taikos
So I've been writing quite a bit of music for John Woo's Stranglehold lately, and one of the instruments that has been ending up in most track are taiko drums:
These drums can be huge -- I've seen pictures of taikos that are about 20' wide!
It can be a real challenge to make sampled taikos sound massive and powerful -- even the best taiko samples can often sound thuddy and dull. I'm fortunate to have some custom samples that composer Jamie Christopherson recorded specifically for this game, but occasionally I'm still finding need of some really BIG-sounding hits, and then I'm headed back to the sample libraries. I'm finding with a decent amount of compression, EQ, and reverb, I can get a taiko sound that has great dynamic impact, while still retaining the big, deep resonance of these drums...
These drums can be huge -- I've seen pictures of taikos that are about 20' wide!
It can be a real challenge to make sampled taikos sound massive and powerful -- even the best taiko samples can often sound thuddy and dull. I'm fortunate to have some custom samples that composer Jamie Christopherson recorded specifically for this game, but occasionally I'm still finding need of some really BIG-sounding hits, and then I'm headed back to the sample libraries. I'm finding with a decent amount of compression, EQ, and reverb, I can get a taiko sound that has great dynamic impact, while still retaining the big, deep resonance of these drums...
1 Comments:
How how how?!? That's a particular sample that's always driven me crazy. Every taiko sample I've played with carried none of the impact of what I've heard live (such as the Kodo Drummers of Japan).
Ok, sorry. You just hit on something I've never been able to do satisfactorily.
Unrelated: Aren't we crossing paths in St. Charles on Thurs. night? Lookin' forward to it.
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