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Originally Posted by wwjd777 That's a decent sounding kit...
What are you using to record? And are the cymbals from 1977 as well? |
Thanks for the kind words. They're not bad drums - not the best you'll get, but plenty good for my purposes.
FWIW (now that I've
totally hijacked this thread, for which I apologize profusely...), the kit was mic'd with two Marshall large-diaphragm condensors as overheads, and an SM57 pointed at the bass drum as an experiment (altho I did a lousy job of positioning it - the bass drum sounds much better than it does on the mp3), recorded thru a Presonus mic pre' into an old Fostex D90. Typical DIY home-studio stuff. The hi hats are a mix - Paiste Dimensions thin top and a late '70s A Zildjian New Beat bottom. (I've got the matching cymbals for both - I just think this is a nice combination). The ride is a 20" Paiste Prototype, which I picked up two or three years ago. The snare is a 6x14 tiger maple segment shell.
BTW, the top drum is a 10x8 Pearl Export. The smallest tom on the Ludwig set was a 12x8, and after months of trying to find a double-headed 10" Ludwig tom from the same era at a reasonable price, a friend suggested the Export tom - so I picked one up cheap and tried it. It sounds surprisingly good, and is a good match for the kit - which is either high praise for the Export, or a condemnation of the Ludwigs.
