Mixing Colony House Drums on dLive

Michael Keith Lewis (FOH for Colony House) takes us through his mix of his drum sound for Colony House on the Allen & Heath dLive as well as his chain for Waves SuperRack.
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[@timothydcraig4240]

MKL is one of the best in the biz. If you haven’t been to a Colony House show. Do it.

[@Worthyworshiprecords]

It is life changing

[@aidanhodgesmusic5257]

Michael is the best. One of the best mixes Ive heard live.

[@michaellewis6210]

🙏🙏

[@twopercentdrums]

Love the bit about how tuning matters!

[@grantlabutis6934]

MKL is legit. Got to see colony house in Columbus last year. Legit best live mix I’ve headd

[@emeispacetwang3513]

Best engineer in the game

[@johnmcvicker6728]

Number of fingers away on bottom matters. a couple inches can really affect the tight interaction. So input delay by some number of samples can help tie them really well if you're not perfect on placement.

[@johnmcvicker6728]

I'd like to know if MKL ever used Waves Submarine on kick (or bass).

[@michaellewis6210]

@@johnmcvicker6728I’ve tried it before. It works well in some situations! More of an RBASS guy though

[@J_Walker]

Yes, all eq alters the phase (especially hpf). But your snare mics are not 180 degrees out of phase. You can reverse polarity again (on a plugin at least) after eq also, and often can get an even better phase coherence by using the eq phase shift to your advantage earlier in the chain.

[@michaellewis6210]

Good thoughts! I think a lot of inexperienced engineers don’t realize that phase shift is happening with EQ and that’s more of the point. Wish I would have mentioned checking phase AFTER you dial in an EQ if you need to do them differently. I’ve definitely been leaning a bit back into making the individual sources sound right, and then doing heavier lifting at the group level

[@J_Walker]

@@michaellewis6210 Yeah, certainly nothing wrong with any of it. I still do a lot of "top down" mixing also, just thought it was worth mentioning the idea. Your mix sounds great. In fact, that live drum mix on "Vol 1" (especially 2: 20) is ❤‍🔥if you did that too.

[@michaellewis6210]

@@J_Walker thanks! I did that record. Come a long way since then but it’s a rager for sure

[@jeremyontheconsole]

there's nothing ungodly by calling it a crouch mic hahah. Great stuff man!! good techniques.

[@morgansprouse2562]

This is the first demo of someone using waves where it actually sounded good… that’s a ballin drum mix

[@FMI_TheMixEngineEar]

D Live , D One i will always request

[@marcus_bowling]

It's finally here! Lot of really helpful ideas in the course.

[@gabriel-martinez]

9:34 was Milkshake by Kelis 💀