Recording 70s Drum Sounds

I was asked to record drums on a song that required a vintage 70s style drum sound. The drums had to be very focused and tight sounding but while still sounding fat and full. I tuned and tweaked the snare drum, bass drum and toms to fit this style of vintage sound.

The choices of mic placement, Eq and compression were based on the song I was tracking to. These aspects will vary depending on your song, but that basic on how to get this style of old school vintage 70s drum sound can work in many situations.

[RexSolet]

How does this not have more views, this was extremely helpful

[Zarabozo]

This was great. Although I gotta say: the final/general EQ is way too fat (as in low frequencies) for the 70s standard. But sounds great for a modern recording that wants that 70s character.

[chromebull]

That 18" bass drum sounds like a 30" bass drum! So cool!

[michaelweston]

So good to watch someone who actually achieves what we’re looking for with no BS and shows us in a minute or two how to replicate it! So many of these ‘top producers’ on YouTube talk for hours and have 25 mics on the kit and it sounds like crap! More vids like this
How about getting a Bill Ward (black sabbath)sound?
Keep going!

[marianonanokopp]

Woww my vieja! That’s the sound that I’ve been looking for!!

[FlawlessKlang]

Thanks. Exactly what I was looking for.

[IsaacMontsMusic]

Great tones man! Im getting into recording more vintage drums so this was a helpful video! Thank you!

[RaleighTHEVAMP]

Appreciate u & this vid.. I’m sure I’m not the only one who is rooting for u to make more... great insight, plus everything including your drumming, mic placement, and mix processing techniques are all very solid (imo). Overall sound is top tier.

[hamiltongomesdasilva]

3:20 beautyfull sound of snare drums!

[DenysZhuravel]

You got a very cool sound. Thank you for a tutorial!

[EddieHernandezBandera]

No sé cómo llegué aquí, pero estoy agradecido, buen video hermano. <3

[Tinglemusic]

YEA!! so cool. love the sound youre getting there

[manugonzalez]

Great Video! Thank you for your time and good taste.

[jl]

Really really cool. And the way you did the video is so good and informative with no talking etc. As someone else says below, no BS! I'm curious about the sympathetic ringing from, I assume, the toms reso heads, which I have when I try this sort of thing, and it sort of drives me nuts. I realize it would mostly disappear when putting music over it, but did you consider eliminating it?

[Nethanel]

Talk about hacking it to get your sound! Great job! Thanks for putting this up.

[umraansyed]

You really need to leave the captions up for longer. I’m like 3 lines in before it moves to the next slide.

[yunglotusx]

I just came across this video, pretty informative and we use similar VST'S haha

[Marlorouse]

Great job! Sounds clean and 70'ish .

[jdanielcramer]

Real cool, just give us mire time to read!

[merchannel]

Soo good! Dude please explain how to achieve tame Impala’s Currents drum sound.