Check out my beautiful son playing drums!

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August 08, 11 7:56 PM (permalink)

Check out my beautiful son playing drums!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4wC1stZk84

Jacob is playing the Jazz kit here with the wooden hoops. It sounds fantastic in real life too!

Jim Moody a very close family friend hand makes these drums here in Melbourne. His website is here for anyone after a custom made kit and believe me they sound awesome:

http://moodydrums.com/index.html

You guys have got it good also in the US as Ameraica is one place where drums abound and some very nice custom kits too. Jim is always raving about American drums.

There are several Moody kits too and several movies to come out yet. The rock kit is outstanding. All the movies will eventually be up on Jim's website.

Out of interest I only used 2 AKG 414's over the top and an Audix D6 in front of the kick. No tricks or gimmicks etc..Sounds OK doesn't it.

Thanks for looking. Jacob is playing very well and at 20 has already probably reached the pinnacle of playing Jazz in Australia being in the Jamie Oehlers Quartet which is not bad. It does not get too much better than that.

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    Janet
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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! August 08, 11 8:01 PM (permalink)
    That's great, Jeff!  You should be quite proud and happy!  :)
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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! August 08, 11 8:14 PM (permalink)
    Superb.

    Those things are hard to do just to sit there from cold and demonstrate, he gets less self-conscious at around 1:30 and it's plain to see he is certainly no slouch.

    The kit certainly sounds nice I'd have prefered just a tad more ring contol on the bass drum and perhaps a slightly higher tuning.

    The mic setup is a pretty standard one which works well and sounds good here.

    Good for him, I'll see if I can find some stuff of him and his quartet.

    Good share Jeff.

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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! August 08, 11 8:21 PM (permalink)
    Snazzy looking kit there.

    Thanks Jeff.
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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! August 08, 11 8:25 PM (permalink)
    Thanks Janet and Jonbouy. Yes I am very proud. He is studying in Perth which is about as far away as one can get from Melbourne. We miss him terribly.

    Yeah I agree the kick sound is the way it is and that is the way the Jazz guys like it I suppose. Believe me the rock kit sounds completely different!

    Jonbouy, Jacob has only just started working with Jamie Oehlers so you find much about him yet.  Jamie has worked with some incredible players such as Ben Vanderwall.

    Here is another movie of Jaob playing in a big band if you are interested. All these guys are under 20!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvSBlqabs34


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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! August 08, 11 10:01 PM (permalink)
    Out of interest I only used 2 AKG 414's over the top and an Audix D6 in front of the kick. No tricks or gimmicks etc..Sounds OK doesn't it.


    It sounds great.  Nicely done Jeff.

    If people starting out recording drums got good at this setup instead of clinging to the idea of clamping an array of dubious mics on every drum around the kit they'd make a lot more progress toward getting better results in a much shorter space of time.

    Even if you can afford to close mic the whole kit the major percentage of the whole sound will come from a variation of these 3 mics with perhaps the addition of an SM57 on the snare anyway.

    In my view anything else is pure luxury to get finer control and perhaps more production options on a mix or to cut down/control bleed from other instruments in a live situation.

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    Jeff Evans
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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! August 08, 11 10:22 PM (permalink)
    It also highlights the concept of getting the drums themselves sounding great before you record anything and those drums certainly do. Those wooden hoops make an amazing difference as well. The sound is just so round and warm etc.

    When it came to the rock kit I thought I might have to do some close miking but in the end we didn't. They have come out sounding like a close miked kit which is quite excellent.

    Jim is editing the videos now and I will let you know when they are all up there. He has got a nice little hip hop kit and a funk type thing too. Jacob plays very differently on those and really nails it laying down some tidy grooves.

    He uses Jarrah wood and glues all the pieces together going down from the top head to the bottom and then he has a special lathe that he turns everything on. Jim is quite well known here for making very curved wood furniture so drums must have been a natural progression. He is an expert wood bender! It still amazes me how he builds those things. He imports all the hardware from the US.

    If you check out the website he has also built drums with segments going horizontally like curved bricks. But he does not make the shells that way any more, he has found the vibrations transmit better when the pieces are going downward from the top head to the bottomhead.

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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! August 09, 11 9:53 AM (permalink)
    Hi Jeff,

     That's some great playing on a kit that sounds really well balanced and set up.

     Top notch video too!!!

     I really enjoyed listening to your son's light touch, which made me realize that  the cymbals sounded like they were very thoughtfully selected.


     Nice Job!!!


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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! August 10, 11 8:58 AM (permalink)
     
    Hey Jeff, you must be so proud - your son has a great talent.
     
    Love the big band video too, so cool that they are all so young.

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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! August 10, 11 7:34 PM (permalink)
    Thanks for the kind words people have said. I am very proud and feeling emotional about him at the moment. I must sound a bit silly. I have worshipped the ground he walks on since he was born. I was a professional drummer for nearly 40 years now and we thought and maybe hoped that maybe he would not necessarily tread down that same path but Oh well he has and that is that I suppose. There is something rather special about a son or daughter follwing in your footsteps.

    He is quite a different player to me as well. I am much more of a groove player but he is into much more melodic style of playing. He is much better than me now too. He practices much more, I just relied on natural ability.

    Thanks Steve for sitting through that very long big band video as well. It is a fairly long tune (14 mins) especially with that rather long piano interlude in the middle. Don't know who was doing the sound on that as well but there are some audio problems as you may have heard. Great band though. Ross Irwin went all around Australia and hand picked the finest Jazz students from every school and Jacob was chosen as the drummer. All the others are outstanding. They are all amazing soloists. There is a girl who plays trumpet right back there and she is a knockout singer as well! The big band has been great for his reading. He can read anything now. I think they are going to hire me to record them next time, they have had bad luck with recordings so far.

    And Mike you are very observant about the cymbals. Some of them are mine (the ones lying down) too but he has chosen them very well and he has a very specific idea about what cymbals he wants. He was in New York at the end of last year and spent up big on cymbals there. The US is really great for cymbals.

    And also Mike that is very nice picture you shot as well in that other thread on your walk. Very impressed. Nice camera but great photography as well. Your Dan lethbridge CD is on its way finally too. Sorry it has taken so long. I only just saw Dan the other day and he finally restocked me with some more CD's.

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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! August 13, 11 3:36 AM (permalink)
    Your son and the kit sound very good.  Well done.

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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! October 02, 11 8:51 AM (permalink)
    Here is another video of Jacob playing the Jim Moody Drums except we are into the rock kits and grooves now. Sorry it's has taken a while to get this up. Jim has been very busy making drums!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkCkAeJFaDA

    Still the AKG 414's overheads and the Audix D6 in front of the kick. In one of the video clips I did have a mike on the snare and one over near the floor tom but in the end I did not use them in the mix. I still preferred the overhead sound.

    These bass drum shells are longer than normal but they just sound great live. Jim has just made a completely normal kit of all standrad sizes and it too sounds amazing.

    Jacob has just finished rehearsing and playing in that incredible big band he is in. But this time the big band was joined by your great US trumpet player Adam Rapa. Adam was amazing of course and he announced at the gig that this particular big band was one of the best he has ever played with. I met him after the gig and he is nice guy. He had very nice things to say about Jacob's playing which is pretty cool coming from someone like Adam Rapa.

    Jacob played my drums this time around  (Sonor Rosewood) and I must say they sounded bloody great out the front as well. I think it might have had something to do with the drummer. Sorry if I seem like I am gushing with pride, I cant help myself
    post edited by Jeff Evans - October 02, 11 9:24 AM

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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! October 02, 11 9:22 AM (permalink)

    I hope you understand this is a compliment.

    That sounds like a fantastic set of drums, they are tuned so nicely. The snare tone at the beginning just sounded perfect in every way.

    Between the kit and the playing it sort of leaves you to take the recording for granted... and that's a good thing in the big picture.

    I hope Moody appreciates the quality of the presentation you all are putting together.

    Top of the range stuff.



    best regards,
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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! October 02, 11 11:06 AM (permalink)
    Oh man, Jeff.....for the longest time I've been wanting to comment on this and kept on forgetting!!! One of my girls in Oz goes to uni with Jacob! I was telling her about him when I saw your thread here. Told her to watch out for him...she texts me one day and says "Danny, that guy you told me about....I'm watching him right now...he's incredible!"

    I said "that's my friend Jeff's son!" Hahaha! She's studying to be a teacher and lives in Perth. :) He's a killer drummer...you must be a proud pappa. :)

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    Re:Check out my beautiful son playing drums! October 02, 11 11:47 AM (permalink)
    Jeff,

    We should pair up our sons...


    To bad my sonJason (warning: very slow loading/buffering mp3 website) and your son are a half a world apart.


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