The Secret to Powerful Drums: Kick and Snare eq compression saturation settings

[@nicholasparis5281]

Nice title for the group: "COLORSVOID"... pretty cool.. I had just written a lyric a year ago or so how'd it go.. "I'm in love with the moonlight on your face, tonight... and the light, fills it's void, with the colorless sensations of darkness, and life somehow, always finds a way back home again".. this idea that color is defined by it's darkness, but it's through the darkness.. when can come back to life or into the light... IDK, maybe this post should be more in the philosophical section you were working on?!

[@nicholasparis5281]

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[@thisisDeus]

honestly my friend, I have learned an enormous amount from you. thank you so much.

[@error0ne]

mixbus is the king

[@nicholascowan1731]

coming back to this beauty of a video again.

[@davidetrani6115]

Great advices as usual, implementing your teachings is making my mixes better every time, also i noticed the automation on the reverb and hell it works! " The difference between boys and men!!" Have a nice day!

[@andyhardwickmusiccomposer]

Hey, thanks for this. Best mixing tutorials on the net!

[@takis.c]

Well done David! For the most projects I follow the same process for kick and snare. The difference is on plugins and that I usually trying not to use a limiter on tracks. But I understand your way. Waiting for the second part.

[@TimeMarchesOn]

Still, with you, David great video thank so much❣️

[@allenmitchellanthony4344]

David i cant take it anymore. every video is amazing. no exaggeration. love the gear porn and studio tour you are currently doing. thanks for these vids.

[@nicholasparis5281]

Yeah really haha.. Doesn't Dave have a knack for taking even what might be considered as the least sexy or more boring aspects of audio engineering and make them just light up?! I think it's got to be know-how-no-doubt, but it's the ATTITUDE that makes it!

[@AutoclaveBeats]

Thank you for this video David...do you still use the urs saturation? Please what other saturation plugin do you recommend for programmed snare and kick if you are not in pro tools

[@mixbustv]

I don't, it's not available for PT aax 64bit PC. Decapitator, Sountoys radiator, loc-ness, ozone exciter and abuser (now called something else)

[@nicholasparis5281]

& Would I be correct in guessing that your CRUSH BUS is in MONO, for the line of thinking similar to Mid-Side thinking.. like keep the parallel distortions in mono to keep it more impactful in the center, where it's going anyways (as opposed to adding any kind of stereo width, bc we're looking for Impact, and Snap that hits you in the center of the chest sort of speak)?

[@wickstorm_records]

Hi. I’ve been producing and mixing my own music for 10 years with over 3 million streams on Spotify. I recently discovered your channel and I’m blown away with your skills. Seriously thank You. Do You have a Patreon?

[@CornSw]

Hi Dave! I have a question that might be quite silly, but qurious still: first you use the FabFilter Pro Q 2 and then when you wanted to add some more EQ you used the stock plug-in in Pro Tools instead of another instance of Pro Q 2. My question might be silly, but why not two instances of either the FabFilter or the stock? Is it because of their different characteristics, or did it just happened to be that way this time around? Love the video!

[@CornSw]

Thanks for the reply, Dave! Hm, interesting. This might sound crazy, but I've always thought of the Pro Q 2 as superior in sound quality (correct me if I'm wrong) and that it would be better suited for all kinds of EQ tasks, even the more crazier ones. However my opinion is not based on personal experience but on the number of features and a shootout I heard not long ago (however, I forgot that taste is subjective): www.gearshoot.com/shootouts/equalizers/

[@CornSw]

Yeah, I guess I can't really claim it to be superior in sound quality since I guess it's a matter of subjectivity. But in regard to functionality and flexibility, my impression is that the Pro-Q 2 is superior. :)

[@TLguitar]

I like how this 16:08 minutes long video was uploaded "48 seconds ago" and it already has 3 likes.

[@Boiled_Bologna]

He could have shared it privately before publishing it.

[@marlonfrancis3180]

you should do a video on gain staging. im kind of confuse about gain staging because there are alot of videos out there with different info. on the subject.

[@VictorLee335]

Is the reason why your snare bus is stereo because of the samples? Are the samples in stereo so you can take the room reflection recorded with you?

[@alwayzfwdbeatz]

Hello David, do you sum all your kick drum to one mono or stereo bus? For example, if I layered a kick with 808, will it be sending both to a mono/stereo kick bus, and then EQ both if needed?

[@alwayzfwdbeatz]

Thanks Dave.... I have a compression question. If your digital drums all at the same velocity, do you have to compress them since they are at the same volume?

[@janminor1172]

Man Bless you would not compress for level, but you could compress for sound design and effect, to work out the transients or the body (although an envelope shaper would be a good alternative for this purpose), add or remove smack, crush them or fatten them up with parallel compression and so on. Actually, this is pretty much described in the video :)

[@alwayzfwdbeatz]

Jan Minor thank you for your answer.

[@seankenny686]

It's saying part 2 video is unavailable??

[@wylhill437]

awesome tuts as usual david, i was wondering why you never seem to use sknote disto as a temp replacement whenever u don't have your hardware with you?

[@nicholasparis5281]

Ok here's a question.. I noticed on your snare SUM 7 band EQ, you didn't bother to use the HPF section.. I was always curious from tracking to mastering, if you're using any EQ at any point in any stage of production, and you don't want low frequencies to pass through the audio to keep things clean on any given track... so you don't need to keep using a HPF as I saw you not do in the last EQ for the snare, right?... in fact, once you've got your bottom end shape per instrument, will you refrain from using a HPF after that, period? (unless maybe something comes into the mix that demands reshaping the bottom content, of course)... so in other words, there's definitely a proper time to utilize HPF, and other times when using it would be reshaping a job that was already completed?

[@1loveMusic2003]

Hey David. Do you compress a snare then clip and limit or clip and limit then compress?

[@mixbustv]

I don't limit (as in brickwall limit) snares, clippers and analog (usually Fatso)

[@1loveMusic2003]

Cool. The Fatso is used as a kind of transient shaper to get the snap and sustain you're looking for I guess? I want a Fatso really badly they sound amazing! Thanks David. Love the content. I always tell people to go to your channel if they want the truth about mixing and mastering.@@mixbustv

[@josefrancisco6969]

Do you realing your samples when triggering and check for phase issues ? i found that when using drumagog i always have to move the sample tracks a little ( half ms for example) in order to get them in phase.

[@underpressureman]

what do you mean when you say all 3 mics are summed? can you explain what that means?

[@underpressureman]

okay thanks. Im still fairly new to recording/mixing!

[@Doug_Diego_Cazadores_Cassidy]

Do you ever do the kick->bass sidechain trick? (Creating holes in the bass for the kick) I tried it, recently, where the bass was this mega distorted, strummed bass. Worked pretty good, i think.

[@TheNaddane]

Doug Cassidy I strongly believe everyone does this.

[@Doug_Diego_Cazadores_Cassidy]

Does anyone apply it to other instruments? I'm thinking rhythm guitar, maybe. Perhaps David will do a little tutorial on it :)

[@15bleach51]

Why don't you use parallel compression for whole drumkit? Why only Snare and Kick?

[@mixbustv]

I do, not as a rule, not all the time

[@keepmovinent7679]

What about transx and smack attack ?

[@keepmovinent7679]

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[@MrAcapela]

Excellent Vid

[@rickyguitarman3839]

editing drums, bass and vocals is a F****** *nightmare*

[@keepmovinent7679]

That's why gain staging is important because as the mix goes on u need to add 💩.....I almost died 🤣

[@hlaingrecords2713]

why you using so much snare. don't see the point ,,in a band its, only one snare..you make it look so long, and hard

[@mixbustv]

Do you listen to the snare with your ear 4 inches away from the snare itself? No? Because that's where the mic is placed to record a real snare, so half the work is to actually make it sound as if it wasn't recorded with a tiny capsule 4" away but instead, like you are listening to it in the room. Then there's the matter of making sound like that when a wall of guitars is also playing, and vocals. Then there is such a thing called "wall of sound", an universally embraced concept of using the recording and mixing processes not just to coldly report what's being played but to make music bigger than life, add drama, add greatness, because a mix engineer worth a dime should have equal if not bigger creative force than the artists themselves. Or in short, because I mixed it and I liked it that way, so my clients.