Mixing Drums Like a Pro: Home Studio Edition

[@keith_hudson]

Every time I watch I say, “gooday legends” at the same time. Puts a smile on my face.

[@spinlightstudios]

Haha love it

[@GeorgeAmodei21]

Very COOL to see this w/ Stock PLUG-INs

[@GeorgeAmodei21]

I’m trying out your moves in LOGICS on Project right now!👍🎚🎧George ☺️

[@spinlightstudios]

The old stock plugins do the job 😜

[@GeorgeAmodei21]

@@spinlightstudios yup even though we own this latest and supposedly 😜Plug-ins ! You can do a lot w/STOCK. I find myself going back 10+ years … pull up an old Project like you show at time and re- TWEAK IT! ( it shows us how far we’ve came and that were always learning!🙏👌🏼🎚🎧George. ☺️

[@ShiningHourPop]

You and Mike from Creative Sauce are really putting out the best home studio videos currently. God bless Australia 🇦🇺 (And that’s praise from a Pom! 😂 🇬🇧)

[@spinlightstudios]

Mike is a nice bloke too! Thanks man!

[@blitzrockbanduk7672]

You’re definitely a legend dude. Your videos are always quality.

[@spinlightstudios]

Thanks mate!

[@jensenkochdrums]

Thanks for these videos. I've learned a ton from your channel and have my mixes sounding waaaay better from a lot of your tips. Cheers!

[@spinlightstudios]

Thanks man!

[@jonahseago]

dude can’t wait to try this out on my logic project tomorrow🤟

[@spinlightstudios]

Hopefully some helpful nuggets in there

[@voxcapacitor]

So stoked for this video, thanks!!!

[@spinlightstudios]

Thanks man!

[@TheCrumbleOne]

Love the exciter trick! I think there's a newish distortion/saturation plugin, Chroma-Glow, awesome for drums

[@spinlightstudios]

There is! I was running in Rosetta and didn’t want to try and switch half way through when I realized!

[@TheCrumbleOne]

@@spinlightstudios next time 😜

[@willtremain]

Top notch as always 🙌

[@spinlightstudios]

Thanks Will!

[@gcpagliari]

Thank you!

[@spinlightstudios]

No problem!

[@1loveMusic2003]

Dynamic eq for OH symbol crash. I like this method cause it only attenuates when frequency gets to loud. A static cut can make it sound dull to me. Great vid!

[@spinlightstudios]

Thanks! Yeah for sure that can be good. No dynamic EQ in logics stock plugins though!

[@rome8180]

@@spinlightstudios It's not quite the same, but Logic does have a multi-band compressor. With a narrow band, you could get it to do a similar thing.

[@duppyoscar]

Awesome man. thanks!

[@spinlightstudios]

Thanks 🙏🏼

[@sagarsuthan]

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[@SoundsByHeazy]

Were the drum tracks stretched at all? In isolation some of the ghost notes on the snare sound stretchy. But in the mix it all sounds bloody great!

[@spinlightstudios]

Probably just cut up and quantized - probably the overtones when solo’d wobble a little from being sliced and stitched back together - this track is from 2013 so I was probably still manually slicing and cross fading everything back then lol

[@russgenders7550]

cracked me up at saying you hated the ua plugins showing up there. can't wait to hear how our stuff turns out

[@spinlightstudios]

Gonna be awesome! 🤩

[@caprising4445]

I do think the logic 'vintage' style eqs can be more phasy than others; I almost always reach for other eqs before those; the API graphic one can be very harsh when doing additive stuff... great vid

[@spinlightstudios]

Thanks mate!

[@Bania107]

I am not a mac user so I don't use "logic pro" but I have to admit it has really cool stock plugins

[@spinlightstudios]

Yeah they go alright!

[@easternsouvenirs]

So glad to see it’s not just me having issues with phase with tube eq in logic! So annoying

[@spinlightstudios]

Yeah it’s a bit weird, normally I’d expect phase issue maybe if using high pass and low pass filters but this EQ just goes out of phase 😂

[@hiyabuddy69]

Is it not because of the latency those plugins add?​@@spinlightstudios

[@rome8180]

Logic has a sample replacement function too. So you could have even skipped Trigger.

[@spinlightstudios]

Yeah I know, but only if I wanted to load one shots or use stock midi samples in logic … which I don’t really like. but I’ve done a video ages ago about the logic drum replacement tool - it’s definitely cool - trigger is 100% better

[@manuellujan5625]

Subbed!

[@spinlightstudios]

Welcome to the party 🎉

[@thommann8732]

Great video, as always from you! Just curious, were you doing centre-hits on the snare, or rimshots? It sounds like centre hits, am I right?

[@spinlightstudios]

I didn’t play this one! But I think he was a centre hitter from memory 🤔

[@evilone10]

Hi, regarding phase alignement, would you consider to do it with the room mics as well, or it is useless because it looses the 3D space feeling?

[@spinlightstudios]

I find it looses the depth! Usually just try phase inverting and see what sounds best for rooms!

[@GillyThaGOAT-fu6uv]

❤❤❤

[@burakakan8341]

hey man what do you think about phase aligner plugins for drums?

[@spinlightstudios]

I’ve tried auto align, I thought manually moving them around got a better result. Definitely worth trying out though, some people love them.

[@brownsnakestudios277]

I dare not tread in this area… yet! 😂

[@spinlightstudios]

Do it!