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Recording drums. Mics and miking. Snares and Kicks.

Joey Jordison snare drum and mics
Joey Jordison Signature
Snare drum (JJ-1355) by Pearl

the FOCUS of our first installment in a series of presentation and demonstration of Drum Mics and Miking of Snare, Kick and the Drum Kit.

The Joey Jordison signature snare has a 6-1/2â€³ x 13â€³ by 1mm steel shell with Black Super Hoops and Masters double-ended lugs and a SR-017 strainer. The snare's batter head is a REMO Weatherking Powerstroke and an Ambassador on the resonant head.

Inside, we present streaming audio clips of the mic'd drumkit and its parts; the snare and kick mic'd direct and the overhead sound of the entire drumkit. Click to read more and listen to these audio demonstrations of the different sonic qualities each microphone has and how it affects the sound.

Posted at 7pm on 09/12/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Drums, Recording-Tracking, samples sounds
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Mark Harada Australian Singer/Songwriter

Mark Harada Australian singer songwriter in the studio Mark Harada is a singer/songwriter from Sydney, Australia who spent 1 week at our recording studio in Makati recording drums, bass, guitar and vocals for his original compositions.

Mark's tunes can be called folk/alternative, singer/songwriter style ala Wilco, Pete Yorn... melancholic, happy, earthy, real and authentic. Lots of vibe in the songs, really really nice to listen to.

Inside, you can watch a video clip of Mark Harada in the studio and listen to clips of his original song compositions.

Posted at 3pm on 04/22/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Drums, Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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Mridangam, Drum from South India played by Canadian Singer/Songwriter

Mridangam South India drum played by James from Canada We would like to share these session photos of James Roop playing the Mridangam, a two sided drum/percussion instrument used in South Indian music. During the session, we called the instrument either bongos or drums, but we were all curious what this drum instrument is really called.

Thanks to Wikipedia, now we have an idea...

The mridangam is a double-sided drum whose body is usually made using a hollowed piece of jackfruit wood about an inch thick. The two mouths or apertures of the drum are covered with a goat skin leather and laced to each other with leather straps around the circumference of drum. These straps are put into a state of high tension to stretch out the circular membranes on either side of the hull, allowing them to resonate when struck. These two membranes are dissimilar in width to allow for the production of both bass and treble sounds from the same drum.

James is a Canadian singer/songwriter currently based in the Philippines. Click the title for more information about this South India drum recording session.

Posted at 9am on 03/19/08 | 4 comments | Filed Under: Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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Foley sounds: Fireworks and firecracker explosions in the Philippines

Posted at 11am on 01/02/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Gear, Recording-Tracking, samples sounds
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Live Remote Recording with MacbookPro Digi 003 Rack

Live music recording studio remote audio I received my brand spanking new MacBook Pro just a day before the Blueskrieg Blues Night special at 19East - this is a special concert production for us coz of Binky and Lampano Alley in the artist lineup - I've always intended to record and video the gig since getting the date confirmed 10 days ago.

Anyway, I trust Mac's with ProTools so much that I went ahead with the live remote recording intent despite limited runtime with the Macbook Pro (a 2.4 Dual Core with 4Gigs of RAM). I recorded 8 tracks from the Midas Legend 3000 board's direct out...

Inside, hear the mixed audio tracks

Posted at 6pm on 09/06/07 | no comments | Filed Under: Gear, Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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Royer SF-12 stereo ribbon microphone for easy Blumlein & MS recordings

microphone stereo Royer SF-12 ribbon mic Drum Overhead We're excited to enter the wonderful world of easy* stereo recordings – with excellent analog sound quality – as the Royer SF-12 stereo coincident ribbon microphone can deliver. We put up the Royer SF-12 as overhead mic on drums – which in hindsight was appropriate for the session – a punk (speed punk) style of drumming with lots of hits (LOTS of hits) – from the kick drum to the snare to the cymbals. Here are some photos of the drum microphone setup for that session with the Royer SF-12 about 6.5feet high in the middle of the drum kit. Just one more sound weaving options for drummers – only at Sound Weavers. Enjoy the drum recording session photos inside.

Posted at 11pm on 07/10/07 | no comments | Filed Under: Gear, Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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Recording in the trenches, haul the studio out to record a baby grand piano

Lunchbox 002 MP20 PL-2 p38 R800 DAT Piano Recording Session One lazy Wednesday afternoon in April, I was thrilled and challenged by a rather unique call - for Sound Weavers to record a baby grand piano concert to be performed at a particular residence. Hmmm, ok. So I have always thought that such a remote recording requirement will come, and I have been surely preparing for - ensuring that our recording studio staff and equipment will be ready for such task when the opportunity, time - and the call - comes knocking. Here's how we did it, recording in the trenches baby!

Posted at 7pm on 05/02/07 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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Fire hits the studio

No, not that “fire” – but that fiery FIREBOTTLE blues band fronted by Joric Maglanque AKA DELTA SLIM – a self confessed soul dredger, err, soul bender – one of the few local ambassadors of blues music (don’t even bring up blues in a conversation unless you are ready to sit for a blues history lesson – LOL).

Firebottle blues band in the recording studio

Firebottle in the recording

Posted at 5pm on 10/18/06 | no comments | Filed Under: Gear, Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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Snakecharmer Sting Me with the Blues

SNAKECHARMER is one of the bands playing blues-based music featured in the BLUESKRIEG compilation CD project. If the name rings a bell, it's coz they are very active in the live music scene spreading the gospel of the blues.

SNAKECHARMER plays a modern sounding kind of blues music along the lines of The Black Crowes. Snakecharmer is composed of Jason on vocals and harmonica, Mitch on bass guitar, Zan on rhythm and lead guitar, Reuben on rhythm and slide guitar, Mon on drums and Roneil on keyboards.

Posted at 7am on 10/09/06 | no comments | Filed Under: Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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BluesKrieg! Pinoy blues bands attack the studio

CHESTER of PLUG with Fender Stratocaster guitar THE BLUES is alive and well in the Philippines - well in the Metro at least - next year BLUES will surely spill and explode throughout the country. BLUES ATTACK = Blueskrieg.

August and September was especially exciting here at Sound Weavers coz of recording sessions for the BluesKrieg project - an ambitious CD compilation featuring Pinoy blues-based music only and played by a current crop of blues-based bands, er.. "artistes" actively playing Metro Manila's club circuit.

Posted at 8am on 09/30/06 | 5 comments | Filed Under: Recording-Tracking, Sessions & Projects
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