Definition Of Insanity

[LLL]

Re: Definition Of Insanity

I don't doubt it. Hearing some of the more recent material, I am happy they dropped all of that. But I'd still love for them to have a decent recorded drum sound.

Did you read the part about the Fairlight sampler they used on those earlier albums? Whodathunkit Pyromania didn't have real drums? I was surprised actually.

 

[Mincer]

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I don't know if I can put their success down to their drum sound, though. It just seems like a lot of work to get a drum sound that isn't an improvement over a well-mic'ed, well played kit.

 

[Joey Voltage]

Re: Definition Of Insanity

I don't doubt it. Hearing some of the more recent material, I am happy they dropped all of that. But I'd still love for them to have a decent recorded drum sound.

Well im sure It became very taxing to make an album that way. Mutt was really the push behind a lot of that as well, and he was pretty much out of the picture by the time adrenaline rolled around.

Also I know rick does use an acoustic kit somewhat these days, but fully going back may be a lot to ask from somebody missing some bits.

 

[Kamanda~SD]

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Did you read the part about the Fairlight sampler they used on those earlier albums? Whodathunkit Pyromania didn't have real drums? I was surprised actually.

Interesting, Pyromania always sounded sampled to me.

Well im sure It became very taxing to make an album that way. Mutt was really the push behind a lot of that as well, and he was pretty much out of the picture by the time adrenaline rolled around.

Also I know rick does use an acoustic kit somewhat these days, but fully going back may be a lot to ask from somebody missing some bits.

Very true. However Pyromania he still had 'all his bits'.

IIRC he always still used real cymbals, and recently I BELIEVE it's an acoustic snare, but everything else isn't.

EDIT: Did a quick search, so looks like kick drum is acoustic now too HOWEVER due to the way he has to play he has pedals for both snare and kick as well...so depending on the song or even the part you may hear the mic'd up or the sample.

 

[DankStar]

Re: Definition Of Insanity

Pour Some Samples on Me

 

[LLL]

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Interesting, Pyromania always sounded sampled to me.

Back when it came out none of us (kids of my generation) knew any better. We'd never heard of a "Fairlight" let alone a mixing console.

I am surprised to this day, however, because that's just something that you don't do in RAWK... especially way back in the early 80s!

Leave that sampling stuff to the New Wave and Prince types, dontchaknow?

I get the concept behind it; he wanted everything to sound larger than life... like Star Wars (as he mentioned in the interview).

 

[LLL]

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Pour Some Samples on Me

High 'n' Dry (Sampling Night)
Samplefright
Sample Sample Til You Drop
Samplin'
Sample Brigade

 

[PS412]

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High 'n' Dry (Sampling Night)
Samplefright
Sample Sample Til You Drop
Samplin'
Sample Brigade

You forgot God's of Sample
We're fightin for the god's of sample,but what the hell we fightin for?
We're fightin for the god's of sample, why the hell is this gotta sound so ample?

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Definition Of Insanity

Drum samples started entering rock music in the early ‘80s. Once they crept in, they never left, but no one really interviewed the mix engineers back then. It was assumed the drums were all analogue, but Clearmountain had started using drum samples in rock music as early as 81-82...