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Title: Frame drum distortion
Post by: thunderbolt on April 15, 2013, 08:14:00 PM

Recorded a six-piece arabic-themed band, on stage.  Schoeps MK. 21 (on stage, 2', NOS, some 12 feet to the player) > CMC5 U > 744T.  Very end of show.  Sounds clean except here, never hit peak (-12dB average).  No problems at any other point in the show.  Plenty of battery power.


http://soundcloud.com/backwoodsman-1/drum-clip-wav

Not sure what is happening here.  The frame drum was large, perhaps 4 feet in diameter (looks like a huge bodhran).  Sympathetic vibrations?  One guy was playing a "Riq," a kind of tambourine.  Not sure if that was interacting.   Thoughts?

Title: Re: Frame drum distortion
Post by: Gutbucket on April 15, 2013, 08:38:11 PM

Sounds like sympethetic vibrations from the drum exciting an acoustic resonance in something else nearby.  Could be the tamborine, or something else loose and buzzy.  The snare drum rattle effect.

That's not distortion, that's timbre.  ;)

Title: Re: Frame drum distortion
Post by: thunderbolt on April 15, 2013, 08:57:07 PM

Thanks, Gut.  There was a "cajon" next to the player, a drum-box that is sat on and struck, and it has tambourine-like mechanisms inside.  May have interacted with that as well.