Does anyone know how they make those drums sound so electronic? Or is the drummer using some way to trigger electronic drums?
Sounds like FM filter modulation with resonance.
About 8 minutes in, the synth guy is clearly playing a Maschine.
You can easily get “very electronic” drum sounds from all of the Elektron boxes.
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Yeah, I’ve seen the Maschine there. But what’s the drummer doing then?
If he’s really playing, I can’t quite hear his drums. That’s why I considered he could be triggering the electronic drums, and not playing along with them.
It could be that the drummer is just a “backup dancer” and everything is coming from the Maschine. There may be electronic triggers in the drum set that allow the band to switch from mic’d acoustic drums to electronic triggers. Maybe the drummer or other band members are triggering phrases with foot controllers or other difficult to identify controllers.
Bands have been doing press-play sets that are heavily or entirely sequenced since at least the 1990s, so there is probably a near infinite variety of ways to accomplish this.
Are you more interested in making sound, triggering sound, or learning how to design live sets? I think most of us here are extremely low budget solo live performers, when we perform at all.
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I was just trying to discover what they’re doing.
I’ve never seen a drummer as a “backup dancer” to electronic drums, but I don’t doubt it’s what he’s doing. If he’s just triggering, I thought it could be easier to use pads.
I’ve seen some cool performances from drummers triggering eurorack with mics and input modules, but they were controlling melodic instruments.
I’m not a drummer so I don’t have much more to add to this discussion. Hopefully others will chime in.
You may want to check into very early Kraftwerk - they had some drum controllers that look very DIY by today’s standards. Also some prog/math rockers were into electronic drum triggers. Rush and Dream Theater are probably good starting points for epic drum kits with electronic triggers.
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There certainly can be acoustic drum triggers.
There is plenty of polish both with this performance and the video.
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I played with a drummer who was really big on triggering his Korg Electribe from his acoustic drum kit. From what I recall he had one trigger on his kick and another on the snare or one of the toms - I forgot which. I think he used ddrum triggers, but I forgot - there have been other brands out there.
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That’s what I thought they used.
Could it just be signal processing?
i helped record a screamo metal band and they used triggers on the acoustic kit to layer up a clavia dDrum. they said all those bands do it to make the drums sound fatter and punchier (ymmv) but they liked the kick drum in particular.
i think in the clip to op posted the drummer is playing and maybe has some triggers or the drums could just be processed heavily… could have triggers and like a roland Vdrum tucked away somewhere or alesis drum brain thing… what’s that thing called? d5 or something?
this video looks really produced though so could’ve multitracked the performance then edited it after or overdubbed. bands do that shit all the time. sometimes bands will release a live album that’s been totally overdubbed to fix mistakes… the crowd noise and on stage banter sell it.
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