I can’t believe that you’ve been around 2006 and still haven’t reached 1M subs. Hope you will reach it soon this year! Keep on making quality videos constantly!
I'm not a drummer, but it's impossible not to love Cobus. If you haven't watched his tour series part 7, do yourself a favor and check it out. It will help you live a happier life. You're a good human Cobus. Peace
I've been following you since you first played over ten years ( Freestyler ) I was very impressed and happy with your great work , and still follow you every step. Keep the good work, thanks. Happy new year 😊
Happy new year sir Cobus! I’m a huge fan of yours since 2009 Im also a drummer too! Your drumming is my inspiration since highshool till now, so take care always sir more drumcovers to come!
I just bought my first set of mics for my drums and your teaching videos have been very helpful! Looking forward to seeing how they sound when I start trying to mix the recordings. Thanks!
I know this is not "cheating" in your mixing process but somehow I always felt so wrong about doing this for some reason...But now that I see that one of my childhood icons does this as well I'm super confident to keep on manual gating my toms haha! Great video btw!
I am so glad I watched this. Definitely gonna check out the rest of the lesson pack because as a drummer myself with only 1 mic for the covers I've recorded, I can't do this advanced stuff to make everything super clean, but knowing it before I am able to grow my arsenal means that I won't have to go through that muddy phase when I get there! Thanks!
This is like being in a Chinese class 🤦♂️. I’ve been playin drums for 15 years and I still have never grasped this mixing concept smh.. still, great video, been following you since the beginning!!
Awesome video, Cobus! Have you ever thought of using triggers to activate gates? Record the signal from the triggers on individual tracks for each Tom. Then, side chain the gate on the Tom track to its respective trigger. It cuts out a lot of the tedious work by allowing you to simply said the attack hold and release settings of the gate!
Thanks for sharing fellow musician percussionist 🎼🥁🎶🎵 My mother Also was born in Port Elizabeth. Much respect,stay safe,and keep putting out that Great Content!
This technique is golden standard for getting good clean sound without using samples. Another interesting idea is to have triggers on drums side by side with microphone and then use trigger track not for samples, but only for triggering gate on tom microphone track. That way you can get similarly precise results - you can set predelay on gate or just push back trigger track to preserve transients. It's a bit more setup but it automates manual cutting.
This is awesome Cobus! Thank you so much fro sharing this knowledge with us. I will have to try this on some of my next drum covers to see the difference it makes.
Good stuff! I also prefer manual gating over automated. Transients are sacred, I don't trust gates to give me the full punch. Maybe there are some good lookahead gates, but didn't try that out yet
I'm not the only one that does 'manual gating'! I always thought it was sort of considered cheating instead of using an actual gate but like you said, it is ridiculously tedious trying to balance it so it doesn't open everytime I do a loud snare roll or it a crash etc.
