Mixing Electronic Drums and How to Get a Better Sound

Mixing Electronic Drums can always be a challenge in a live setting. You can be either faced with a mono or stereo group from the drum head unit or have a set of multi-channel outputs from the drum unit. Either way you are at the liberty of the quality of drum sounds that unit is producing. I'll teach you a few ways to make the most out of your Electronic Drums in this video.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Mixing Electronic Drums
00:58 Getting the Best Sound out of Electronic Drums
02:30 Listening to the Original Sound from the Electronic Drums
03:14 Snare - Electronic Drums
06:31 Dynamic EQ for Deeper Snare
08:11 Kick Drum - Electronic Drums
11:39 Toms - Electronic Drums
14:02 Overheads & Cymbals - Electronic Drums
16:52 Listening to Before & After
18:27 Conclusion

[@KENNETHCOOPER55]

That wing looks like a nice board, but im using an X32 full board, all my band use P16-M's for iem & my 2 guitar players & bass player use helix floors, so no amps or floor monitors, the only thing that is heard is my drum set, but im in the process of getting a Roland TD-KV2 which is a high end electric drum set, this video will help in when i finally get it, thanks for the vid & keep them coming 😊

[@soundengineer4907]

Thanks drew, always hitting the point for us.thanks again😉

[@coolceeofficialmusic7608]

Hi Drew please can you do a video about using gain staging with pink noise and audio coming from a daw in sources and busses on the Behringer Wing.

[@alexanderocloo8055]

Good work. Kindly confirm if you are ever goin to move to Allen&Heath SQ7 etc

[@andredemattia3604]

Very good video. Can you do a video using a mono out for drums? If you can do it on x32 would be a great example for me.

[@mjtejero]

What we do with our electric drums is use a software plugin(SSD 5) instead of going through the drum unit. but still at the end of the day it will still be 2 output going in to the mixer.

[@Sfdi123]

so does that mean you can't manually adjust each part of the drum from the mixer?

[@thorisomalebo4604]

Please do tutorials on the digico s31 or s21 if possible

[@tomassoo1979]

what about compressor detector Peak and RMS switch for drum sound?

[@llornit]

would a snare verb and a parallel compressor on the shells been useful in this situation?

[@kaleboverby426]

Thanks Drew, I use a VAD-507 with Superior Drummer, I route them through 6 audio channels though my PlayAudio1U. So I have Kick, Snare, Hi-Hats, Rack Tom, Floor Tom, and Overheads.

[@jackshouse3873]

And is the gains supposed to effect iem

[@nelsonbiak]

How do you split the e drum into individual output channels in your mixer?

[@DH-ik1vf]

Setting at drum panel is off

[@julio80c]

Up

[@Jefta1972]

Toms are out of phase

[@ulla4481]

🤦 'promosm'

[@allenpendleton8767]

The best way to get electronic drums to sound better is to NOT use them. You can get good results with enough money but we all know that a church is gonna get the cheapest crap they can find.

[@mrovi789]

if you have bad drummers, better keep them on electronic... In my case i did that just to control him (and yea...got an stereo output drum set). But agree, no matter what plugin we use, will never sound as acoustic.

[@sisisisina-dd8pe]

That’s real drums not electronic