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hells-kitchen
Gordon Ramsey yells at Dewberry in Season 1 of the TV show Hell's Kitchen. This song was written and recorded for the Song-A-Day project (29.netscrap.com)
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MBO on November 07, 2008 01:04
Why is the simple, EQ friendly wonder of the shaker so maligned? Shaker works wonders.
Hi Hats are ugly and venal..unless you get lucky and find some REAL good ones..or if your John Bonham or Ringo and know how to play them. Or maybe if they are not opened at all...
I loathe them almost as much as I loathe cymbals,which we, by route, now overdub.
And everyone knows that the best sounding Beatles recordings were Hi Hat shy.
I say record without them and fill in the space with percussion..or NOTHING AT ALL!
Someone needs to do something about Hi Hats
- cardwalker
cardwalker at 0.55 on November 06, 2008 02:01
@MBO: So you agree with me that hihats are the devil's instrument - and should be BANNED from drumkits altogether? One of the great mysteries of life is that one sees hundreds of photos taken of drums being miked up in studios, and there's always a HH mike. That means the HH is not nearly loud enough and must be boosted in level for most drum recordings. Huh? Could you imagine INCREASING the level of the HH track?
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cardwalker at 0.55 on November 02, 2008 09:04
@MBO: Yes it is, but there's nothing I can do to change it. This was recorded with 3 mics: U87 overhead, SM81 below the snare and a D112 on the kick. I've been experimenting lately with Moongel on the hi hats, just to tame the highs a bit. I think it helps, but even though I hit them fairly lightly, the compression brings out the fizzy high frequencies on the hats, which I hate. What I really need are clanky-sounding hats.
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