Mixing Drums with LV1 Classic Sounds So Good

[@ryancox2134]

Love the video. I just wanted to give a tip on the tom gating. If you find yourself putting gate thresholds extremely high, which is almost inevitable for toms, you've got 2 good courses of action to make it easier. The easiest way you can do it is by getting drum triggers and side-chaining the gate of the tom to that trigger. The triggers are a piezo design and while they will still pick up some cymbals and snare, the signal level when the tom gets hit is much higher so you can lower the threshold considerably. This does add cost of course and input channels on most consoles (put them in the aux channels on an M32, life saver) but the Pintech triggers are only about $20 each and then you just need a TRS to XLR adapter or cable and you're good to go. Don't waste money on a DI for the triggers. Option 2, which is free, is to key filter your gates. It will take some playing around to get it perfect but the key is to find a frequency or frequency range that the tom will open but the snare will not. I usually start at 120hz and move it around until I find a good balance. The key filtering method does get a bit tougher when the drummer has a drum shield.

[@jthunderbass1]

I am excited for the immersive video, when you guys release it!

[@FVDaudio]

It's not a rule, but I'm surprised that, being reverbs in sends, there is dry signal in them. Anyway. The sound obtained in general also has a trace of quality and of an unquestionable "broadcast characteristic". I loved the proposal of the console, I celebrate the increase in buses. ✨✨

[@FMI_TheMixEngineEar]

for a "smooth" sounding drums, all I need is only proper sounding drums, "industry's standard flagship" mics and the rest with my humble M32 digital mixer or stock DAW plugins, get it dialed in within 5 mins. for sure. 😂😂. but its a lil hard to get a natural organic timbre sounding drums.

[@marcus_bowling]

The snare top mic here costs $99.

[@jthunderbass1]

Are you doing throw and go, or are you doing virtual soundcheck at home to prep for shows? I can get good results in a 5 minute soundcheck, but I do my best work when I have a multitrack of the band and can spend more time on things. If you tune the PA using the scene for the band playing there multitracks through the desk into the PA and use that to tune, I find I get better results that way too. I get better results doing that, than I do by playing a tuning song. Just do the best you can and keep at it.

[@DbiPro]

Literally. “TUNE YOUR DRUMS DRUMMERS!!!!”

[@gideonpeprah]

This is good

[@wilcandou]

Please dont tell me that in order to maintain this desk via licensing you have to pay an ongoing subscription otherwise it shuts down functionality?

[@bswinn97]

First