Mike Malyan - 'Horcrux' by Monuments - Drum Playthrough

This video was recorded in 1 take. No audio edits, comps or triggers!

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This video was made from 1 single take. I did another take before this one, but I made many mistakes.
All of my other videos over the years feature extensive take-swapping and editing (time correction). I have decided that I'd rather post more honest covers, and encourage my listeners and viewers to hear what is *actually* being played.

The backing track to this video is made from the original stems that were made at the time of making the album.

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Video Filming and Audio Recording by Mike Malyan

Audio Mixed by Justin Woodward

Video Edited by Joey Aitchison @ JWA Creations

Equipment Used:

DAW: Cubase 10.5 Pro
Interface & Preamps: Behringer XR18 Digital Mixer

Drum Kit used:
Vibe Drum Aluminium Acoustic Drum Kit:
22x18 Kick Drum
10x9, 12x10, 16x14 Toms

Snare Drum:
14x5.5 DW Performance Series Steel Snare

Cymbals (Left to Right):
Meinl Vintage 20" Crash
Meinl Pure Alloy 14" Hi-Hats
Meinl Pure Alloy 16" Crash
Meinl Byzance 12" Splash
Meinl Signature Benny Greb Crasher Hats
Meinl Pure Alloy 18" Crash
Meinl MB20 20" Medium Heavy Ride
Meinl Classics Custom 18" Extreme Metal China
Stack: Meinl MB20 20" Rock China (Lip Up) under a Byzance 19" Medium Thin Crash

Drum Heads:
Evans UV2 on Snare & Tom Batter
Evans G1 on Tom Resonants
Evans Hazy 300 on Snare Resonant
Evans EQ4 Frosted on Kick Batter
Evans EQ3 Resonant on Kick Resonant (with printed Amanuensis artwork)

Sticks Used:
ProMark Hickory Forward 5B Sticks (FBH595TW)

Drum Hardware:
Pearl Icon Curved Drum Rack
Gibraltar, DW & Tama Cymbal Stands
Tama 1st Chair Ergo Rider Stool w/Backrest
DW 9000 Double Bass pedal with ACD Driveshaft Upgrade
DW 9000 Hi-Hat stand

Mics:
Kick In - Audio Technica ATM250DE
Kick Out - AKG D12
Subkick - Homemade 1500w Car Subwoofer
Snare Top - Beyerdynamic M201n(c)
Snare Bottom - Aston Stealth in G mode
Toms 1 & 2 - Beyerdynamic M201n(c)
Floor Tom - Sennheiser MD421 in fully M mode
Overheads x2 - Aston Starlight in Hybrid mode
Cymbal Spot Mics x3 (Hats, Ride/mini-hats, Stack) - Rode NT5
Room mics 2x Shure SM57

Cameras:
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K (Side Angle)
GoPro Hero 3+ Black (Birds Eye Angle)
Zoom Q8 (Foot Cam)

[LoganCovers]

Drums are better mixed than on the album!

[ooxlinusxoo]

Man, I watch this at least once every week or two to keep me motivated to get better. Love your style!

[NpHiLTeR]

The grace you show on those fills are on another level dude

[andys]

Another good one Mike. The part at 3:17 always got me. I never knew by ear exactly what you were doing

[ianmacleod]

Mix is amazing, this is also a very fun song to try and play. Awesome writing skills 😎

[MannyMo_]

Patiently waiting for Mike to do some more play throughs

[Lirothium]

Good stuff, Mike! Would love to see you play Garden of Sankhara next!

[LucianBlack]

This makes my squishy bits do backflips

[tictac]

The floor tom sound is incredible in this, love to hear it

[chrisvandermark]

Offt! This is where it is at! The groove and feel is absolutely flawless here! Excellent execution!
Can agree that a Garden of Sankhara play through would be amazing too!

[abhigyanbora]

Love the new screen and lighting. And as always, awesome playthrough for an awesome song.

[matttetrick]

The one thing that has attracted my to your playing, and honestly Monuments as a whole, is how independent and powerful your left half is. There is something about how you maintain groove with your right side, and accent so perfectly with the left. It's what I feel so many drummers are lacking. It's what keeps Amanuensis in my top albums. It's what I enjoyed about your work with DMM as well. I'm so happy you're back and able to continue to be such a big inspiration for me. Keep the groove alive my friend.
P.S. My friend and I got a chance to talk to you and John at your first show for the Amanuensis album at the Palladium in Worcester, MA. It was one of the more chill concert experiences I've ever had. Also I'd love to see vids of I, the Destroyer and Quasimodo. Hands down my favorite tracks.

[TheBadThad]

Thanks for the fan food! So great to hear you playing these Monuments songs again!

[RahulSharma-wfno]

One of my favourite song and drums horcrux

[supersportlover]

dude u r amazing the sound is amazing aswell .thank you for letting us notice the drum line in their songs lol. same lvl of epicness with their guitars.

[cbaum]

This is the best one yet, dude! And the snare sounds immaculate

[wilhelmlinneby]

Man, so good!
Still one of my all time favourite drummers!

[stev]

Dude. Your work on Amuensis is fricken incredible. Keep it up man!

[jeffreydheere]

One of my favorites from Monuments off the Amanuensis - I've watched you play them all but this one earned a Subscriber. Not an extremely technical track but I love the color you add to make this a magical track.

[teejay]

Whoah! Incredible job man. Your time sig changes were so on point and the sheer number of hits?! Awesome