And from there they’ll go to hardware 1176s, Distressors, or Fatsos. I use various types of mics around the drum room, all of which go through the 4-710d, especially overheads and rooms, while the kick may go through my UA Solo 610. I mainly want something inspiring in the drum tone, and if I feel there’s a frequency or a quality that I’m missing, I’ll find a way to add it. I’ll typically lean toward the tube setting on the 4-710d: I’m not that concerned with the idea of “speed” with mic pres, this idea of how fast they pick up the transients. I use various ribbon mics for the overheads, including the Cascade Fat Head and VIN-Jet mics, but I’ll usually mix all those down to a stereo pair, so it becomes more like a composite of all the mics.Īlthough if there’s a very important element in the song, like a tom, I may mic that individually. JL: If I’m using the 4-710d for drums, I might try to use as few mics as possible: AKG 414s for the rooms, Shure Beta 52-A for the kick Sennheiser 421 for toms and the snare top is a Shure SM57 or sometimes an SM7. What’s a particularly good way of sending drum mics to a single 4‑710d? The 4-710d sounds great, there are no hidden menus, there are jacks right on the front, and so I want to play it, do you know what I mean?Īnton Fig: For me it means that when I do drum tracks remotely for people, in my own home studio, with the 4-710d I have the option of sending them either a punchy and clean, multi-miked sound that they can then color as they like, or I can try something a bit edgier that already has loads of character built into it. Jacknife Lee: Useability and color is what I’m always looking for.

There are so many combinations of tube and solid-state flavors you can create. But that’s just the beginning: these four preamps are really more like at least eight, or more if you consider all the blending possibilities. In a general sense, what makes the Universal Audio 4-710d a go-to for recording drums?Ĭhris Dugan: Well, if you’re in the business of going aggressive with sounds on drums, the 4-710d preamps are entirely capable of going in that direction, in a creative and tasteful way. Starlight Echo Station Starlight Echo StationĪstra Modulation Machine Astra Modulation MachineĤ-710d Four-Channel Tone-Blending Mic Preamp w/ Dynamics 4-710d Four-Channel Tone-Blending Mic Preamp w/ DynamicsĪbout Find a Dealer Downloads Blog Support Log In

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