Hey! Does any of you like that early 80's/late 70's cardboard/overmuffled/dead drum sound? I'm a huge fan personally. It's all over prog songs from that period but ever since the late 80 up until this very day that sound has been forgotten about and never recreated perfectly in the modern era. At least to my knowledge.
Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYxtkgBRYms


And this one is an extreme example but it illustrates the sound I'm talking about the best out of all 3:


I've seen videos of people trying to reproduce this classic sound but nobody IMO gets the toms right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMgFzvg72XE

Like in this video by Jake Reed and a few others, the toms dont' have that snappy body found in the drum recordings from the 70s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxXRY4jq-sk

People just muffle the toms too much methinks. It's not the way to go. Also, in the recreations, the hihat is often too thin and brittle.