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Bass drum sound effect

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Mic the batter side of the bass drum with the mic pointed directly at where the beater hits, and also put a mic about 6 inches outside of the resonant heads hole, if there is no hole on the resonant side pull the entire front head off. Or you can tune the drum the same way if the drummer is anal about his setup and not wanting tape on it. And since you have the head tuned really low you already have good attack, and low frequency for the thump. If this is not enough click, then also tape 2 more quarters on the batter head where the beaters with the other quarters hit. Now if you can get the drummer to do this you will be amazed at what it can do for a crap sounding bass drum, tape quarters to his kick drum mallets, so when he kicks the side with the quarter taped will hit the head. He should be using a rubber or plastic mallet, not the felt kind. Check out the dudes kick beater, if it looks like a marshmallow it is not going to as easily yield that type of sound. Take any muffling out of the bass drum, tune the batter side as low as you can until it is almost wrinkled(then tune it up just a TINY bit.) Also tune down the resonant head as well.

Most bands that have that in metal are triggering, with that being said since you don't have a trigger module(i'm assuming) you can do a few things to get that sound. There are some things you should know about that clicky metal sound.