Dave Fridmann drum sound

benjones212

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Hey, I'm trying to get a kind of Dave Fridmann/Flaming Lips drum sound - Over distorted and over-compressed but still somehow nice sounding.

An example is the drums in 'Be Above It' by Tame Impala, or the drums on Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips

Does anyone have any tips?
 
Here is a SOS interview on Fridmann. He actually does mention the Race For The Prize drums: mainly that he's usually micing Drozd with just two mics and that the distortion comes from just overdriving the console..
 
I'd agree with Krushing - room mics, overdriving the console, lots of compression...could be that it was recorded on tape.
 
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