In the last article of how to make your programmed drums sound more exciting and human, we talked about using delay and parallel compression. In this article, however, we will cover the most essential thing to make your programmed drums more exciting and human.
Here's what you'll learn from it:
- 9 Steps to a Greater Drum Mix
- How Your Polarity Switch Can Mean the Difference Between "Thin and Weak" or "Thick and Tight"
- How to Simplify Your Drum Sound to Make Your Mixing More Efficient
- How to Use Bus Processing and Parallel Compression to Glue Your Drum Sound Together
- How to Use Sample Replacement to Save a Shitty Drum Sound From Itself
- How to Use the Secret Weapon of the Transient Designer to Shape Your Drum Sounds Into What You Hear in Your Head
- How to Blend Multiple Reverbs Together in Your Drum MIx, Making the Drums Sound Larger than Life
- How to Fit the Kick Drum and Bass Guitar Together in the Low End
- How to Use the Volume Faders to Get the Correct Balance From Your Drums (WHAT A NOVEL IDEA?!?!)
- How to Take Full Advantage of the Phase Relationship Between Your Tracks to Make Every Track Sound Tighter
- 4 Different Ways of Grouping Your Drums for Easy Mixing
- What Processing to Use When You Don't Have Drum Replacement or Transient Designers at Your Disposal
- Where to EQ Drums to Get Rid of Boxiness, Muddiness, and Harshness
- Why Your EQ is Kind of Like the Jedi's Trusty Lightsaber
- Your 6 Step Process for Using Drum Compression for Tighter Drums
- A Behind the Scenes Look at How the Ratio of Your Compressor Affects Your Drum Sound
- When to Choose FET, OPTO or VCA Compression Styles
- How to Use Multi-Band Compression for a Tighter, Yet MORE Dynamic Drum Sound
- How to Use Gates to Get a Cleaner Drum Sound
- What to Avoid When Gating the Kick and Snare
- Why You Should Use Analog Summing and Saturation to Add More Warmth and Depth to Your Drums
- Why Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" is the Reason I Use This One Plug-in on ALL My Mixes
- How to Use Parallel Compression to Add Power to Your Drums
- Specific EQ and Compression Guides for Kick, Snare, Toms and Overheads
- How to Side-Chain the Bass to Get the Kick to Cut Through
- How to Get a Thunderous Tom Sound in Three Steps
- The Difference Between a Drastic and Subtle Overhead EQ (And When to Choose Which)
- Adding Space to Your Drum Mix Without Making Your Drums Sound Distant
- How to Use Two Separate Reverbs on the Snare to Get it to Stand Out
- How to Select the Right Reverb Mode For Your Song
- How to Use Gated Reverbs Without Sounding Like You're an 80's Cover Band
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