„U only have to gate‘ur drums if there are problems with it…“ New awareness unlocked. Thank you so much for this subclause. Really! I really do appreciate your content and I will support. Keep on, even though there are toxic customers or less vids in stock. Great work, I am learning so much.
I really like the recent content of your‘s. :) And of what my perspective is: I really want to see in depth videos on recording/mixing/mastering, and sadly there aren’t really as many informative videos out there. For example: The long video interview about oversampling was really cool, I learned so much. Whereas many other RU-vid videos (in general) talk about topics more in a less educational way and barely scratch the surface ever. I understand that they want to appeal to an audience who is just starting out but I get the feeling almost every channel does that. So yeah, Tldr: Cool stuff, get nerdy! I would literally sit here and watch a 4 hour video about different attack curves for snare compression or something. I like learning in depth!
Please please please keep doing these kinds of videos. I think seeing the actual workflow of a professional would improve the music more than any plugin ever will
Yes. These types of workflow videos are EXACTLY what I’m constantly scouring the internet for. I’m a tape/console/hybrid mixer, and it’s such a different process from straight in the box, and finding others that work this way is getting harder and harder.
Great vid. The thing about drums is the recording process. I tried to use multitracks I got online to learn; thinking that was the key to great sounding drums. Took me a while to realise that's (almost) the easy bit. The real work is the drum tuning, the sound of the room, phase, mic placement and the drummer. And working with friends bands who are doing this for love and not money, multitracks can't prepare you for mixing less that brilliantly sounding drums in a weird room. 😂
Really loved how you kept the tightness of the sound, not wanting to overcook things but felt the spirit of what you were working with. That said, there are (like you mentioned) so many interesting avenues to dive into, some parallel distortion, modulation FX and so, would be interesting from a more 'artistic' point of view on how you approach this.
You earned a subscriber purely for the notion about: drummers need to "mix" themselves in the studio"... Im a drummer/studio tech and this is my mantra that I TRY to teach drummers I meet. Its the difference between a good drummer and a GREAT studio drummer.. its that simple. nb: the actual snares.. the snare wires are a GOOD thing in the mix.. its often what will make it natural with some snare buzz
you are inspiring me and you're making good content, I can tell you that. I think it's very responsible in regards of your community to justify certain things but keep in mind we're talking about YOUR channel, and only YOU will decide what to do with it. people will never listen anyway. don't ever forget it
Incredible detail. I would love to get your perspective with electronic drums. Just a standard such as 808 or 909. Nothing fancy, but you using knowledge and fancy equipment. That would be really interesting to me ✌️ ..just samples, not the drum machines 😊
Wow this was fantastic! I appreciated watching your process and hope you make more of these. I could tell you were having fun as it is interesting to see the new direction of the channel. You appear to be happier displaying your craft on RU-vid which in itself can be a soul suck. Oddly I preferred the drums without the tape machine although I could see that working for more of a vintage vibe song. From my observation the drums were so well recorded to begin with and probably hit a tape machine at some point in the process so more is not needed possibly.
Your community is getting older with you, and to say the less : Your videos are very entertaining. Keep this kind of videos up if you wanna see white headed fans !
Great video and content as always - I watch this as a Drum & Bass producer but I make my own drums using Xfer Serum including kick, snare, hi-hats etc. and also addictive drums. It would be interesting how you go about doing dance/electronic style drums and comparing to rock which is more heavily compressed, also how you also go about EQ/compressing these genres, maybe a few video ideas that can be done to achieve this? Is tape always recommended also on a final mix and master or is that optional? I have the UAD and have the option of using the Studer A800 or Ampex ATR-102 but I don't find myself using them recently. Other thoughts on videos could be bass/synth compression and different techniques to keep them from sounding static in a mix?
Back when everyone just recorded drums with a bass drum mic and a single overhead, in order to be a successful recording drummer one HAD to have a good internal kit balance that translated well into that single mic. That unfortunately these days is rare. the really great drummers still sound balanced in the room, and on one mic.
Thanks a lot for this video!!! I really do like both versions ( tape and without tape ), but I guess in the end it all comes down how these drums will sound in a song. If it were to be just a "drum solo" song, I do like the tape version ( more gritty character and different "vibe" )
\i'm guessing the files come time alligned but I was wondering... Once all the racks and plugins get applied do they become out of whack time/phase wise? And even though it is not its intended use would the auto allign plug applied after all the process be worth trying? Or would it sound like poo?
do you use over head over shoulder for the stereo pair? If not why? Do you treat them completely different even with same spacing same focal? In my small room I have to dead everything towels on the hardware and a portable 3 side and ceiling vocal booth on backside of drummer open to brick where the room mics at 12' live Right overhead is a Right over shoulder. Hi Hat full of door keys and the drummer moves tape folded on cymbals on different days pro drummer magic stuff. Control room is drum room. I reintroduce reverb after the fact Do you have a better way in a 12 *15 room with 8' ceiling. Drum on 14 riser 3 sheets plywood under drum sitting 12 hockey pucks I do have a Avaton CK-40 stereo mic and a Sony stereo but usually use Rode pencil Thanks since you asked
Fabulous video thank you so much. Damn that analog EQ sounds amazing. I just bought a Thermionic Culture Phoenix (vari mu) which just arrived (the dictator wasnt jiving with me) - as well as an IGS Audio IQ Mastering EQ. Love your vintage EQ modules - wish there were some EQs I could buy like those that wouldn't absolutely kill the bank. Thinking about DIY 500 serries...10-20 channels of analog EQ is $$$. Any suggestions?
Very interesting and informative. Even though I only use electronic drum sounds (TR-6S drum machine and samples from accoustic kits) this tutorial is quite usefull. I have an old (very cheap and nasty from the 90's) "Mark-V" accoustic drum kit but not the right room to record it. The kit sounds sqeaky too. I Have only one condensor microphone and a 2-channel interface to record. What's your take on recording / mixing drums recorded from a sound module or a VST drum instrument? (any pros and cons / preferences in relation to recording from a real kit). I quite like the idea of exploring an electronic kit in combination with a physical modelling VST to complement programmed drums from a drum computer. Synths are straight-foreward to record but an accoustic kit looks tricky to get right.
white sea i know this is a special request but could you maybe do a video on how to make software instruments realistic? for example how to do dynamics of strings or brass in a realistic way.
I use Acustica Audio Cola 2 71' EQ with the Nebula API 525 FET Comp...then run the Drum bus through my Analog Gear....thats how I mix down my drum buses....
There is a Plugin...if you cant afford or dont have a SSL B dynamics....comp......you can use the Alex B API FET 525 Nebula Plugin.....beats even alot of hardware units on Drums
19:42 I'm left handed AF but the little I know how to play drums, I play "right handed". It's not like there are left handed pianos either. While I'm sure there are people freak enough to play left handed drums or even keys, I've never seen such blasphemy. I mean, I look weird at those people using a PC mouse with a left hand. That being said, while I use scissors with my left hand, I simply cannot work with left handed scissors. They are so weird to hold in hand. All that smoothness and compliant ergonomy does no change the fact that if you're using scissors with correct hand, the blades always goes the wrong way around each others to make it harder to push them together to keep the cut accurate and precise. Let's see how controversial my take on scissors is. ;D
i get where you are coming from as a left handed person. in my case it resulted in a kind of ambidextrous of way of playing guitar right handed, laying drums in parallel (so drums setup traditionally but snare and hihat are played opposite from a right handed drummer, but lower body just regularly) and cutting with a scissor righthandedly. A lefthanded scissor was probably designed by a left handed person 🤣
I like it better without the tape really, but I think it's a good exercise in making those critical decisions as to whether or not something you think "Yeah this will be awesome" is actually adding anything
newbie producer here: do this recording sucks or I'm way too used to PRINSTINE drum samples? having heard you say that's a well recorded drumset makes me believe we are WAY too spoiled with samples
The price of these loops is crazy - not interested. I recommend Drumdrops, they have multitracks too, stylewise a very large palette to choose from....and much more reasonably priced.
I can not mix in this way, it must be with the rest of the music where it goes with. It could sound out of tune, or accents could be made in some total other way, or it could sound muffled, or what ever. Sometimes a reverb never will work on a hi-hatt, or it just will to fill the spectrum. What-ever ! But never on his own as you are doing here.
"Whenever I need to do a live gig, whenever I need to do front of house" which I don't do any more. Yeah I have a favourite reverb I use when I'm doing a pretend gig too 🙄
@@joinslayer so what kind of drums would you like to learn how to mix then? Electronic drums for example are generally far easier to mix because of their digital nature. No need for a tutorial on those
