We recorded the drums on the 1st of September 2018. This was done by Mr Marvellous himself, Brent Henshaw of Bertofsky Production Services. They were recorded using ProTools at The Bassment Studio in Belmont Queensland.
Nothing special was done with the recording of the drums. They werent running through some magical, overpriced preamps nor was any addition tweaking done on the day, mostly due to time constraints on the day. The tracks were EQ'd and compressed in post.
We recorded a sub kick as well but this was not used in the final mix. We used a home made trigger using a piezo pickup that Brendan made for Ty so that he could hear his kick at rehearsal through his foldback.
The trigger was invaluable for setting a fast side chain to a gate on Franks bass tracks. Each time the kick triggered, this forced a gate on the track to close for roughly the length of the trigger transient in order to allow the kick to stand out better and stop the bass guitar from taking all the bottom end.
Ty used three snare drums on the Anomaly album; his normal snare drum, an older spongy "high school drummer" sounding snare (which turned out better than we thought) and a small firecracker snare for that poppy/funky *snap* of sound.
Here is a drum play through of the Anomaly track.