River19
Senior Member
........it just works better than it should.
I normally try to avoid posting day in day out minutiae akin to "I pooped today" but........
As some of you recall I picked up this rewrapped older Ludwig snare a month or so ago to add to the stack of options. Since then, I have found it works well for the niche I imagined, the classic Motown mellow thing. I recorded a couple blues tunes with it shortly after getting it and was impressed with how it just sat nicely in the mix and sounded much bigger and fatter than it really is.
Today, I had a basic country rock tune with a female vocal I wanted to lay a track to. The new Noble & Cooley Alloy was on the kit so I tried it.....dead center hits sounded "good", trying to avoid the rimshot (which I play 90% of the time) but it wasn't doing "the thing" I wanted without going through a re-tune etc.
Swapped out for this silly little drum, checked the fundamental frequency was in the range I noted in my notebook and "boom" recorded the track in one take and this silly thing just sat perfectly in the mix without much EQ........just really "inoffensive" and almost "polite" in how it's fat tone without a heavy "crack" just worked. For a track with layered female vocals and harmonies along with a twangy guitar solo I wanted my snare to stay out of that higher range and sit fat in the middle. Stupid $200 Ludwig orphan just worked perfectly again........
It just works and does "the thing".
I normally try to avoid posting day in day out minutiae akin to "I pooped today" but........
As some of you recall I picked up this rewrapped older Ludwig snare a month or so ago to add to the stack of options. Since then, I have found it works well for the niche I imagined, the classic Motown mellow thing. I recorded a couple blues tunes with it shortly after getting it and was impressed with how it just sat nicely in the mix and sounded much bigger and fatter than it really is.
Today, I had a basic country rock tune with a female vocal I wanted to lay a track to. The new Noble & Cooley Alloy was on the kit so I tried it.....dead center hits sounded "good", trying to avoid the rimshot (which I play 90% of the time) but it wasn't doing "the thing" I wanted without going through a re-tune etc.
Swapped out for this silly little drum, checked the fundamental frequency was in the range I noted in my notebook and "boom" recorded the track in one take and this silly thing just sat perfectly in the mix without much EQ........just really "inoffensive" and almost "polite" in how it's fat tone without a heavy "crack" just worked. For a track with layered female vocals and harmonies along with a twangy guitar solo I wanted my snare to stay out of that higher range and sit fat in the middle. Stupid $200 Ludwig orphan just worked perfectly again........
It just works and does "the thing".
