Im new to Janek as an amazing bass player as I'm learning myself. Originally a guitar player and drummer, I've idolized Benny for years! You two are such an incredible inspiration.
Time and sound. Someone may find this approach of interest… In my drum room I don’t use close mics for recording. I use two sets of overheads for which I use AI gating, one pair for the cymbals and one pair for toms, snare and kick. I use one kick mic 3 feet from the kick and one snare mic over my head. Both these mics also work with AI gating. I don’t worry about phase cancellation, because none of the mics are near each other. To keep the stereo image of the drums true and balanced, the kick and snare are physically placed in line with each other with the use of an offset kick pedal. I use a 24 x 24 kick drum and a 12 x 5 snare drum. This keeps the volume, pitch and tone balanced. When I mention AI gating, I mean plug-ins like the Oxford drum gate and so on, I might also use my API plug-in for gating. This whole set up took me a couple years to figure out and of course, it was expensive.
Wow! Gold! The quality of questions and answers on this interview. So many takeaways and honestly it was like a mini masterclass. I sincerely hope you do more of these interviews Janek! It’s a whole different story to hear a conversation between two great musicians who have walked the path. Otherwise it’s mostly a standard stimulus and the conversation ends because the guy conducting the interview has no idea of what the follow up question is for that concept …Looking forward to hopefully many more interviews! Best Wishes. Thank you :)
amazing interview!
Im new to Janek as an amazing bass player as I'm learning myself. Originally a guitar player and drummer, I've idolized Benny for years! You two are such an incredible inspiration.
Great conversation!
Ignorant me did not know of Benny Greb...
Well, that changed after listening today, 😄.
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Great talk and very interesting topics! Thank you to both of you for this funny hour! All the best, Jochen
Time and sound. Someone may find this approach of interest… In my drum room I don’t use close mics for recording. I use two sets of overheads for which I use AI gating, one pair for the cymbals and one pair for toms, snare and kick. I use one kick mic 3 feet from the kick and one snare mic over my head. Both these mics also work with AI gating. I don’t worry about phase cancellation, because none of the mics are near each other. To keep the stereo image of the drums true and balanced, the kick and snare are physically placed in line with each other with the use of an offset kick pedal. I use a 24 x 24 kick drum and a 12 x 5 snare drum. This keeps the volume, pitch and tone balanced. When I mention AI gating, I mean plug-ins like the Oxford drum gate and so on, I might also use my API plug-in for gating. This whole set up took me a couple years to figure out and of course, it was expensive.
Great episode, and I laughed a lot more than I expected to.
Wow! Gold! The quality of questions and answers on this interview. So many takeaways and honestly it was like a mini masterclass. I sincerely hope you do more of these interviews Janek! It’s a whole different story to hear a conversation between two great musicians who have walked the path. Otherwise it’s mostly a standard stimulus and the conversation ends because the guy conducting the interview has no idea of what the follow up question is for that concept …Looking forward to hopefully many more interviews! Best Wishes. Thank you :)
I hope you do another one with Benny really soon :)
Liked and subbed! Benny is my fav