Hearing the letters DW, the rest of the band couldn't sit still. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Even if you are not a drummer, but as long as you play in a band, there is nothing that musicians don't know about this best drum and the only brand that only accepts customization and no finished suits, and the more excellent the musicians, the more they know the excellence of DW. Compared to DW, TMAM and Pearl, the world's top two best-selling ones, may be a great commercial success, but in terms of the average quality of the instruments, it is really far from the same. DW's fully customized strategy makes each drum set they produce unique, not to mention the beauty of DW's drum sound. Of course, there is no denying that the top drum kits of tama and pearl are also excellent. However, in contrast, DW has nothing bad at all, and what comes out is the best.

This is the consensus of everyone in the band circle, but the price of DW drum sets is high, and now the price starts at least 15,000 meters in this era, which is rare in mainland China.

I didn't expect Ye Zi's recording studio to hide such a treasure.

“dw？ Xiaoyezi, are you sure that set of drums in it is dw? True or fake? Huang Zhijian pulled Ye Zi and asked quietly but eagerly.

"Little Bell" They all looked at Ye Zi with blazing eyes.

Ye Zi pursed his lips: "Cut, why am I lying to you, I can't get any benefits, I don't believe that I can go in and take a look." ”

"It's going to see, it's going to see." Huang Zhijian muttered.

"Then what are you waiting for, let's go." The most anxious is the "little bell" every time.

"Let's go, let's see." Lao Dai is usually silent, but at this time, he is quite actively urging.

"Little Mouse" Zou Cheng didn't say a word at all, and walked directly to the recording room. After walking a few steps, he turned around and shouted.

"Let's go."

Well, the musicians in the control room immediately walked away. Yang Zhengming was the last to get up, but he became the first when he entered the recording studio.

Others use it to walk, but he uses it to run.

……

"Lao Yang, you step on the kick drum a few more times......"

Ye Zi stood in front of the mixer, listening to the sound of the kick drum from the monitor speaker very carefully, picking up the monitor headphones from time to time and putting them on, listening to them for a while and then taking them off, and then listening to the sound in the speaker, comparing the difference between the two, and carefully adjusting the parameters of the kick drum.

Sentence by sentence requests were transmitted from the intercom microphone on the mixer to Yang Zhengming's monitoring headphones.

"Lao Yang, you tilt the kick drum microphone a little more, and the distance is one centimeter closer...... Okay? Okay, you step on it twice more, and I'll listen. ”

"Good, good sound. Lao Yang, beat the snare drum twice...... Don't stop, keep coming back...... Good, good. ”

"Now you use the kick drum and the snare drum at the same time, and I'll listen to the balance of the sound."

"Tsk, Lao Yang, I'm sorry, you have to pull the kick drum microphone a little farther away, about half a centimeter...... Okay, one more time. ”

"Okay, you try the toms, come over one by one, and start with the toms."

"Alright, Lao Yang, the kick drum, the snare drum, and the tom drum will come at the same time."

"I'm rubbing! It's unbalanced! I%#^*......"

"I'm sorry, Lao Yang, I have to adjust it a little more, please push the kick drum microphone a little more, a little bit is enough. Also, you tilt the snare mic a little bit...... Crooked outward, a little bit is enough. ”

"Okay, Lao Yang, come again, I'll listen to the effect."

"Well, that's right."

"Lao Yang, you hit the cymbal."

"It's hi-hat ......"

"Lao Yang, now you come to the whole set of drums, don't stop, I'll do the balance."

Tom-to-dong...... Knock Knock...... Knock Knock Knock......

Yang Zhengming played the drum non-stop, and Ye Zi was seriously adjusting various parameters on the mixer, the low cut of the low cut, the high cut of the high cut, and the removal of the excess unnecessary extra sound. However, the EQ (sound frequency) and compression adjustments do not stop there, they cannot be done at the same time until all the instruments have been recorded, and this adjustment needs to take into account the balance between the various instruments.

Recording drums is really quite difficult and time-consuming, and the most difficult thing is to make the sound of the drum itself fully visible on the basis of balancing the sound of the whole set of drums, and at the same time it can be in excellent harmony with various instruments.

In order to do this, not to mention anything else, before recording the drums, Ye Zi and Yang Zhengming were busy together for half an hour just to put a recording microphone in place. The kick drum should be placed with a microphone, the snare drum should be placed with a microphone, the hi-hat and cymbal should be placed with a microphone to receive the sound, and sometimes the tom drum should also be placed with a microphone.

Think these microphones are enough?

Oh, that's not enough.

In front of the drum set, one or two microphones are placed to collect the most natural sound of the drum set. Sometimes a second radio microphone is placed slightly above the drummer's head.

In this way, you need at least seven or eight microphones for drum recording, and it's not unusual to use a dozen microphones. And the characteristics of these microphones are all different, and the choice will definitely be different.

The dynamic of the kick drum is the largest, and you can only use a dynamic microphone to pick up the sound. Tender condenser microphones, then wait for the condenser microphones to "collect the corpse", they will definitely not be able to withstand the impact of instantaneous large dynamic and loud sound pressure like the kick drum; It's best to use a long, slim pencil-like microphone on the snare drum and "squeeze" it over the snare with an angled bracket, leaving it at the edge of the head so that it doesn't get hit by the sticks. The dynamics and volume of the snare drum determine that it is best to use a "rough-skinned" dynamic microphone in this place; If the microphone above the cymbal and cymbal is placed perpendicular to the cymbal, and as far away from the snare drum as possible to avoid recording too much snare drum sound, then the cardioid microphone is a good choice; As for the ceiling-mounted microphones used to collect the sound of the entire drum set, the large-diaphragm condenser microphone is of course the preferred favorite of the recording engineer.

A single microphone has so much attention (only a small part, hehe), each microphone needs to be carefully placed and debugged, including angle, distance, phase, parameters, directivity, low cut and high cut, etc., the whole set of drums are all debugged in place, of course, it will take a long time.

However, with the uninterrupted joint efforts of Ye Zi and Yang Zhengming for two or three hours, this set of DW drums from the original high-priced custom drum set from the United States is gradually exuding a strange and charming light in the monitors.

……

"I'm rubbing! Brother San, the sound of this set of drums is too good! After using this set of drums, can Brother Yang's set of tama still be used? Throw it away. ”

Ye Zi and Yang Zhengming were both working seriously, and the other musicians gathered in front of the mixer to listen to the debugging of the drum kit, chatting quietly.

They're not monotonous.

Huang Zhijian smiled: "How is it possible to throw it away?" That also cost Lao Yang a lot of money, but Lao Yang will definitely have a headache this time. After using this set of dw, I guess for a long time, he will look at his own set of "superstars" very unpleasantly. Hahaha, this is fun, this must be fun, I just want to see Lao Yang frowning and drumming. ”

"Ah San, you can gloat, be careful that Lao Yang finds you." Lao Dai looked at Huang Zhijian with a smile: "Now Xiaoyezi can buy DW here, in case Lao Yang is ruthless and asks you to borrow money to buy DW, then what should you do, ah?" ”

"Stop laughing, think about this first."

Lao Dai told Huang Zhijian not to laugh, but he himself laughed like an old fox.

"I'll rub!" Huang Zhijian was suddenly shocked.

What Lao Dai said about this thing is not casual nonsense, but it is very likely to appear. For musicians of their level, if there is no chance, then forget it, if there is an opportunity to buy the best instrument like Lao Dai just said, it is really a person who would rather go bankrupt and borrow money from everywhere to buy it.

Once they have it, they will stop.

Huang Zhijian himself is in such a situation, the fenda electric guitar he is using now in his hand cost him nearly 60,000 yuan Huaxia coins, specially entrusted someone to bring it back from the United States, and he just begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to borrow a large amount of money to make up the amount.

Yang Zhengming's expression and demeanor when he looked at this set of DW today are much more invested than he usually looks at his girlfriend, so it is likely that the probability of this incident happening is likely to be as high as 99%. If Yang Zhengming wants to borrow money to buy drums, Huang Zhijian, the band leader, will definitely not be able to escape.

How can this keep Huang Zhijian from panicking?

All his money is now invested in the recording of the album, where is the extra money to lend Yang Zhengming!

This damn dw! (To be continued.) )