Mixing METAL Drums For Clarity & Size - Fixing It In The Mix Pt. 3

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How do you mix metal drums for clarity AND size?
As someone who mixes a TON of productions that I did not produce or record myself, it's extremely common for issues to come with the source tracks that I was given to work with..
​Especially when it comes to mixing drums.
​Drums are one of the hardest instruments to record and capture properly which results in them being one of the hardest instruments to get right in a mix.
And it becomes exponentially more challenging when you're mixing HEAVY music.
​For example:
​What do you do if the engineer neglected to record a room mic with the drum kit and your drums sound too sterile, separate and lifeless no matter what fancy pants convolution reverb you whip out in your drum mix?
​What happens if the engineer didn't tune or mic up the toms properly and there's a whole lot of muddy overtones and ring happening? What do you do when an EQ, gate or compressor aren't helping?
​​Well, in Part 3 of this week's "Fixing It In The Mix" video series..​
​I share my two favorite top-secret drum mixing hacks that I regularly rely on when I have to face one or both of the above common drum mixing issues.
​*Fun fact: For the audio sample in the tutorial, the engineer who was too lazy to throw up a mono room mic or tune the drummer's toms properly was ME. 😂
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