Drum Mix

  • Thread starter Thread starter Justin Gadell
  • Start date Start date
Yeah well the playing is not bad. Close mic'g the drums will help get more definition. I can hear snare, toms and the bass drum. Oh and the cymbal.
The mix is always subjective. If you like it you are done.
 
Yeah, more close mics. The kick and snare lack pop and presence to me.
 
awesome thanks guys...i did a recorder man setup on the overheads and close mic'd the kick, snare and floor tom...ill try just lowering the the overhead volumes a little and boosting those 3 close mics to see whats up. thanks again for the input
 
I like the song, very post rock. Also work on your technique. If you hit the cymbals on the soft side and the drums hard you can really bring up the overheads and get a very natural sounding drum recording.
 
In my opinion, the drums are having to fight with the other sounds too much. There's very little space left for them except on top with the cymbals. Try to clean up the lower mids in general, create some space in the low end for bass and guitar (guitar shouldn't be stepping on the bass in the lows and bass shouldn't step on the guitar in the mids). Try to have some space around 60-120hz for the kick to move around in. Consider some soft gating coupled with brutal compression on the snare to give it that "rock sound." Anything resembling a FET compressor like the 1176LN should do the trick.

If you've only been playing drums for a week--nice work.
 
thanks for the pointers again guys. im gonna start the recording for my next little post-rock album in january sometime so ill be sure to post up the first track after completion per say for some critiquing. cloneboy...its gonna be some automation for certain points as alot of my guitars have some low mids which i like but your right with it and the drums
 
If you're mostly a guitarist, and you like the guitar tones you're getting, at some point you'll have to realize that mixing is all about things playing nice. In reality, if you have a good bass tone, it can fill in the low end of your guitar sound and mix in general. Then you can do away with the nasties of the guitar in the low end and in the low mids. This will make room for the bass and drums to come through more without being so muddy sounding.
You're guitars will almost never need anything below 100hz, and there's often some nasty junk around 400hz that can be cut down on.
 
Very true with the roll off. Guitars tend to hit the ground running at around 100-200 hz. The fatness lies around 250 hz generally. But the bass and the kick should dominate the bottom end as they will do so much cleaner than a guitar.
 
Justin Gadell said:
short little thing i did...im new to playing drums so don't mind that. More curious on how well i did on the drums in the mix. everything welcome, i do like cymbal wash personally so don't worry about that i sort of went for that as i played.

https://soundcloud.com/justin-gadell/drum-testing
Click to expand...

That opening guitar has got some icepick shrillness to some frequency or other that you should cut. When the drums come in, they really lack definition. I think you gotta mic 'em closer and better.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top