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Re: TESTING

PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:15 pm
by The Tasmanian
First test

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:21 pm
by Ben M
Drummers shark cage. Love it.
Every studio should have one. :D

Is the crane hanging around for long Chris?

Re: Under.....

PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:22 pm
by The Tasmanian
Under we go.......

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:24 pm
by The Tasmanian
Crane is being used a few times.
This was the first test in a pool - fresh water.
Monday we rig it up fully for saltwater test on the wharf - iron out any problems on Tuesday
Performance on Wed evening
Should be a hoot!!

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:38 pm
by chribble
Wow are you making a video of this? Couple of gopros? :D

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:56 pm
by The Tasmanian
4 x HD gopros

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:36 am
by Trent Griggs
Congrats Chris you mad bastard! You pulled it off. Sounded so very cool, and unlike anything. Sounded better than on Monday. Vibe was killer as Tina was being lowered in. Would have liked to have a drink with you after but the place was crawling with MoFo's. Thanks for letting me be around it. Rob, you're Hydraphone was the business in our murky Derwent.

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:22 pm
by The Tasmanian
Thanks Mr T
It was a great success - everyone was blown away with how amazing the kit sounded underwater.
It sounded like a electro industrial / fluid watery pounding soundscape, almost like it was in a massive nightclub - so much amazingly cool huge bottom end stuff was swirling in and out. Water swilrling in between drum hits, some stuff sounded like it was backwards. Cymbals sounded like big pieces of metal.
A totally rewarding experience!
Rob Squires military Hydrophone was a god send! -
Thank you Rob!!!!
It was a total pleasure massaging and hearing something that no ears have ever heard before.
Mission accomplished.

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:34 pm
by Trent Griggs
The Tasmanian wrote: Water swilrling in between drum hits, some stuff sounded like it was backwards.


That's what sounded really interesting about it I reckon.

Ride cymbal sounded like a 30ft metal tank being struck!

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 2:49 pm
by The Tasmanian

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 3:05 pm
by Wiz
well, congrats....


When do we get to hear it?

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 3:12 pm
by The Tasmanian
Wiz - I'll have a chat with the powers that be, and see if I can post a small segment up here.

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:39 pm
by Trent Griggs
There's a video of the whole thing here


http://www.themercury.com.au/article/20 ... -news.html

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:54 pm
by The Tasmanian
yeah - but its another pathetic Murdoch rag - don't bother

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:04 pm
by Trent Griggs
The Tasmanian wrote:yeah - but its another pathetic Murdoch rag - don't bother

(here's one you prepared earlier)

continue to call out all extreme liars peddling many untruths (Abbott/Murdoch/Jones)



You're keeping your New Years Resolutions!

Re: This is what it sounds like..

PostPosted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:09 pm
by The Tasmanian
OK - I have a MP3 small grab of the gig posted up on Proharmonic website (thanks Rob).
http://www.proharmonic.com/Underwater.htm

Here is a pic of the kit - note the Hydrophone hanging on the left.
Wires going through the drumshells plus (siliconed on) bug mic's on all top drumskins, under ride and hat mics with condoms.
....hear how crazy trashy a kit sounds out of the water - as to be expected on a $400 kit that had already been under twice - and also because the drums were sealed 5 hours prior, the condensation pressure from inside the wet shells made the skins push out over the afternoon prior to the gig - like a long way out, so the floortom was higher pitched than the rack tom by the time the gig started! I could not detune it as I would have broken the silicon seal between the bearing edges and the skins.
The cymbal and ride mic's died over the progression of dunkings - so they were half dead on the day - and completely died during the gig - I think the diaphragms on these particular mics were not up to the pressure
...all this crazy unexpected stuff happened as one would expect.

My lesson - its always all about mic placement - even underwater
Enjoy
Underwater kit5.jpg

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:40 pm
by rightintheface
Chris, that was awesome! Fantastic work, I hope you and whole team is proud as punch

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:10 pm
by seancook
Taking some inspiration from this yesterday seein as I didn't need big rooms for the drums I decided to use some 57s in condoms as stereo room mics. It didn't sounds as cool as Chris' submerged kit but it worked well for the song an more or less sounded like drums the spring verb in a space echo but a bit smoother.

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:51 pm
by The Tasmanian
That's hilarious!!
You've taken it to the next level!

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:49 pm
by rob
well, the hydraphone is available for hire for those wanting to submerge their recordings

Re: Recording a drumkit under water..

PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2013 8:18 pm
by arolland94
Just had a read other this post, and this is incredible! I'm blown away that it was able to be pulled off, and the sound was quite astonishing! Especially that ride, might have to relocate some of my recordings to the water.