It can sound pretty freaky when done properly, almost like there's a ghost playing the drum. Then play back your gated snare track and experiment with the amp's volume level until the hits coming through the guitar amp make the snares snap. Plug the guitar cable into the amp and flip the re-amp device's ground switch on and off to find which position minimizes hum. Then place a snare drum on top of the amp, over the speaker and with the bottom, snare side facing up. This will enable the tubes to ventilate and prevent the amp from overheating.
REAMP RECORDING STUDIO PRO
The Fender Pro Junior works great for this, but because it's a tube amp I place a small object under the upper portion of the amp to elevate it slightly. Take a small guitar amp and lay it on it's back, with the speaker facing up towards the ceiling. Plug a 1/4" guitar cable into the output of your re-amping device and run the other end of the cable out into your live room or tracking area. These units will reduce your recorded +4 line level signal down to guitar-output level as well as changing the impendence. Radial Engineering makes several devices for this task, such as the X-Amp and ProRMP. The Little Labs PCP Instrument Distro features re-amping plus many routing options and a DI, and their Little Labs Red Eye will also re-amp signals. The Reamp© is the granddaddy of commercially available units, with a patented passive design and simple, effective controls. Studios used to build custom units for this purpose, but these days there are a number of good choices for purchase.
REAMP RECORDING STUDIO PATCH
Patch the output of the gate into a re-amping device. Don't worry - you're only using this signal to generate "stick hits" on the new snare track. This will sound quite unnatural, like a bad drum machine sample. Set the range to maximum attenuation to make the resulting sound very tight, short and crisp. Experiment with the threshold until only the snare hits open the gate. Roll off the bottom-end to minimize false triggers from the kick drum, and roll off the high-end to minimize false triggering from the hi-hat.
The DS201 has a sidechain Key Filter, which enables you to narrow the frequency range of the gate trigger input.
REAMP RECORDING STUDIO SOFTWARE
You can use software plug-ins I prefer hardware so I use the Drawmer DS201. First, mult the live snare track and patch it into a gate. There are a few ways to do this, but I'll illustrate a method that I've been using for years. I decided to re-amp the snare to improve the sound. It sounded like the classic scenario of having a SM57 too close to the snare's drumhead, with the proximity effect adding a lot of bottom-end and a lack of shell resonance or snare snap. The drums weren't very well recorded and the snare track was a particularly bad example. I was recently hired to mix an album that was tracked live in a club. Re-amping guitar tracks is a pretty common technique these days, but did you know you can also re-amplify drums? This process can solve problems and expand your sonic palette during mixing.
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