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Tweak Of The Week!
June 24th 1996

This top audio tip provided by Barnaby,working with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC, producing a half hour, weekly, educational children's radio drama called Kinetic City Super Crew

Big Kick Technique

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Here's a kick drum technique I've had fun with. Works great for that in your face, chest pumping kick - like you might need in R&B.

An AKG D12 or D112 works well in the kick. A good two mic technique is a 57, D12 (112), RE20 or favorite dynamic mic in the drum picking up the skin You get less low freq the closer you are to the skin, and or putting the mic off axis reduces flab. Then put short gobos or folding chairs either side of the exit of the drum, drape moving blankets over it all to make a sort of closed off tunnel about four feet out. Then put an RE20 or D12 in there at the end of the tunnel. Low frequency doesn't really develop until a ways out from the drum. It'll give you serious low frequency! Mix the two signals together. Add limiters/expanders to taste.

Certainly not a jazz technique! Barnaby

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