Recording Tip:
This technique is called "georging" or "arthuring" in other places.... if you find that your snare sound is weak when mixing a project, or is unsatisfactory and you need more of a fuller sound ( when EQing doesnt seem to work ), find a 6" to 8" speaker ( a car speaker works nice ) and place it on top of a snare drum, face down...then run the speaker to the output of an amp....and out of one of your auxilleries out of your board run to the input of the amp...use that aux only for the snare part originally recorded.....play the tape and only the snare part should be produced through the speaker firing down upon the snare drum.....mic this setup with a 57 or some other comparable mic....you will achieve a fatter snare sound synced exactly with the original. This is almost a rigged way of "Doubling." if there is bleed over in the original snare part from other instruments, you can gate the signal on the aux out to keep any other noise from the newly tracked part. i hope this tip is easy to understand, as it is hard to relay without diagrams...also...another tip is to do this when the band, especially the drummer is not present...perhaps when they have gone for the evening...i hope this helps....
casey c.
