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Depends on how they were recorded...and ROOM...

Many jazz recordings I own are live take "Sessions"...
So many variables from close mic recording, to PZM's...to room...actual soundstage set-up...panning...dynamics of the person drumming...

Many times, drums are the only instruments recorded in a separate room away from all the other hot mics during live recordings...most of the time during track recording...drums are laid down first most of the time and everyone else plays over them...they can become just a slider on the mixing board...

Allot of the 70's drum sounds are so over-dampened they truly sound like card board boxes....lots of dead sounding drums with no sustain or room ambience....

The 80's electronic drums are the worst...drums that ping and not ring...over use of the Clap-trap, where a clapping sound replaces or is louder than a snare drum...aka a lil ditty about Jack and Diane...

90's small kits, big drums, heavy hitters...RAP forces and sells deep bass drum sounds...that can ONLY be made electronically...sampling beats and playing lower and louder over them...the birth of the subwoofer and the death to natural sounding bass?? Maybe....

00's home theater rules the world...must have rumble...millions of Best Buy Fart boxes sold in that "satellite package"...most not worthy of the LFE channel....which forces us to specify and create the term..."Musical Sub"...much different animal than just HT IMHO....

Sorry for the rant...I really love great sounding drum kits and the drummers/producers/engineers that take the time and effort for a great drum sound...

Good post...
thanks
Mark


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