Mixing HEAVY Snare Drum: Different EQ settings for top and bottom?

[@firmans12]

Cool Bobby. I like to distort the snare bottom heavily with tape saturation to kinda remove the wire feel. Or on the snare bus heavily distort the high end of the snare but sometimes kills the attack transient it really depends on the source

[@ace88bf]

Let me tell you how absolutely reassuring and validating it is to see that you do pretty much the exact same thing i do between top and bottom snare. All self-doubt is gone lol. Great video and insight as always roberto

[@amado5490]

I like how differently you treated each track and how radical you went on the bottom snare EQ wise. Also how you showed us the “papery” effect of having too much bottom snare in the mix. I got 3 tracks for the snare from this drummer: top, bottom and shell. So perhaps I have yet more reasons to apply a heavy high pass filter on the bottom snare too, as the shell mic should be bringing mids warmth already.

[@CrushingAxes]

I never paid too much attention to the bottom mic, just recently I've been trying eq/comp and it works so nicely! I used to just blend top/bottom mics, usually the bottom would be several db's lower.

[@FrightboxRecording]

It adds a lot. Once you get used to it, it's hard to live without it.

[@davidscafidi]

thanks for revealing your bottom verb trick. that paper sound was exactly what i was struggling with

[@oneminuteleft7345]

Love it! My approach is often quite in the same range eq wise. For the top using a reverb to change the sound works too; after the reverb, gate it that it just feels like the snare is bigger but not in a bigger room. On the bottom I love the ssl bus comp to really smash it and feed it into the snare bus just a little. For the bus (top and bottom) I mostly use a Valhalla vintage ambience verb and saturation to smash everything and then mix it in; this glues in a nice way. At the end a psp emt verb with 1.7sek and just 2-4% is awesome to put everything in a room.

[@reddoo8936]

I do the same with the bottom EQ as well, when I have a bottom mic that is. Since I only ever use it for high end snap, it just made sense to cut everything below the high end since I'm getting the body of the snare from the close mic/overheads/room mic

[@BrianWalis-Producer]

Curious if those sends are pre or post fader. I'm guessing post. Pre fader might be easier to get the level to the reverb but I'm guessing you're using post so it reacts to you automation. I think I have it but let me know if I'm off. Just trying to get into your head and workflow a bit. Great stuff as always!

[@FrightboxRecording]

Great question! They are post-fader because I want the level being sent to the verb to be influenced by the mix's actual fader level.

[@MusicForTherapy]

Not sure if you checked out the new EZDrummer 3, but it’s awesome

[@amado5490]

Gets hands on towards 4:15

[@boxculture]

Hello mate, Just in case you didn’t know. In your send, if you click ‘pre fader’, then the amount of bottom snare sent will not be affected by the volume fader. You can control it from the send fader. 👍🏻

[@FrightboxRecording]

I intentionally do it post fader so that the mix level of the bottom snare still affects the level that's sent to the verb. Definitely a fan of pre-fader sends of other things (like key inputs)!

[@AlexeySolovievMusic]

Great video Bobby! Thank you so much!

[@ShurekHam]

So Megaman-ish, amazing hauhaua

[@cultshakere]

what band is this sounds cool! the synth

[@FrightboxRecording]

King Kelly

[@davidscafidi]

yo ever try to mic the sound hole?

[@FrightboxRecording]

Of the snare?

[@davidscafidi]

@@FrightboxRecording ya . or any of the holes for that matter.

[@FrightboxRecording]

@@davidscafidi I've mic'd the shell of the snare in the past. It can add a cool vibe, but it's not my go-to.

[@SkreamerOfficial]

You're defiantly nuts............ but not because of this. XD

[@FrightboxRecording]

🤣🤣🤣