Make Your Drums Sound MASSIVE With This Trick... 

Thanks Aaron! It feels like there is always something new to learn when it comes to audio!

The fun thing would be to add both if needed.

Thanks Matthew, appreciate the comment and glad you’ve been enjoying the videos!

Stoked to help man!

You can definitely clip the drums bus/run it hot with plugins etc, then just turn it down so the channel isnt going above 0. Going over 0 in your DAW won’t add anything just bad gain staging haha

Yeah definitely

Usually I’ll EQ first if the sound is really bad… needs some corrective EQ, maybe a vocal is too bassy/boomy. Fixing that before hitting compresssor will get better results

Behringer X Touch

Thanks Kyron!

Any bus will work haha

Hey man, I think the snare was the CLA expansion pack for trigger and the kick might have been from Getgood Drums modern and massive. but they are blended with the real kick and snare. You should check out some of my drum mixing videos to get an idea of the plugins I like to use!

Glad I could help!

Haha glad I could help

Thanks Jerry!

Thanks mate! Yeah I do, it lets me control the whole drum sound at one fader 🎚

Thanks! Just some EQ, Compression and a limiter I think!

Which one? The UAD 1176?

Thanks! Yep that’s my drumming!

Thanks!

Back into my drum bus, then I have complete control over the drum mix from one fader

Then I have some mild gluey compression on the drum bus as a whole

Usually I do most things post fader and don’t find it problematic!

@@spinlightstudios Thanks man love the channel, question how can I solo the send to hear the effect in isolation without hearing the dry . I don’t want to mix like this but I can’t hear the effect in solo unless I switch to pre fader, maybe I just don’t know what I’m doin yet, be assured this real instrument recording not edm or midi stuff

I find this most frustrating when I want pan a guitars reverb to the opposite side , I have to go pre fader so it will isolate

@@paulferrarodrums yeah that makes sense, or you could use the “gain” plugin and use the swap left and right button if it’s a stereo send. That will flip which side the signal is on!

@@spinlightstudios interesting thanks for your prompt response I will try that .. just FYI , I’ve just set up my last mix session like yours in the basement recording.. it’s going well at this stage I was using track stacks instead of aux tracks for drum (snares Tom’s ect) groups, interesting that you used sends for drum groups , but you used track stacks for the other instruments , it made my routing tricky , any thoughts as to why?? Cheers mate appreciate the response