Cream drums setup

[Rene Wilhelmy]

Hi,

I’m looking to build a S2 setup close as possible of Baker’s kit, like on Disraeli Gears.
I’m having S1, S2 (Allaire), EZ Jazz & Nashville. Any tip, at least to build my kit would be welcome.
Thanks

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[Brad]

I’ll take shot at this;
Hating to admit (or maybe not) that I may one of the few here that saw GB with Cream, I believe at the time (1968) he was playing Ludwig (grey or silver sparkle I think was the finish) then, using 2 different size kick drums (tuned differently), I think maybe 20″ and a 22″ X 11″. From a wiki page… 12X8 and 13X9 rack toms. 14″ and 16″ floor toms. Riveted ride… that may be a trick to recreate…. You’d have to go through the kit list and pick out pieces that are close. As well you may want to look into the C&V or new Classic EZX. Snare was a 6.4″ X 14″ Leedy snare (he also I believed used a Ludwig sometimes)…. rumour has it the bottom head was tuned half a tone up from the top…. YMMV.

The thing (in my opinion) with getting that “sounds”, is that to me… the drums weren’t all that up front…. Live I would say that was at least partially due to the fact the Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce played so loud…. I assume they did in the studio as well… and apparently not with a lot of overdubs, so bleeding and leakage was probably all over the drum mix. So you may have to consider a certain amount of detail to ambient and OH mics.

Tom Dowd was the engineer so you may want to ‘google’ up some information on him.

OK I officially feel old today…

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[Rene Wilhelmy]

Thank you very much for the input! I have also in mind the C&V and the new Classic EZX, yesterday I was very close to push the Classic’s «Buy download» button! . But I feel that maybe I have already enough to get something having the same character.
I will do some search around your ins…
Cheers.

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[Whitten]

There’s a rivet ride in C&V I think? McCartney tour ride, although I think there were only one or two rivets in there when we sampled it.

[Rene Wilhelmy]

Well, 1st; congrats Chris for the latest «superbe» Classic pack! McCartney tour ride from the C&V, ok, noted.

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