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Manny Machado's Almost Beanball
On Sunday, Matt Barnes threw a 90 mph fastball at Manny Machado's head.
It was on purpose. Barnes denies it was on purpose, and you're free to believe him if you want, but come on. Come on. We're adults here. We know when other adults do stuff we'd tell kids not to do. This is that stuff. Barnes threw the pitch because Machado injured Dustin Pedroia on Friday on a bad slide. It wasn't on purpose. Machado said it wasn't on purpose. Pedroia said it wasn't on purpose. Barnes said, Let's be stupid anyway.
Of course, Barnes isn't the only one at fault for such a failing. There are secondary characters who need to be recognized, along with a few who gave kids something to emulate.
Good Job
Here is Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez, set up outside before Barnes throws his pitch.
Here is Vazquez, crouched in worry that Machado just took a 90 mph fastball to the head. It seems a low bar to clear as far as human empathy goes, but then again, Barnes seems unfazed.
And here is Vazquez, awarding Machado first base. Vazquez's demeanor over these 15 seconds is the most damning evidence that Barnes knew every bit of what he was doing. I imagine it will also play well with Christian's mom, who probably delights in knowing that she raised a man capable of demonstrations of caring in the face of poorly behaved co-workers.
A lot of the value managers add is hard to quantify, but if there were such a thing as manager WAR—or WARM, maybe—I'd feel comfortable saying Buck's little trot was worth half a win. All we ever want to know is that people really care about us, and few things convince us that their affection is real more than them rushing to be near us more quickly than they have to.
All these things take to escalate is one guy going over the rail. One guy goes over the rail, and you have dudes coming in from the bullpen, and a secondary character who reveals he really, really wants to fight, and a lot of nonsense. Chris Sale makes you think he's going to cause problems. Rarrrr that's a foul ball. He's mad. He's throwing his hands up! Not that he'd throw a punch himself if it came to it; that's what bench bats are for. Conflict has a way of clarifying hierarchies.
But Chris just wants some seeds. He could be going over the rail, but instead he'll have some seeds and stand around, just like he normally would. There's a lot to be said for being the guy who doesn't fight even though he's grumbled.
At Fault
This expression was not a reaction to Machado almost getting hit in the head. This expression was a reaction to Machado standing on first base after the home plate umpire mistook the sound of a fastball hitting his bat for the sound of a fastball hitting his head. This is not the face of someone who asked his club to make good choices. This is the face of someone at fault. Or, half of that face and a fairly normal looking ear.
John Farrell is 54 years old. He once had his jaw dislocated by his own player trying to restrain him as he argued with an umpire. He's seen things. There's something profoundly disappointing about a grown man not setting a better example, if only out of pure exhaustion.
These Two Pre-Teen Boys
This is Machado's sixth inning at-bat against Red Sox starter Eduardo Rodriguez. One of the pitches almost disappears from the plot, it's so far inside. We don't know what was in Rodriquez's heart, but we might guess that he was trying to plunk Machado.
Here are two pre-teen boys watching that at-bat with their Mom/Aunt/Sitter/Older Cousin/Family Friend. We'll call them Joe and Will.
Joe and Will see Machado getting pitched inside. They can tell Rodriguez is probably trying to hit him. Boston is up by six. Their starter is nearing 100 pitches. This is the time. By the third pitch of the at-bat, they're sure. And they almost tell their Mom/Aunt/Sitter/Older Cousin/Family Friend, but then they get distracted. They're kids. Maybe they just swore out loud for the first time. There's a grownup right there. They could be in trouble.
They also might enjoy a fight. So they go from caring about Manny to caring about themselves. They forget to raise the alarm. It's OK; they still have time to learn. They're pre-teens. They haven't grappled with the Trolley Problem yet. What almost happened wasn't really their fault. But they didn't help. They saw something and enjoyed swearing instead.
These Folks in the Crowd
Come on, how did not one of you stand up and yell, "PLEASE DO NOT BEAN HIM!"
I bet if just one of you had stood up and yelled directly at Barnes, "PLEASE DO NOT BEAN HIM! THAT COULD BE DANGEROUS!" that Barnes doesn't try any funny business. How could he? He was asked nicely and that request is now part of the record. Non-compliance makes him a monster.
We expect too much from ballpark crowds, and I'm generally not bothered if folks want to spend the game in their phones. But I do ask that when given the chance to potentially save a man's head, that someone shout a bit. I can hardly be faulted for that.
Meg Rowley is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @megrowler
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You left out one person to blame, Machado. Regardless of what they said about it after the fact, both Machado and Pedroia know the slide was dirty play and maybe intent to injure. There's lots of precedent with Machado, and I don't disagree with the rest of your argument, but ....
Apr 24, 2017 06:55 AM
No one "deserves" to be hit in the head with a fastball. The whole "Let's all injure each other" machismo is dumb enough without escalating to a potentially career-ending (or even life-threatening) injury to the eye or brain.
Apr 24, 2017 10:18 AM
Why is Machado to blame here?...The guy clearly didn't intend to hurt Pedroia...Farrell then waited 43 hours until the had a sufficient lead, and had two different guys throw at him, the second one at his head...Pedroia was embarrassed by it...Machado kept his mouth shut, stepped back in the box and then Frank Robinson'ed a shot to dead center field...Farrell is the mental-case here...
Apr 24, 2017 07:24 AM
People still blaming Machado on this one despite all visual evidence and the reactions from the players actually involved in the play themselves just suggests to me that when it comes to some things, people are going to believe whatever they want no matter what. Trying to discuss this at this point is like trying to play chess with somebody who thinks they are playing checkers - they'll declare victory even though they aren't participating in the same game.
Apr 24, 2017 08:13 AM
Vazquez setting up that far outside means that either 1) he really doesn't know what Barnes is about to do or 2) he does know, and he's trying to get Machado to lean in a bit.
Apr 24, 2017 10:11 AM
It was a legal slide, not to mention the fact that the field was wet, so Machado probably slid further than intended. He immediately went to help Pedroia as he realized he might have hurt him. Rodriguez tried and failed to bean him. Should have been over there. Barnes should get a week suspension for throwing at the head.
Apr 24, 2017 10:34 AM
I just hate Barnes' and Farrell's clear BS in saying he was trying to get a high fastball at the hands to get weak contact. Don't insult our intelligence. We saw where Vazquez set up. I hope they both get very long bans. There's no place in the game for this kind of garbage.
Apr 24, 2017 11:36 AM
John Geer
Good piece, and a nice tip of the cap to the kind of fun, quirky stuff Sam used to do here. I'm glad that spirit rages on at BP.
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Pioneers in Efforts to Defend Death-Penalty Cases, End Capital Punishment Remembered in New Book, ObituaryPosted: July 14, 2017
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As a psychiatrist in the Wayne Unit of Texas' Huntsville prison from 1960 to 1963, Dr. Lee Hartman presided over 14 electric-chair executions. When his grandson, Ben Hartman, a journalist, began investigating Dr. Hartman's life, he discovered journals that chronicle those executions and the psychological toll they took, possibly contributing to Dr. Hartman's suicide in 1964. Dr. Hartman's journals contain basic data on the men who were executed, including their names, race, a summary of the crime, and notes on the execution itself. More profoundly, though, they capture Dr. Hartman's reactions to his experiences and how they shaped his views on the death penalty, leaving him—in his grandson's words—"a determined opponent of capital punishment." In 1962, Dr. Hartman wrote, "The death penalty is irreparable." After the highly-publicized execution of Howard Stickney, a 24-year old who professed his innocence, Dr. Hartman wrote, "Very shook up and angry over whole cruel mess." He had been with Stickney on his scheduled November 10, 1961 execution date as they neared the door to the execution chamber. The journal reports that the phone rang at 12:32 a.m. with news that a judge had granted a 10-day stay of execution. This was "[a]pparently a complete surprise to Stickney," the journal entry says, "who broke down, prayed and wept." In May of 1962, still professing his innocence, Stickney exhibited "[d]ignity and grace, shook hands with several guards while waiting, didn't want to take coat off." The journal reports: "At 12:24, warden returned–no stay, Stickney quietly sat in chair." Three separate jolts of electric current were sent through his body, "1st shock at 12:25–dead at 12:30." Elsewhere in the journal, Dr. Hartman wrote 19 pages on arguments for and against capital punishment, clearly setting out his views. "The death penalty has a brutalizing and sadistic influence on the community that deliberately kills a member of its group," he wrote, permitting the public "to vicariously indulge in vicious and inhumane fantasies under socially-acceptable guises." He wrote: "The death penalty is not applied impartially. There is such surfeit of these cases that to mention them would be redundant. The poor defendant is obviously at a disadvantage and frequently receives the extreme penalty while the wealthier accused escapes a prison term. There is well known discrimination on racial or class lines." Dr. Hartman struggled with depression for many years, spending several months in a mental hospital after working in the prison. In 1964, he committed suicide by taking an overdose of pentobarbital, a drug now used to execute prisoners in Texas.
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Independent Pathologist Says Autopsy Reveals Problems With Virginia's Execution of Ricky GrayPosted: July 10, 2017
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Resentencing of Intellectually Disabled Prisoner Highlights Death Penalty Decline in South Carolina and NationwidePosted: July 7, 2017
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Sheriff Admits Improper "Activity" in Orange County, California Snitch ScandalPosted: July 6, 2017
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Execution Drugs Three States Attempted to Illegally Import Have Now ExpiredPosted: July 5, 2017
Three thousand vials of the anesthetic sodium thiopental that three states attempted to illegally import into the United States for use in executions have now expired, according to an investigative report by BuzzFeed News. Arizona, Nebraska, and Texas each purchased 1000 vials of the drug in 2015 from a questionable supplier in India called Harris Pharma, despite warnings from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that importation of the drug would violate federal law. Citing documents obtained from the FDA through a public records request, BuzzFeed reports that the sodium thiopental in the shipments expired in May 2017. The FDA confiscated the sodium thiopental Arizona and Texas attempted to bring into the country after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized the shipments at airports in Phoenix and Houston. Federal officials justified their action saying that a 2012 court order "requires the FDA to refuse admission to the US any shipment of foreign manufactured sodium thiopental being offered for importation that appears to be an unapproved new drug or a misbranded drug." FedEx halted Nebraska's shipment in India because of "improper or missing paperwork." Harris Pharma, the company that sold the drugs, claimed to have manufactured the sodium thiopental itself, but the facilities it registered with the FDA and the Drug Enforcement Administration were not equipped to produce pharmaceuticals. Harris had, in fact, purchased the drug from another Indian manufacturer and resold it to the three states at a substantially inflated price. The sole U.S. manufacturer of sodium thiopental halted production in 2011 over ethical concerns about the use of the product in executions. In January 2017, Texas sued the FDA in federal court over the agancy's continued detention of the drugs without having issued a formal decision on the disposition of the drugs. The FDA issued a final order in April 2017 refusing to release the drugs to Arizona and Texas, and Texas has challenged that ruling. A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said the state's lawsuit against the FDA would continue, despite the expiration of the drugs. Last year, a Texas official whose name was redacted from official documents said in an affidavit that the state, "intends to continue importing thiopental sodium from the same foreign source, and with the same labeling, as the entry that FDA is currently detaining."
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Equal Justice Initiative Report on Lynchings Outside the Deep South Suggests Links to Capital PunishmentPosted: July 3, 2017
Lynching has long been regarded as a regional phenomenon, but in an updated edition of its landmark 2015 report "Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror," the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has now documented more than 300 lynchings of African Americans in states outside the Deep South. "Racial terror lynching was a national problem," said EJI Director Bryan Stevenson (pictured). More than six million African American migrants fled "as refugees and exiles from terror in the American South," but the racial terror often followed them. "Hundreds of lynchings took place outside the American South," he said. The original EJI lynching report documented more than 4000 racial terror lynchings in 12 Southern states, and described the historical link between lynching and the modern-day death penalty. The new edition tracks lynchings in eight states in the Midwest and Upper South: Oklahoma (76), Missouri (60), Illinois (56), West Virginia (35), Maryland (28), Kansas (19), Indiana (18), and Ohio (15). The pattern of lynchings suggests a continuing link to modern capital punishment: Oklahoma and Missouri rank second and fifth in the number of executions in the U.S. in the last fifty years and have executed far more prisoners than any other states outside the Deep South. Working with Google, EJI has created an interactive website providing audio, video, and maps to tell the stories of the victims of racial terror and illuminate the geographic patterns of lynching. "These lynchings were intentionally barbaric, torturous, gruesome," Stevenson said, and often whole communities actively participated in the public spectacle. "Our collective failure to acknowledge this history has created a contemporary political culture that doesn't adequately value the victimization of people of color today," he said. In an interview with The Washington Post, Stevenson explained how the legacy of lynching affects today's criminal justice system, and the death penalty in particular. When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld capital punishment in 1976, Justice Potter Stewart justified capital punishment as an advance from "self-help, vigilante justice, and lynch law." "They started trying people inside." Stevenson said, "and they had the same kind of unreliable verdicts and the same kind of death sentencing and the same kind of abuse of people of color in the courtroom that existed outside the courthouse during the lynching era."
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Mid-Year Review: Executions, New Death Sentences Remain Near Historic Lows in First Half of 2017Posted: June 30, 2017
As we reach the mid-point of the year, executions and new death sentences are on pace to remain near historic lows in 2017, continuing the long-term historic decline in capital punishment across the United States. As of June 30, six states have carried out 13 executions, with 30 other executions that had been scheduled for that period halted by judicial stays or injunctions, gubernatorial reprieves or commutation, or rescheduled. By contrast, at the midpoint of 2016, five states had carried out 14 executions, and 25 other executions had been halted. 12 executions are currently scheduled for the rest of 2017, with 8 others already halted, and several more death warrants are expected to be issued. Depending on whether Ohio carries out the five executions pending between now and December, DPIC anticipates a slight increase in executions in the U.S. from 2016's 26-year low. However, even with the spate of four executions carried out in Arkansas from April 20-27—that state's first executions since 2005—there will likely be fewer executions in 2017 than in any other year since 1990. New death sentences also remain near historically low levels. DPIC has confirmed at least 16 new death sentences so far in 2017, a pace very close to the record-low 31 new death sentences imposed in 2016. Florida's abandonment of non-unanimous jury recommendations of death and Alabama's repeal of judicial override of jury recommendations for life are expected to substantially reduce the number of new death sentences in those states. The death sentences of nearly 100 Florida death-row prisoners have been overturned as a result of the state supreme court's declaration than non-unanimous death sentences are unconstitutional, and courts in Delaware and Connecticut have continued emptying those state's death rows after their death penalty statutes were declared unconstitutional. Three people have been exonerated from death row in 2017—Isaiah McCoy in Delaware, Rodricus Crawford in Louisiana, and Ralph Daniel Wright, Jr. in Florida—bringing the number of death-row exonerations in the U.S. since 1973 to 159. There have also been three grants of clemency in the first half of 2017, bringing the national total since 1976 to 283. President Barack Obama granted clemency to federal death-row prisoner Abelardo Arboleda Ortiz and military death-row prisoner Dwight Loving, and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe granted clemency to Ivan Teleguz. All three are now serving sentences of life without parole. The U.S. Supreme Court has issued three significant decisions in 2017 in favor of death-row prisoners. On February 22, in Buck v. Davis, the Court granted relief to Duane Buck due to racially biased testimony on the issue of future dangerousness. A month later, in Moore v. Texas, the Court unanimously struck down Texas' outlier practice for determining intellectual disability in capital cases. In McWilliams v. Dunn, the Court found on June 19 that James McWilliams' constitutional rights were violated when Alabama failed to provide him assistance of an independent mental-health expert. The Court ruled against Texas death-row prisoner Erick Davila on June 26.
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DULUTH - The Beatles once sang about a taxman. On Thursday at the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce's luncheon at the Arena at Gwinnett Center, the guest speaker was the county's very own version of the taxman except for one minor detail - Congressman John Linder is the FairTax-man, representing Georgia's seventh district.
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One of the coolest plug-ins that I have is called "Decapitator" (made by Soundtoys). It's basically an overdrive plug-in and is as gnarly as its name. It can sound very mild (like adding a little vintage warmness to your input) or sound very very extreme (like sounding like it's going to blow up).
I'm going to show you the extreme difference that the Decapitator can have on an input. Last week I tracked some drums for a composition I'm working on that is supposed to sound like it would fit in a car commercial. The track is supposed to be edgy and wild, while also being kind of playful and fun. I played a standard shuffle beat, which is somewhat light-hearted, but then used the Decapitator to make it sound like it's growling. Here are the original drums (with some basic EQ and compression) and the "decapitated" drums.
Now here is the track as a whole
Two years ago I released a Christmas tune (Angels We Have Heard on High) with the help of my good friend Aaron Tucker. It's available for free download at www.anewnormal.bandcamp.com
One of the most important things in any recording project are the vocals. People will mix vocals differently depending on the project and style of music, but vocals are always a top priority. Sometimes people can get away with 'garage sale' tracking of relatively minor parts of songs, but that is not the case with vocal recordings. For this blog I'm going to feature my good friend and bandmate, Jordan Frye.
Jordan and another bandmate of ours, Josh Miramontes (electric guitar) co-wrote a Christmas song recently and I produced-engineered the tune (I also played percussion and trombone). The song is named California Christmas and will be available online in December.
This song is relatively simple. We tried to focus on being as sweet as possible. Nothing epic or crazy. We want people to feel as if they should be in front of a fire place wrapped in a blanket with their boo. Everything we tracked is minimal, soft, and warm. I used a Telefunken M16 Mk 2 large-diaphragm condenser microphone on Jordan's voice, sent through an Avalon 737 channel strip into my Apogee Ensemble. We tracked six takes of the main vocal melody, then picked our favorite takes from those recordings (vocal comping).
After we found our favorite takes I then proceeded to edit the vocal track. I always start with pitch correction. I use Melodyne to edit pitch and timing for vocals (as well as bass guitar - they are both monophonic). Next I EQ the vocal. Third up I compress the vocal using the CLA Vocal plug-in by Waves. This is a really nice all-purpose plug-in that has pretty much everything you would need for a vocal: EQ, compression, reverb, delay, and chorus (the "pitch" column). Here are the settings that I used from the CLA Vocal plug-in for Jordan's vocal on this song:
In general vocals are always compressed a lot so that you can hear everything really well. I added some large reverb so the vocal doesn't sound quite as dry, but only a little bit so that it doesn't sound too crazy. We really wanted everything to sound warm, natural, and organic.
Here are samples of the first verse of the song. Compare the difference between the dry vocal with no processing and the wet vocal.
Something I try to do as often as I can is re-record beats that I make through a chain of guitar pedals (sometimes reamped through a guitar amp, sometimes not). I like the idea of trying to make the samples sound different than just the stock sounds in Logic, Reason, Ableton Live, etc. Re-recording samples kind of brings them to life. It gives them some character. Warmth, color, grit. It's a lot of work but I think in the end it's worth it. I believe this process helps push a project to the next level.
One of the songs that I focused a lot of this process was the A New Normal song "Hushed Colors" (from the album Raison D'etre ). This whole song basically is about the groove and how the samples continue to change throughout the whole song as I add more layers of efx using guitar pedals.
I wrote a very simple beat. Kick, snare, hi-hat, and a tambourine. BUT the complexity is in how the drums are affected by the pedals. First off I used a real sampled snare of mine (a 6.5x14 Black Panther maple) mixed in with a fake snare in Ableton Live (so the mix was half real snare, half fake snare). The rest of the samples were all digital.
Next I set up all the analog gear. Here was the chain: computer - interface - Radial Engineering reamper DI - Ibanez Keeley mod analog delay - Electro Harmonix memory man analog delay - Line 6 Verbzilla reverb - T.C. Electronic Nova Delay (digital) - Vintage reissue Ampeg SVT-VR head - interface - computer. I did not mic the bass cab because I used the line out on the Ampeg head.
Basically I recorded eight bars of the beat five times total. Each time I would repeat the eight bars I would turn on another guitar pedal. I recorded each section by themselves so that there wouldn't be any noise or interference from turning on or off pedals during the tracking (and allow for any tail from the effects to smoothly decay). Here is a playlist of the different takes in order of how they were recorded:
You'll notice that I also included the "intro" beat at the very bottom of that playlist. At the beginning of the song I recorded the beat through the Nova Delay on it's reverse delay setting. I recorded myself manually changing the delay mix amount from 100% to 0% over the course of 8 bars. Here is the complete song:
I do a lot of sampling in projects that I am a part of. Whether it's my solo electronic project A New Normal, writing background tracks for my band Urban Rescue, producing songs for singer-songwriters, or composing scores for films, I really like using real-world sounds and making weird/cool noises that make the track stand out.
I want to share a couple different examples of how I've done this in the past.
First is a tune from the A New Normal album Raison D'etre. It is track two entitled "Typewritten". This song started out when I had just purchased an Avalon 737 channel strip and wanted to test it out on some stuff. I was working at a camp at the time and had borrowed a typewriter to write some letters to a couple friends. When I was writing one of the letters I thought to myself "what if I sampled the typewriter and created a beat out of the sounds???". So the next day I proceeded to record a bunch of different things on the typewriter (one letter at at a time, pressing the space bar quickly, holding the space bar down, hitting the return button, etc.). This is the beat that ended up being used on the track:
Now here is the song (the beat comes in around 0:23):
In the past I have also sampled different sounds to use as textures in the background of a song. In the most recent A New Normal EP (Taize ) I sampled the ambient sounds of people waiting for a service to begin in a Catholic church. This track is called "Nous Et La Paix" (French for 'us and peace') and it is the last track on the album. The song itself is very peaceful and quiet, and I wanted to fill the space in the background with something not too obnoxious or annoying. I really like the use of it because you hear a lot of really quiet noises but nothing to crazy. I also really like the idea that the people are all waiting for something (in this case, for the service to start). I want the listener to also feel as if he or she is peacefully waiting for something. I want the listener to feel expectant.
Here is the sample:
And here is the song:
For the sample of the church I used a Sony PCM-M10 stereo field recorder. I purchased this about 6 months ago and it has been really useful. Instead of having to lug around a computer, recording interface, and a mic (not to mention finding power), all I need to do is bring along this small field recorder. It records in high quality WAV files and is perfect for recording things that could be used as background effects or beats.
A little while back I had the opportunity to record Bryan B. William again. This session, similar to past sessions, was all recorded live (except for one tune, written by Tracy Le). The album isn't out yet but here's one of the songs we recorded. It's a cover of "Who's Gonna Save My Soul Now" by Gnarls Barkley.
Inputs from this song:
1) Vocal - Telfunken M16 Mk2 through an Avalon 737 (used Logic amp-simulator plug-in to give his voice a vintage-sounding tone)
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One question that has puzzled many, many people is "how do I get a good live drum recording?" I myself have recorded a lot of drums for different projects and have been searching to try and make them sound GOOD. In general, if you have a few good mics and preamps, you can make most things sound nice (vocals, acoustic guitars, keys, electric guitars, etc.). BUT recording drums is a whole new ball game.
Think about it. Most times when you go into a studio engineers can use up to nineteen mics on a drumkit. NINETEEN MICS. Prices range from $100-$10,000. And that's just mics (not including preamps, compressors, limiters, mixing board, etc.). It's all really overwhelming when you sit down to think about it. Check out this video to see how famous mixer/engineer Chris Lord Alge records drums.
Over the course of my adventures in recording I've learned a lot and believe that I've come to a place where I can record drums and make them sound relatively good. In this blog I want to show you what I've done on a recent drum recording I did. I've bounced each mic on the recording and separated them into different Soundcloud sets. You can listen through them and see how they sound with each mic/preamp, and then see how they sound after I started putting plug-ins on them.
Each mic will be listed with a number next to it. Each one of these represents a certain point in the chain while editing. I start from nothing and then add on top (each number indicates how many plug-ins are going; they are not just showing what each plug-in itself sounds like alone). Here is a list of what the numbers represent:
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3 = PSP Oldtimer (compressor)
4 = Soundtoys Decapitator
After showing you what each mic sounds like by themselves, there will be a sound file of the whole thing mixed together.
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14"x22" vintage Rogers kick drum, mic'd with a Shure Beta52 in the hole of the resonant side of the drum
Mic'd with a Telefunken M16 mk2 in the super-cardioid pattern, placed on the outside of the resonant side of the drum (above Beta52)
Two 17" crashes were used as hi-hats for this recording. Mic'd with a Rode NT1
Mic'd with a matched pair of Neumann KM184s placed on the left and right side of the kit about 10 feet back (the distance was to capture a more roomy effect on the kit)
Mic'd with a Royer 122 ribbon, placed about 40 feet back from the kit. Used to capture a big room sound and to achieve a natural grittiness that ribbon mics provide.
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