Good morning and happy Monday!
This week I'm excited to share some news about my good friend Matt Boudreau from Working Class Audio and you're the first to hear about it!
In case you didn't know, Matt is a veteran of the industry and has interviewed most of the industry's heaviest hitters, like Andrew Scheps, Michael Brauer, Eric Valentine, Steve Albini, and more.
He even let me on the podcast once!
He's been working in the industry for 35 years, first as a drummer and then as a mixing and mastering engineer and he knows how much a good drum sound can transform a mix from puny to POWERFUL.
And if your drums don't sound up to snuff, your songs will always sound like demos instead of hard-hitting records.
Your songs will fall flat if the foundation isn't powerful and one of the easiest, yet overlooked ways to create that solid foundation in your mix - especially if you're not working with an already stellar drum sound - is by using drum samples.
Now, you may think that drum samples are somehow "cheating" but in reality, it's just another essential tool you want in your drum mixing toolkit.
And this week, to celebrate Matt's new course, Mixing With Drum Samples, I'm giving anyone who joins his course a free copy of my Drum Mix Toolkit eBook.
All you have to do is enroll in his course here and then send us an email with your receipt to support@audio-issues.com and you'll get your free eBook.
Here's what you learn in the Drum Mix Toolkit eBook:
- 9 Simple Steps to a Great 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
- How to Get Rid of Ringing Drum Sounds
- How to Get the Kick and Bass Guitar to Move Together in the Mix
- How to Use Sample Replacement Without Sacrificing the Human Feel
If you want to learn more about any of the topics I touched upon above, enroll in Mixing With Drum Samples here and get your free ebook.
Enjoy!
Björgvin
P.S.
This free eBook offer and the $50 discount to his new course ends on Friday so make sure you enroll before then.