{"id":24397,"date":"2010-04-19T18:05:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T02:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9n2.ac0.myftpupload.com\/presetblog\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2010-04-19T18:05:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T02:05:29","slug":"ratting-up-that-drum-bus-drum-distortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24397","title":{"rendered":"Ratting up that drum bus. (Drum distortion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/mediaarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC_0046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC_0046\" src=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/mediaarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/DSC_0046-1024x676.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fan of over the top drum sounds. Sometimes that means full on distortion. Enter the RAT Deucetone (AKA &#8220;douchetone&#8221;) It&#8217;s a great duel input distortion stompbox just begging to be used as a bus insert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rat-bus.mp3\">rat-bus<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wavesurfer-block wavesurfer-audio\"><div class=\"wavesurfer-player\" data-wave-color=\"#000000\" data-cursor-color=\"#dddddd\" data-progress-color=\"#ededed\" data-height=\"127\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rat-bus.mp3\"><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-progress\"><progress class=\"wavesurfer-loading\" value=\"0\" max=\"100\"><\/progress><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-buttons_set\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"wavesurfer-play\"><span>Play<\/span><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"wavesurfer-stop\"><span>Stop<\/span><\/button><div class=\"wavesurfer-time\"><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-duration\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rat-OH.mp3\">rat-OH<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wavesurfer-block wavesurfer-audio\"><div class=\"wavesurfer-player\" data-wave-color=\"#000000\" data-cursor-color=\"#dddddd\" data-progress-color=\"#ededed\" data-height=\"127\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/rat-OH.mp3\"><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-progress\"><progress class=\"wavesurfer-loading\" value=\"0\" max=\"100\"><\/progress><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-buttons_set\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"wavesurfer-play\"><span>Play<\/span><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"wavesurfer-stop\"><span>Stop<\/span><\/button><div class=\"wavesurfer-time\"><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-duration\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[38,42,98],"class_list":["post-24397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-ticks-tips-tricks","tag-distortion","tag-drum","tag-rat","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24578,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24578","url_meta":{"origin":24397,"position":0},"title":"Elektron Analog Heat = Properly smashed to hell drum sounds!","author":"Eric","date":"February 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally got a day to test\/play with it & the whole drum chain #GearAbuse https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ib3a9z_psoA","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Noize&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Noize","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/elektron-analog-heat-properly-sm.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/elektron-analog-heat-properly-sm.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/elektron-analog-heat-properly-sm.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/elektron-analog-heat-properly-sm.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/elektron-analog-heat-properly-sm.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24889,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24889","url_meta":{"origin":24397,"position":1},"title":"Black out &#8211; Drums meet dirt stomps","author":"Eric","date":"November 24, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I'm \"Sound Hunting\" for some drum recording in the works. 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For those curious enough to deal with the sonic assault, I go through them each 1 by 1, but of course go All-In\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Everything Else&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-out-drums-meet-dirt-stomps.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-out-drums-meet-dirt-stomps.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-out-drums-meet-dirt-stomps.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-out-drums-meet-dirt-stomps.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/black-out-drums-meet-dirt-stomps.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24668,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24668","url_meta":{"origin":24397,"position":2},"title":"Quarantine Five.","author":"Eric","date":"August 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Quarantine NO.5 Somber improv, experimenting with Tape delay, Trees, & Drums+Vocoder. Sonically it fits my mindset as of late. https:\/\/youtu.be\/2xww14RQ2GM : : : : ;; : : : #drums #trees #synths #delay #qdrums #arp #eventide #prophetX #sequential #drumlife #recording #microphones #experimentalsound #drummers #cymbals #creatingmusic #experimentalmusic #Distortion #sounddesign #Darkmusic #Heavymusic #electronicmusicproduction\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=375"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/quarantine-five.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/quarantine-five.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/quarantine-five.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/quarantine-five.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/quarantine-five.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24430,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24430","url_meta":{"origin":24397,"position":3},"title":"Duende Ver 2.5.9 DSP vs Ver 3.5.2 &quot;Hybrid&quot; Signal analysis","author":"Eric","date":"September 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Duende Ver 2.5.9 DSP vs Ver 3.5.2 \"Hybrid\" Signal analysis Bus Comp Sampling mode: 24-bit, 48 kHz Summary Frequency response +0.20, -0.59 +0.24, -1.27 Noise level, dB (A): -135.4 -138.1 Dynamic range, dB (A): 124.6 127.2 THD, %: 0.069 0.179 IMD + Noise, %: 2.277 2.197 Stereo crosstalk, dB: -138.9\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Analysis&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Analysis","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"Spectrum graph","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/mediaarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Buscomp\/fr.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24656,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24656","url_meta":{"origin":24397,"position":4},"title":"SEM &#8216;n Dist","author":"Eric","date":"February 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Some evening distorted synth sound design\/self-prescribed Sonic therapy. 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