Just re-mixed some live drums using these tips, it blew me away... what a difference... and the whole thing without samples... THANK YOU for this amazing video, probably the best drum mixing video ever :)
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Probably the best drum mixing video I've watched! So much great info but it's straight to the point, he only does essential moves and the A/B difference at the end is incredible! Cheers
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Starting with phase allignment a great suggestion. But what about gain staging? At what level do you set your drum tracks before applying eq and compression? Some people like to normalize their drum tracks to -6, -10 or -12 dbFS. I would like to learn your approach to this because you are mostly using analogue emulations to mix drums such as NLS and EV2. Great channel by the way! Keep going.
Gain staging is more so just understanding how the input and output gain at each stage (be that an effect, send, aux, bus, etc) will effect your sound. It doesn't matter what you normal your drums to as long as it will interact well with whatever you are sending it into at that volume. For example some compressors don't have an adjustable threshold so you would compensate for that by going into the compressor with the appropriate gain to have the threshold hit where you want it to and using make up gain on the output to increase or decrease the volume appropriately. Or if a plug in is really noisy you may want to send a hotter signal through so the noisefloor is as low as possible compared to the signal because if you send a quite signal through and boost it after you will get a lot more noise than the other way around.
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Generally I start in solo, to hear exactly the amount of THD I am after, although it is while mixing that I find tune. Ps if you want to find out more about NlS check this video I made walking thru Non Linear Summing th-cam.com/video/y4NTev678_4/w-d-xo.html
Can the In Phase plugin be used during the recording process? Let's say I was sending the output of my DAW to a live stream, if I corrected the phase of my drum tracks and the mics always remain in the same location, theoretically the phase correction shouldn't change, right?
@@kojoXAppau because I can 😂 I love working and experimenting with different microphones. And in my experience a so called “trash mic” a cheap microphone I generally use during recording a hyper compressed version of the kit helps with bringing forward a lot of texture when blended in parallel. Instead of only using parallel compression I can season to taste the sound of my drums bringing forward that mic. But going back to your question, sure you can do without it. It’s all about what if your sonic vision. I hope this clarifies
You always want to mix your drums in context of the song. Sending just the drums to be mixed is pointless. You could have drums that sound fantastic on their own, but get lost when brought back in with the other instruments. Mixing is all about balancing every element so that they work together.
@@BlackWaterCanyon That still doesn't work. You want to mix everything at the same time. Mixing them alongside a stereo track of other mixed tracks is never going to sound as good as doing it all together. My advice to you is to watch more mixing tutorial videos and practice.
I want to start mixing out of the box to get that analog color and nice high roll off. What should I start with. Preamp, Eq, compressor. If I can get some guidance that will be great. Thanks. I understand that there are a whole lot of analog gear and they each have thier purpose and can be genre specific, vocal or percusion specific as well. So anything to start me up would be great. I am going to mainly work on hip hop and pop. Some live here and there (rarely). Thank you.
I dont have much analog experience but almost universally the biggest thing I he e when it comes to analog vs digital is compression. I have heard countless engineers say they have a certain compression unit because they could not find a digital compressor that emulated the tone or ballistics of certain hardware units. EQ would probably be lowest on the list as digital vs analog comes down almost entirely to just the additional distortion from the hardware which could be emulated with any ITB eq and saturator.
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@@musictechnologytipsandtricks All the best brother ! as someone who is trying to conquer my audio engineering problems your content is high level Gold. 😅All the best !! God bless.
Just re-mixed some live drums using these tips, it blew me away... what a difference... and the whole thing without samples... THANK YOU for this amazing video, probably the best drum mixing video ever :)
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Probably the best drum mixing video I've watched! So much great info but it's straight to the point, he only does essential moves and the A/B difference at the end is incredible! Cheers
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SIR, YOU ARE A GENIUS, this helps a lot thanks
Your drums sound exactly like David Bottrills... youre a total drum guy! I love it! Ive always wondered how to get THAT nice of a drum sound.
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Before and after are different worlds. crazy .
nice to have learned something from you thank you
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very well recorded drums - easy to mix.
Certainly a good recording plays a major role, but doesn’t necessarily means that’s easy to mix. ;-)
I wanna know the level of the waveform?? How many Db´s i have to had??
That’s almost irrelevant in this context. With that said normal recordings level I tend to use range between -18dbFS and -16dbFS
This was absolutely fantastic! I am buying the Waves Ultimate bundle. SOLD!
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Starting with phase allignment a great suggestion. But what about gain staging? At what level do you set your drum tracks before applying eq and compression? Some people like to normalize their drum tracks to -6, -10 or -12 dbFS. I would like to learn your approach to this because you are mostly using analogue emulations to mix drums such as NLS and EV2.
Great channel by the way! Keep going.
Gain staging is more so just understanding how the input and output gain at each stage (be that an effect, send, aux, bus, etc) will effect your sound. It doesn't matter what you normal your drums to as long as it will interact well with whatever you are sending it into at that volume. For example some compressors don't have an adjustable threshold so you would compensate for that by going into the compressor with the appropriate gain to have the threshold hit where you want it to and using make up gain on the output to increase or decrease the volume appropriately. Or if a plug in is really noisy you may want to send a hotter signal through so the noisefloor is as low as possible compared to the signal because if you send a quite signal through and boost it after you will get a lot more noise than the other way around.
I wanna know that too
Thank you! This is a big help with cleaning up some old recordings
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Great explanation
amazing video please do this incredible mix for guitar electric lines
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I have a question when do you setup your nls do you set it up in the mix or you set them up in solo?
Generally I start in solo, to hear exactly the amount of THD I am after, although it is while mixing that I find tune.
Ps if you want to find out more about NlS check this video I made walking thru Non Linear Summing th-cam.com/video/y4NTev678_4/w-d-xo.html
Can the In Phase plugin be used during the recording process? Let's say I was sending the output of my DAW to a live stream, if I corrected the phase of my drum tracks and the mics always remain in the same location, theoretically the phase correction shouldn't change, right?
Why do you use a trash and room mix for drum mixing(Can you do without )
@@kojoXAppau because I can 😂 I love working and experimenting with different microphones. And in my experience a so called “trash mic” a cheap microphone I generally use during recording a hyper compressed version of the kit helps with bringing forward a lot of texture when blended in parallel. Instead of only using parallel compression I can season to taste the sound of my drums bringing forward that mic. But going back to your question, sure you can do without it. It’s all about what if your sonic vision. I hope this clarifies
@@musictechnologytipsandtricks yes it does answer my question, thank you
thank you for this. so helpful...
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Can you make the Drum stems available so we can follow along?
Are the stems to the drum beat available so we can follow along with you?
Also do one on vocals using waves
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A hit. Thanks for this. Definitely helps a lot.
hello thanks for the video pls can you go more depth into setting it up
is there a way I can send you a drum track to have it mixed like this? I can't seem to get it sounding right., let me know thanks
You always want to mix your drums in context of the song. Sending just the drums to be mixed is pointless. You could have drums that sound fantastic on their own, but get lost when brought back in with the other instruments. Mixing is all about balancing every element so that they work together.
@@RMHendrickson well I would send in the song track in stereo with no drums and then the drum tracks separately. That’s what I was implying.
@@BlackWaterCanyon That still doesn't work. You want to mix everything at the same time. Mixing them alongside a stereo track of other mixed tracks is never going to sound as good as doing it all together. My advice to you is to watch more mixing tutorial videos and practice.
Thanks for this great teaching , Blessings !!!
I want to start mixing out of the box to get that analog color and nice high roll off. What should I start with. Preamp, Eq, compressor. If I can get some guidance that will be great. Thanks.
I understand that there are a whole lot of analog gear and they each have thier purpose and can be genre specific, vocal or percusion specific as well. So anything to start me up would be great. I am going to mainly work on hip hop and pop. Some live here and there (rarely). Thank you.
I dont have much analog experience but almost universally the biggest thing I he e when it comes to analog vs digital is compression. I have heard countless engineers say they have a certain compression unit because they could not find a digital compressor that emulated the tone or ballistics of certain hardware units. EQ would probably be lowest on the list as digital vs analog comes down almost entirely to just the additional distortion from the hardware which could be emulated with any ITB eq and saturator.
@@incognitiveincognito Appreciate your response. Yeah, I noticed that many would prefer to get a compressor as the first piece of hardware equipment.
You deserve a sub
AWESOME VIDEO AS ALWAYS !!!
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@@musictechnologytipsandtricks I have definitely subscribed ! You have Phenomenal content!! i couldn't figure out why your channel isn't HUGE already ! Well i went through your catalogue of videos and all you need is better THUMBNAILS ! Please update your older thumbnails ESPECIALY no IMAGE repetition and clear topics. Your production is top notch. God bless
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@@musictechnologytipsandtricks All the best brother ! as someone who is trying to conquer my audio engineering problems your content is high level Gold. 😅All the best !! God bless.
Amazzzzzing!
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Check out the brand new series HOW TO MIX POP VOCALS ;-) yesterday I dropped the first video. Every Thursday a brand new content. Ciao
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your voice is too louder than instruments
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