Tom-Mid-1-P.wav

Samples of a Yamaha drumkit middle tom, two-sided.

This more of a recording technique and interface test, and unfortunately the interface is rather mediocre (Focusrite Saffire 40). It sounds like the ADC stage has an overly high gain while the microphone preamp gain is too low, therefore, goodbye fancy detail, unless the "instrument" mode is turned on, but that's available only on the first two inputs. Bottom line is, something like Roland Octa-capture or Mackie Blackbird is a lot better, but unfortunately also more expensive.

Recorded with AKG D-40 (bottom) and Rode NT5-MP microphones (top and rim).

Samples are processed, though really rather subtly/slightly (no compression). Samples are normalised to about -1 dB.

-1 is lowest velocity zone, mutest. -4 is highest velocity zone, strongest/loudest hit.