Drum Kits
TR909 Tube Drum Kit
We run all of our drum machines through DIs before we hit our consoles’ mic pres, to minimize noise (via the ground lift) and balance the audio to a mic level signal.
For our traditional sample packs, we opt for clean, solid state DIs, because they have less noise, and preserve transients. But tube DIs can be a wonderful and fun way to achieve some RMS and harmonics on the way in.
What most people don’t realize is – the volume of your *source*, not the volume on the DI, is what affects the amount of saturation.
To demonstrate this, we recorded the 909 (analog, so hits the tubes nicely) cleanly, and at 3 different levels through the (awesome) REDDI DI.
