Mixing Secrets - EZDrummer 2 Metal Machine - Cleaner, punchier sounding drums in minutes 

thanks for watching. glad it was helpful

tmj mano =D...

awesome. thanks for watching! please check out my other videos

No problem. Thanks for watching. It is a great plugin. Always goes on my drum bus

are there any more free links that i can DL for mastering my music like a limiter?

you're welcome. glad it was helpful!

Thanks man. Glad you enjoyed them. I've been stupid busy lately but plan to have some more up really soon

Akkadian Studios still waiting! Lol.

thanks. glad you like it!

* which has to be purchased separately.

+Mark Schriever Thanks a lot. Glad it was useful!

Thanks a lot. Will have more stuff coming real soon

thanks a lot man! glad you liked it. will have some more videos coming soon

you're welcome! thanks for watching

uses less RAM

Hey man thanks for watching. No real reason for the toms. I just set it up like my real kit. And yeah you can stick a limiter on the master bus. I did another video on how I approach my master bus if you want to check that out

Hey. Thanks for watching. For a real drum recording you would probably need to eq each track separately. Ezdrummer is already eqed and compressed anyway

Akkadian Studios I guess I was asking for each drum EQed separately for sitting in the mix better? Not just the sound of the drums as stand alone. Would you EQ the kick or snare or cymbals separately so they would sit in the mix better with guitar, bass, drums and vocals? Or would this setup be good enough to have all the drums sit where u want them to in the mix of a song? Thank you.

Thanks man! glad it was helpful. I turned it down as I prefer the rides from the standard kit, but they are oddly, all the cymbals seem to be much louder than they are in EZX Metal Machine.

Infact I use metal machine and I ve never hear the lower volume. Well tnx for all, and good work Peace

thanks. much appreciated!

+Akkadian Studios And the guitar and bass sounds? :-)

+AdeMDB The guitars are all done with Bias FX and the bass is EZMix at the moment until I've messed about with it properly

Thanks for watching man. Dropping the velocity for the kick notes might help tame it a bit

The post processing preset is different, when put through the standard kit it's processed like the standard one would be as opposed the processing in the metal machine kit.

I will have a video coming soon on how I mix guitars

hey. for me, loading the metal preset on the standard kit and then swapping out the drums for the metal machine ones is the first step to getting a tighter sounding kit. the other plugins are there to beef things up a bit but the main sound difference between the beginning and end of the video is down to changing the kit round in EZDrummer. thanks for watching

Akkadian Studios why reload them instead of using metal machine originally?

The mix within EZDrummer is different. I feel the mix in the metal preset for the standard kit is more punchy when using the metal machine kit parts than it is with the metal machine presets. Give it a try, You will see what i mean

Akkadian Studios Got it, thanks for explaining I get it now.

Johan Vidner all the outputs tend to be pre mixed to make it easier to get a useable sound fast at the expense of malleability. this is why the different presets sound different even with the same drums

thanks man. thanks for the tip. that sucks about headcrusher. may have to stick the dll into Dropbox and link to it

It would be awesome if you would do that ! PS: A Bias FX video soon ? :D

+Kwstas Kourtis I'll put it up asap and change the description link. good call on bias. anything specific? or just general tone stuff?

I think it would be nice to make multiple videos with tones ranging from blues-rock to metal, heck even djent! General mixing tips would be much appreciated too ! Keep it up man ! \m/

Sounds good to me man. I'll be working on a load of new videos soon. I've updated the link in the description for HeadCrusher

Hey man. Thanks for watching. I use this for screen recording sketchman-studio.com/rylstim-screen-recorder/ Used another program for this video that didn't work out so well. but that one has worked great for my other stuff. secondly, I generally just program my drums with keyboard and mouse on the piano roll in Reaper. Sometimes I will use my electronic kit as well (as a midi controller)

Akkadian Studios so much thank you for your kind answer it help me much to know how you make that drum track hahaha

hi Josh. I'm afraid not you will need a DAW. you can still swap the drums around in the standalone version though

Thanks man. In all honesty, I think the stock presets for the EZXs are pretty good. especially at the price point. for the most part they are song ready and you could get a not too shabby mix just using the EZ stuff (EZDrummer and EZMix). That said i do feel that they lack a bit of punch and character and while there is obviously the functionality for routing out for some more mixing, the Superior Drummer line offers a LOT more options in terms of sculpting the sound. EZDrummer is fantastic for a quick but solid drum tone, whereas if you really want to get in to the finer points of drum mixing, Superior Drummer is a good way to go.

Thanks very much.

drum setup is just preference. it mirrorsy own kit. the guitars for this are bias fx. I will do another video on the master bus as there are a few things on there. mainly a bit if compression for glue, some saturation and a master limiter. thanks for watching

i see. looking forward to that video. also, are your guitars bused or straight to master?

I will normally group bus all similar instruments. guitar tracks, bass tracks, vocals etc. guitar bus may have a tiny bit of eq and compression on it

Akkadian Studios damn! I have bias and never can get a tone like this!!

+Daniel Astley-Sumner Definitely mate. We will start your lessons soon

+Akkadian Studios cant wait till we start lessons johno

Thanks man!

Hey man. Sorry for the late reply. If you want to send me a message on my Facebook page linked in the description maybe with a sound sample id be happy to help!

phenix returns isn’t metal machine just a preset from ezdrummer?

It's just ONE program - EZDrummer 2, which use different libraries. "Metal Machine" is a library. There are many, many other libraries out there for EZDrummer 2. You can check them all here, in RU-vid. Just search "EZDrummer 2 libraries" ;) By the way, there are even better libraries for metal music than "Metal Machine". For example "Drums of Destruction", "Death Metal", etc. Ofcourse, it depends on what you like, what's your sound. And it's get even better: for one library there are different mixer presets, which change the sound of one library dramaticly. All in all EZDrummer 2 is great. It's worh it. For fast workflow and good sound. And If you want even more proffessional program for drums, then look for the other Toontrack product - "Superior Drummer 3". It's more complicated, but works way better.

Thanks for watching! I think this was recorded in drop c

can t load your own samples I'm afraid. only samples from EZX add-ons. however, I will be doing a video soon on how to trigger your own samples from ezdrummer with a bit of routing in your DAW

ty mate Akkadian Studios

hey. thanks for watching. yeah it's really easy. just click on the part of the kit you want to change and click the down arrow next to the orange box. it'll show all the kits you have installed. click the one you want and it'll display all the cymbals/drums in that kit

Genius!! Thanks heaps for the tip. Great vids, btw. :)

got a video on mixing EZX Progressive coming up really soon

Ricky Death maximize the window or grab the side of it and stretch it

Im assuming its because he liked the mixer section on the metal one better than the mixer section on Metal Machine. I was guessing that and then sure enough he went right to the mixer section after changing the drums. maybe he already had a template set u on the regular mixer?

yeah pretty much exactly that. all the presets in EZDrummer have a different sound to them and I found that by putting the metal machine drums in to the standard kit with the metal preset it gave me a much more punchy sound.

yeah I sort of do the same thing. Pick a mixer that you like then figure out the drums you want. I generally like to use the "original mix" on most of them so I get the most options etc even though its a bit more complicated to setup at first

aha, now I got it thanks a lot!

It's worth trying it out to see how it sounds

Hi. it's a song from my bands upcoming EP, which should be out around spring 2017

EP out yet bro ?

thanks for watching. it's to cut some muddiness. I generally find 500Hz to be nasty on most drums

Thanks, I will try it!

answer in the next century lol

for this, it's all done on a single stereo track.

alright! thanks

at the beginning and the end bits with my face on? doesn't have a name. it's part of a tune I wrote a while back

Yeah at the beginning! It's such a great theme! Can I listen the full song?

It has changed a little since then, but it will be out with an EP for my band coming soon.

thanks man. it's a song I wrote a while back and just used for background music.

Yeah they do. I have it & it's great.

try addictive drummer metal pack : amazing toontrack does not reach that big sound

no, you'll never have it

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@@chiyo-chanholocaust8143 hahahaha

thanks for watching. glad you liked it. sounds like a plan. I will get one done!

Same thing seemed to happen to me. Went through it a few times but doesn't sound very close.

so many things not shown that can change results drastically. That's the problem with "killer sound ready to go"; there's no such thing. every project asks for different approaches.

i heard it on I hate everything's channel all the time

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xy_NKN75Jhw.html

Thanks!