New article on mixing drums

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CyanJaguar said:
I think I preferred the unifixed bass to the fixed one though. I am listening on headphones.
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Focus on the bass and kick relationship.
With the unfixed bass, The kick and bass are sitting on top of each other Freq wise.
With the fixed version there is a clear seperation.

This is not to say that it has to be better but rather this is one of the techniques to help them sit together and not cancel each other out.
You would have to fine tune them both during the process of the mix so you might find yourself some were between the two examples.

I actully had to artificaly (for the examples sake) damage the bass sound to make it sound bad as in the inital recording the bass sounded to good.
Getting it to sound good right from the start is such an important factor that I cant emphesis this enough. It all starts from the instrument itself even before mic placment.

Prism,

I wanted to mention one more important factor as you asked about the room.

Close micking a drumkit, can be one of the better solutions to a bad sounding room.
The closer you mic the less the room has an effect if! you gate the sound from the close miced parts and cut most of the lows and mids from the overheads.
Although you cant eliminate the room effect totaly, you can use close micing to your advantge if your home studio acoustics sucks. Of course you need enough mics and gates.

Tekker,
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Hey thanks for the tips...
The thing is, I have never miked a drum kit before. Most of my recording projects so far have been extremely simple. (I wish I could go back and re-do some of them, considering how much I have learned since then...)
Heck, I haven't even recorded a guitar or an amp...sad, isn't it? Oh well, some day the opportunity will come.

Isaiah
 
This is great stuff. I always thought it was frustrating when you read a book or whatever on recording, and you can't hear what they're talking about. It's so crucial to know what you're supposed to be listening for. Thanks for this, and hope you keep it going.

Macle
 
Could someone tell me how to do this?

"Stereo Bass - Have you ever tried a Direct bass sound panned hard left and then a short delay of the bass panned hard right? Or tried a chorus-flanger effect panned100% wet to the right? This will leave the kick in the center, alone on the bottom end"
 
* Pan your bass hard left
* Send the bass via a aux to a delay unit
* Plug the delay output into a new channel on your mixer
* Pan that channel hard right
* Set the delay for a - up to 25ms delay

Same with a chorus - pan the original bass hard left and 100% wet signal to the right.

If you will hear it it mono than you have to take care of phase problems if they occur.
 
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