How do you like the drum sound? And which mic is the biggest surprise for you?

Dang! Certainly answers the question can you mic a drum kit with only Ribbon Mics!!

Those AEA R88's are juicccccy

Could we get an IR of that stairwell/room? It’d be cool if we could. You should get an IR of that room. Just take my money now

Man that room mic in the other room is incredible. Ribbon mics all sound so nice.

Sounds fucking great. AEA makes amazing mics.

They sound soo full and juicy! They just blew my ass off. Amazing

So good. Maybe my fav video you've done. And I'm a guitarist!

I liked the round tom sound

All of these mics sound great!

"Luxury Black Metal" hehe love it! And that upstairs room mic was awesome! 😎

Wow that drum verb is incredible sounding, mic at the top of the stairs makes a huge difference

The Hardy M-1 preamp is one of the best ever made.

dayum very love ribbon on everything!

Luxury Black Metal 🤣 NEXT LEVEL 🍻🤘

Always enjoy when you go with the high-end gear and big studio environment.

Sounds beautiful! That room mic is INSANE! Love it!

sounds killer, well done!

We use Ribbons inside the kick all the time. Certainly it needs to handle the SPL, but if you're worried about the air blasts, there are plenty of ways to diffuse it. It's a GREAT option, even for metal.

Excellent sound...Really gorgeous!!! It already smells greatness!!!

more ribbons than Christmas morning

Holy shit that was amazing! Love the idea and thanks for the video. I loved both of the overheads and the biggest surprise was the 88 out in the stairway which added some extra "life" to it in a way I was not ready for. Effing brilliant.

Wow, that mic up the stairs is just INSANE!!!! That is amazing.

Thank you! I love Ribbon mics. In a digital world they really warm things up. That and tubes anywhere you can use them. I love using a pair of ribbons in Blumlein but off axis in front of the kit about 6" higher on the stand than the snare to taste, and about 3-5 feet in front of the kit depending on the room. One capsule faces the outside edge of the snare closer to the high hat and the other capsule faces the floor tom. Looks like a cross but more like an "X" shape. I have tried this with inexpensive Ribbon mics from Shiny Box, and really nice Coles 4038s. Coles sound better. This set up gives me a great overall drum sound of the entire kit. It takes a bit of adjusting to taste but once you find the sweet spot it's awesome. For your kick on this track, you could have put a ribbon mic outside the kick drum on the beater side for capturing the attack instead of the inside one, and the one you put outside the front of the kick, AEA A440 did sound amazing. Well done.

Daking on drums are underrated.

10'55" - the green cap of HMF-db knob fell off :)

This is a very cool content and the drums sound fantastic!

Thanks for this video and the multitracks!

Thanks very much Christian that was bleedin awesome man. What an amazing sound from the ribbons on drums. Maybe even more epic for metal. Big thanks to the PLAP team

nice!!!!

Love it, great experience!

YES! Please more like this! The secod room mike was the burner for the mix! It brings life to the recording!

Dude is wearing a Forgotten Tomb shirt. So, immediate respect.

Love the idea and unsurprisingly, it sounds great in that context.

Awesome room sound. Also I really dug the Overheads.

I'm listening on the worst laptop speakers you can imagine and even there, the drums sound huge! Not kidding when I say that this might be my fav raw drumsound. VERY impressive!

Ahahahah I KNEW IT. I knew someone else besides me would've used the "open door, mic outside" trick to get an amazing room. I started doing it one year ago in the small studio I'm working at because the rec room is way too dry to get lively-sounding drums. Sick stuff. P.s. The owner of this mic collection when her wife asks him where all their money went: 13:09

Great sound an many thanks for the free course!!!!

Man, it sounds dope

AEA R88 for the win as a room mic

I bought an inexpensive pair of active ribbon mics and they are great for room and overhead mics.

I love that drum sound. So warm and full of punch at the same time! Great stuff! :D

Beautiful studio! I have some Hardy pres, love them. Amazing pres, particularly with di bass gtr. Great drummer, great sound man! Nice work. Very cool you did this. This sound could work on some Doom Metal, and any other rock genre. Ribbons don't always mean "vintage", and I don't think they get as much use as they deserve anymore. Great job with mic placement. Nice warm but full sound. Organic. I get tired of condensers all over the place. I appreciate the fact that you let us hear each mic, so we can hear the differences. Clicking like, and am already following. You've been putting out some great content, for metal guys and non metal guys alike. Thanks for the uber cool video! Rock on.

IRs of that corridor room would be sick. So clearly the real sauce.

Awesome sound, very good video and explanation!

Hearing the R88 I was blown away! Had to look up the price because one day I wana have one... Don't look up the price people...

Wow, absolutely loved the sound ❤ ! Similar what I try to achieve at home. Try 😂 . Would love to hear another session like that. More Albini, more figur 8, let it bleed!

Sounds wicked! Also, I love the Toolhouse! My band recorded two EPs there. Great studio!

holy fuck that external room mic !! shit !!! thats BIG !!!

Personally, I am super impressed watching Kristian navigate that SSL console. 🎛🎚✨️ Incredible sounding mics! 🎙 Very cool studio! This is really high quality content! ✨️

Amazing stairwell mic sound.🖤 Brilliant!★

Kick drum sounds amazing ! love the punch but the air and slap/decay is so good

Even as a guitarist, this was one of the best Kohle videos ever 👌

Thank you so much for this video, and for the free course. Top notch!

1:21 what was that wet noodle handshake?

Love this! I've always been a huge fan of AEA mics. For what it's worth, the N8 isn't supposed to be a brighter, more modern sound (that would be the N22); it was actually intended to be a mono version of the R88.

I do this myself from time to time. I'll throw in some pairs like M160's that have more than typical ribbon high frequency detail just to get away from it being too dark.

you mean like Kiss Creatures of the Night album?

As another audio engineer, I want to thank you for doing this incredibly creative experiment. I'm very surprised! I've used ribbon mics before on overheads, hi-hat, room, electric and acoustic guitar, vocals, piano, strings, but NEVER like this! The rejection coming from those mics boggles my mind. Very impressive. I'm definitely going to check out the multi-tracks. Again, thank-you for teaching me, and probably a few others, something new.

Really cool video. The R44 is such nice smokey sounding mic. Used it on guitar cabinets a few times. A little surprised that I didn't see any Royer R121 or Coles 4038 microphones.

Now if only I could afford a bunch of ribbon mics

It will be nice in the future a video with low budget ribbon mics, like the the t.bone RB 500 from Thomann. I have really expensive mics in the studio, but I end up using those a lot of times. Like in OH, vocals and cabs.... Really nice video 👏👏👏

This was a very very cool exercise.Thanks!

Hi, I like this experiment A LOT!!! Really good drum sounds! Bloody well done! The snare microphone was the biggest surprise for me. It really made the snare sound exactly how I want a snare to sound. WOW! Sadly, I don't have 7K lying round so... Other ribbons will have to do. :) Cheers! BR, M

that control room is all business, no chill

Brave! I broke my modded fathead with a bass drum. Just the wind from a heavy hitter via a bass drum tunnel can break a ribbon let alone hitting one with a stick.

Big fan of ribbons. Great drum sound, although it might be more of that hallway room mic than anything else 😂😂 I recently tried Aston Elements on overheads and those are ridiculously cool sounding.

The R88 definitely is a great mic. Even watching the video it sounded like listening to the drumset live in the room. Very natural sound and stereo perception on that one. I didn't really like the bassdrum sound, to be honest - don't know if it was the bassdrum itself or the in-shell mic. The ribbon on the outside sounded great, though, so probably the D6 killer doesn't kill the D6 for me. 😅 (Or the V-Kick, which I personally like best)

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I've been using my ribbon mic in parallel with my condenser for vocals and it works great, really fills out the midrange. PLUS you don't have to worry about phase issues. Very cool!

forgotten tomb short 🔥

Really great video. Sounds fantastic! Question: How would you describe the transient definition and punch of a ribbon mic compared to a, say, dynamic mic ? 🙌

This is insane

That was fun! (even if I would have preferred an LDC here or there)🙂

That room stairwell stereo mic is VERY similar to the technique used by Andy Johns on Led Zeppelin IV. In that case the stereo mics were a pair of Beyerdynamic M 160's and they were heavily compressed.

Hey it sounds amazing just wondering are you just putting a low pass on the outer kick mic? Or did you like really kill everything above 1k 😂

The outside kick mic is fuckin obnoxiously great !! : ) ...and ive heard mixers say they dont use the outside kick mic much when they mix, what the fuck are they talking about !? definitely not the case here !! its a royal family of high end mics ! cheers !

Hey guys, I'm using an Apex 205 ribbon mic outside of the kick. You don't need an expensive mic for this purpose. I put a pop filter on it to be sure and that lets me get it closer. It's like a subkick and I'm not afraid of breaking an expensive mic. 🙃

haha !! LUXURY black metal ! -_- .. we like a bitta luxurious'ness ! : )

The beyerdynamic M160 is a hyper cardioid ribbon I think you would find useful if you do this again. Also an idea for not “cheating” with the dynamic on the kick, maybe miking the batter side would provide enough click and have another on the reso side..??..🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

If you've got plenty of time you can easily record the drums separately, I mean, that's never good for live sessions but it worked well on records. Namastè.

How is it that the room mics aren't 30-40ms delayed from the close mics? My room mics always have phase issues.

I prefer the $99 SM 57 on my snare instead of the $7000 microphone crazy!!

The swimming pool video was great, but don’t you want to replace your swimming cap with a beanie by now? You could also consult with Herr Starr other stylish hat options.

do this again with cheaper ribbons!

I think the ribbons worked great for the overheads, rooms, and snare bottom. The toms were decent, but I think the snare top was lacking. The kick out was decent, but I wasn't a fan of the dynamic kick mic at all.

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Sounds like you’re gonna need to go back and record some samples for yourself if you didn’t already 👀😂

Great video I love ribbon mics, and can't live without them Since you used the Telefunken M82 on the kick, I highly recommend you try the Shure KSM313 ribbon mic. It's a great kick mic (and a great mic for literally everything) and the ribbon will not get damaged at all 👊🏻

i spent all my money , on ribbon mics.... and i still want more....