ Drummer 2.0 plus Pop Punk EZX, Vintage Rock EZX
So, how would YOU recreate this sound? To start with, what kick drum?!
