Crazy little tune from this week

Here is a strange little tune that I recorded using a 1999 Telecaster, Old Fender Twin, and Laney Pro Tube amp. I used some retro keyboard patches. Let me know what you think.

Thanks!
 
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=10822156&q=hi
 
 

Great playing. Sounds great.

Thanks a lot!  I really appreciate it.

These are real drums recorded by Harry Stinson and Chuck Ainlay. I am using Toontrack "Music City" drums. It is like 30 or 40 gigs of real drum samples. Maybe I just need to tweak the mics, eq, compression, and velocity.

What do you think would make it sound better?

Cool,

I messed with the drums a little. Is this any better or worse?  Click the above link again!

Thanks!

Cool,

Do you have any examples or links to some really great drum songs or sounds that you are talking about? Maybe, I can try to match it or get an idea of what I am doing wrong. I went through the drums in piano roll and manually changed the velocity of almost every drum fill, crash, snare, and kick. Superior drummer does it, but sometimes it doesn't do it enough.

Michael,

You aren't doing anything wrong!!! Sound and tone is subjective! LOL! If you like the sound of the drums, you have achieved success!!! I can give you ideas of what I consider great drum sounds but that would be my taste or preference. Might not be yours. Some of my favorite drums sounds come from guys like Simon Phillips, Virgil Donati, Dave Weckl, Ian Paice, John Bonham... more of a bombastic sound!!!

Peace!!

Here's Simon Phillips!!

http://youtu.be/jb8k53ZzJbc 

Here's me!! 

http://soundcloud.com/philipbloxam/curse-of-the-troll

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10306882  

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10225236 

Telewanger


Cool,

Do you have any examples or links to some really great drum songs or sounds that you are talking about? Maybe, I can try to match it or get an idea of what I am doing wrong. I went through the drums in piano roll and manually changed the velocity of almost every drum fill, crash, snare, and kick. Superior drummer does it, but sometimes it doesn't do it enough. 

Hi Michael, somehow thought this would make a great theme tune for a Miami Vice like cop-show, like it.

Greetings, Rik

Thanks Guys! I really appreciate your nice comments. 

Wow, those Simon Phillips drums sound super great and so do the drums on the other songs. I totally see what you mean. My drums sound like a joke compared to his sound.  It sounds like sticks of dynamite going off. Now, I need to figure out how to get my Superior Drummer to do it. I have a lot of great plug-ins, so I might be able to pull it off. I am pretty good at getting decent guitar tones, but have never tried to copy or match drum tones. I don't have any outboard gear. Everything is in the box. Do you guys have any ideas?
 
I was wondering, do you treat each drum different or compress and put reverb on everything? I was thinking that the cymbals may sound strange with a lot of compression. I don't know much about it.

Thanks a lot!

I am going to stack a few tracks of drums on top of each other then run them to a buss so I can control all of them. This should produce a huge sound. I hope!

Cool Thanks!

I just stacked 4 tracks of drums on top of each other. I hope this will fix the weak drum sound. It might have made it worse, but I hope not! The snare is cracking pretty good and the bass is thumping better.

Thanks Mike!

Great advice as always, guys!

 
Click the above link again, if you don't mind.

 
I worked on the drums again today. Does this sound decent? There is much more dynamics now.

 
Thanks!

Great playing and very well put together track. A lot of work must have gone into this and your efforts are well rewarded with an excellent instrumental.

Drums and guitar work particularly good.

That is something very unique there!  Being a huge Steve Morse/Dixie Dregs/Eric Johnson fan, I couldn't help but hear some of that in there.  What was interesting is the use of the synth in there and I really got a violin vibe (ala Mark Wood) in some spots.  A very nicely done piece of work and very appealing to my ears.  Great job and a fun ride!