My Attempt at a Hydrogen Drumkit
Jan.16, 2008 in
hydrogen, hydrogen drum kits
Hey fellow Hydrogen users,
I have constructed a Hydrogen drumkit from recordings of my own Tama Superstar Fusion kit with Zildjian ZXT Titanium Rock cymbals. Below are links to both the hydrogen kit and a short MP3 demo which allows you to hear what the kit sounds like.
Drumkit: Brian_Tama_Superstar
Demo: Brian_Tama_Superstar_DEMO
The above pictures show the Tama Superstar Fusion drumkit and Zildjian ZXT Titanium Rock cymbals used to create the hydrogen kit. Please write up as many comments as you like, good and bad. I would love to hear your ideas.
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May 10th, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Hi Brian,
looking around for alternative hydrogen drumkits I came across your site – once again :)
I checked out your kit. I lke your samples. Your variety of snare styles is intruiging, esp. the drag sound and soft version.
But I hear a few probs with it:
1. Compared to the bass drum the snare seems to be distant. The kick sounds dry to me whereas the snare sound seems to reverb a lot.
2. Could it be the hihat lags a bit? Especially the open hihat is behind the beat.
Is it possible to edit to extract the samples and tweak them?
The best solution to the 2nd problem would be if it would be possible to adjust the instruments in time within hydrogen.
Thanks!
May 11th, 2010 at 8:55 AM
Hey Kurt,
Thanks for the feedback. After I made this kit, I used it for a couple of songs and found it a bit lacking. I recorded the sounds in my old bedroom at my parents house. It was a pretty small room with a lot of crap in it so the bass response of the room was low and the trebles had some reverb. That explains the snare and bass story. Plus I only had an SM57 so this worked okay with the snare but not so great with the bass and floor tom. The hihat lag is obviously because I cut the sound a bit later than the other instruments. This should be fixed by editing the original sound clip. Of course when I thought of fixing all of this I simply gave up because it would be better to write it off and try again in a bigger room with more mics and better equipment.
This said, it wasn’t bad for a first attempt and I think it can be used with a bit of post EQ and compression. If you’re interested I can see if I still have the original sound clips and send them to you to play with?
Later,
Brian