How do you EQ your drums?

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wow just got home from school and i see many formative posts, excellent description NL5 thanks for that.. one thing i don't understand is i see a lot of people saying, its a good idea if you have a lot of TIME or PAITIENTCE.. I don't see why it would take so long?? you zoom in on the snare and OHs and line one snare hit up and you've aligned them all, right? and then just repeat for the kick and everything.. i understand it would take a little time but it doesn't seem likes its as long as most describe it, but i don't know maybe I'm misunderstanding something?
 
Send me the tracks for a section of the drums , and ill give you back some pics of the eq settings i come up with.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here, t-sauce. the results would be the same as far as the pure alignment goes; everything is still lining up with each other. So either I'm missing something, or I'm misunderstanding what you're saying. Please straighten me out?
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OK, now I don't feel so bad. I was going to ask the same thing. If one's lined up to another, what does it matter, other than shifting the entire track forward or back, what you chose to line up to??? Won't the snare, toms, kik, etc...be lined up either way???
 
RAMI said:
OK, now I don't feel so bad. I was going to ask the same thing. If one's lined up to another, what does it matter, other than shifting the entire track forward or back, what you chose to line up to??? Won't the snare, toms, kik, etc...be lined up either way???
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If you align the way tarnation stated, the Toms and the kick will NOT be in alignment with the OH's. It will Have zero effect on the snare hits (unless you run your tom and kick mics wide open thru the whole mix - which I can't imagine anyone doing), and sacrifice the benefit of aligning in the first place on all the drums except the snare.

Does that make sense? I have a hard time explaining things........

edit - the distance between the OH mics and the kick is different than the snare, and is different than the toms, so they can't be in alignment with the snare and the OH's at the same time.
 
Nick The Man said:
one thing i don't understand is i see a lot of people saying, its a good idea if you have a lot of TIME or PAITIENTCE.. I don't see why it would take so long??
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It takes me less than five minutes - WELL WORTH THE TIME! :D
 
oh yeah ok lol i was gonan say it takes me about the same so good at least i know im doing it right .. i only hear a small difference but i guess everything counts.. ill have to post a sample of my snare on solo... its pretty brutal i really dont like the sound but ill see what you all think
 
Has anyone ever had any problems with phasing by using the nudge technique? Im thinking of the bleed in each mic creating unwanted phase issues from nudging.

Eck
 
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