GetGood Drums: Misha Mansoor Parallel Compression Tutorial

[@TroyDawdy]

Lol, Matt grooving along to his own part xD "That grooves pretty good, yeah" 2:45

[@FaridMusic]

lololol

[@Medddler]

This looks like a hostage video and matt's the guy with the gun

[@christopherharv]

Parallel comp is a MUST if you're using samples only. It's your best shot at recreating the sound of a lively performance.

[@mitchellbarlowmusic]

Hey Misha, would you ever do a channel explaining how you get guitars so meat-y and chunky in the mix?

[@Quaker763]

I'd love to see this too

[@wibby2143]

He has a guitar recording tips vid on his channel "Top Secret Audio." It's from 2 years ago.

[@Quaker763]

***** Tbh the tone is the easiest part, it's how he fits/EQs everything in the mix that is the hardest part that I'd love to see haha.

[@BigFatCock0]

Grab Nolly and Matt's creative live lesson.

[@dreaminginnoother]

gotta feed them grains and antibiotics. GMO's or some shit.

[@morrisheilman4919]

I was watching this while working on my mix and said to myself "Fuck, I've been doing this for almost a year now why doesn't it sound nearly as good?" and then out of curiosity I listened to some old Bulb demos; I then realized that everyone starts somewhere and all of my discouragement faded. That said, I will still strive to get as good of a sound as that one day.

[@shawnsorenson]

Meanwhile I listened to the old Bulb demos and realized that I'm still fifty levels below Misha in sound quality.

[@felipe5150]

sounds insane! Good job guys

[@MrJasiu42]

yo mish! love this! im using this now

[@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE]

Brilliant video, thanks for sharing :)

[@AsmusThomsen]

Pre and post fader is actually the reverse of what you're saying - but nice tutorial.

[@bilnovais]

Misha: Press play to demonstrate Matt: Yeah let's nod our heads

[@Playmusician]

7:38 > Its actually Pre-Fader not Post Fader. Great tutorial by the way !~ GGD Videos are excellent.

[@albertoluciani8705]

will you make a video on how you process these samples?

[@maddyriaz]

Thanks misha for demistifying this for us.. Can you possibly demistify the inserts section of different elements.. like eqs, reverbs and other fx you are using..

[@TheLithGH]

Thanks for posting! But all of a sudden, my GGD kick is loud, and all other kit pieces are quiet. Mixers all at same level, velocity all at same levels... not sure how to fix. Help!! lol

[@primarypenguin]

Misha you probably already know this but if you route all source tracks to "no bus" and leave the sends, you can hear just the send, the parallel compression in this case. Kind of a pain in the ass but possible. And I think you can also do some witchcraft with control room.

[@andyTHPS]

Do you ever compress the drums individually before sending them to your drum compression bus you have going here?

[@Peristox]

It looks like he has compression before he's sending it to the PAR/VERB Busses. Although I'm not sure if it's pre or post fader. IT also seems like he d be doing light compression on the individuals with a slower attack maybe..?

[@johnd8707]

Bass tutorials plssss

[@mattiejonesmusic117]

what sort of project is this? I noticed everything is a stereo audio file so is this set for mastering or something?

[@xPaRkxWaYxDRiVex]

How would you set the levels by ear? Would you crank the compression buss then set the send faders first or vice versa? Seems like a revolving door

[@sword-and-shield]

Sometimes, feeding the kick and snare to separate Para Comp busses gives better results because the comp only has one signal effecting it, allowing a more focused punch...try it. Neither way is an always best way.

[@FarshadHesami]

whats on your reverb channel track? please explain it. tnx Misha

[@MishaMansoor]

I have EWQL Spaces which is a very high quality convolution reverb and Verbiage which is a very trashy digital verb and then some eq!

[@FarshadHesami]

thanks Misha (y)

[@OverlandOfNorway]

Do you have any favourite patches in the EWQL plugin for drum reverbs? Just got this and don't know where to start, there's so many awesome spaces in it.

[@9late4]

Is there a way to do this parallel compression thing using Ezdrummer? Cannot find out how...

[@MikaTarkela]

What is the difference between a track and a bus?

[@user-rf7br8yb3l]

Mika Tarkela think of busses as a group output. Generally used to sum multiple things to one fader (i.e.: multitracked drums all sent to one drum buss) There are some differences between live and studio environments though, live board busses may not have any gain controls besides the individual faders of the tracks sent, whereas an AUX track in your DAW has pre/post fader gain controls. AUX sends are primarily effect sends, like for reverb. Hope that helps.

[@Hifcrea]

im very conflicted. If im using addictive drums and its compresses and EQs all the drums within it already. Is something i should be messing with

[@The1HornyGoat]

Hey there! noticed that you have the cubase drum map running with GGD. how did you achieve that?

[@The1HornyGoat]

Figured it out!

[@maddyriaz]

How?

[@Andyw1228]

Isn't this the normal old bread and butter compression ? To me it seems the normal and only way to compress drums- build a subchannel and then effects. OK, you could manually compress each part of the drums, but I consider all drum tracks as one Instrument + overheads and ambience. But thx for all your work and effort. You are truly important to the metal community.

[@manny75586]

Andyw1228 he sorta skipped the part about their being another compressor on the whole kit in addition to the one dedicated to the kick and snare. Chris Selim has a great video about how to do this in Cubase on his channel as well.

[@jessejames5081]

Misha, I need to know if it is possible to add drum pieces to the kits in getgood Drums modern a massive. I purchase the product and have been messing with it for days but I cannot figure out how to make the drum kit bigger. I want more than just three Tom, I want to kick drums, and who wants only symbols and a splash? Is it possible to add pieces to the kids?

[@Aaron_LH]

Are the samples with GGD pre processed or raw? Both perhaps?

[@BigFatCock0]

I believe they're essentially raw.

[@AlanThomas1]

From the FAQ page : "...there’s some very light EQ on most of the shells and additional processing on the kicks. However, we’ve kept the processing to a minimum to give you as many options as possible."

[@efyliphmusic]

Ca anyone advise a waves plug-in similar to that soft tube one he is using for the parallel compression ?

[@SuperBario]

Filipe Almeida, try the CLA 1176. its close in character to the softube. I have both and prefer the softube for parallel compression

[@matthewfischetti9138]

how do you get the separate tracks for each drum when using only 1 instrument track?

[@jwcorcoran9838]

Look at misha's video on how to route ggd in cubase, they also have tutorials for routing in pro tools and logic too

[@matthewfischetti9138]

thanks dude! i figured it out a while back. but thanks!

[@albertoluciani8705]

i see you use "virtual..." plugin on almost every track. wich plugin is it?

[@MishaMansoor]

Slate Digital Virtual Mix Rack, it's awesome!!

[@alex_from_space]

Мишка Мансурин

[@biliksuaratv]

Matt,, You allright that behind?

[@CarlGonzalesGuitar]

What Song is this?

[@nosferatu1263]

Rainbow Gravity

[@NielsJulian]

guitar sound is goalz

[@NeonMacabre]

Does anyone know if the pack comes with raw samples, like WAV files in a folder? I prefer to use Hydrogen and I don't have Kontakt.

[@PurpleKangaroo4]

I believe at the moment you can only use Kontakt, and one other plugin similar to kontakt that I forget the name of. you could probably find out on the get good website.

[@LevitatorMusic]

DAMMIT!!! Whhyyyy must I find videos about compression unbearably boring?!?! I've attempted to watch them for years....I guess I'll never learn. :'(

[@XiyuYang]

LevitatorMusic same here, compression is that only effect I don’t know when and how to use

[@NDEEZMiata]

Look up recordingrevolution.com He's got some great tutorials on compression. Compressors are probably the most important part of a mix besides EQs

[@LarryDaGamerGuy]

Compression is the most boring effect, duh. Its boring, but its super effective.

[@AsmusThomsen]

Pre and post fader is actually the reverse of what you're saying - but nice tutorial.