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Big Drums
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:14 pm
by ENNO
I tried searching there but there are so many thread with the word drum and big in it I would have been searching for days.
Im finding it hard to make my drums present in some of my tracks without side chaining. Seems most of the big producers do the by leveling out the frequency's of the drums and sub so it not chopping the sub up every time the drum kicks. Does any have any information on this?
All help much appreciated
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:22 pm
by FSTZ
mix around the drums
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:29 pm
by therapist
ENNO wrote:I tried searching there but
there are so many thread with the word drum and big in it I would have been searching for days.
Im finding it hard to make my drums present in some of my tracks without side chaining. Seems most of the big producers do the by leveling out the frequency's of the drums and sub so it not chopping the sub up every time the drum kicks. Does any have any information on this?
All help much appreciated
The search function is awful, granted, there's a ton of information about this in the production bible bit though.
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:30 pm
by serox
Big drums are so 2009. 2011 is all about small drums.
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:36 pm
by JBE
ENNO wrote:I tried searching there but there are so many thread with the word drum and big in it I would have been searching for days.
Im finding it hard to make my drums present in some of my tracks without side chaining. Seems most of the big producers do the by leveling out the frequency's of the drums and sub so it not chopping the sub up every time the drum kicks. Does any have any information on this?
All help much appreciated
You need to give your track some extra headroom for each sound to sit more prominently. I usually have my kicks peaking around -8db. Sub sits right around -9 or so and snares between -8 and -10. You need to give each sound enough headroom to process itself. As stated in a previous thread, if your kick is peaking at -6 and your bass is also peaking at -6, you've essentially given up all you headroom to just 2 sounds and no longer have room for anything else. Once this happens everything begins to fight for space in the mix but the only way to do it is by taking it from another sound. It becomes a frequency war and the strong always prevail.
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:29 pm
by Sharmaji
turn everything else down.
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:10 pm
by the dub lemon
Hire Phil Collins for the day.
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:28 pm
by back2onett
parallel compression? also filter out any frequencies the sub is messing with
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:53 pm
by nowaysj
Fuckit bro, side chaining isn't a sin. Jezuz won't sneak into your window at night and give you a blowy.
Read the moneyshot thread. Read the whole thing, then read it again. Life changing thread, no joke.
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:10 am
by paravrais
serox wrote:Big drums are so 2009. 2011 is all about small drums.
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:31 am
by muchosarah
hi everyone, since i was a child it was my frustrations i really want to know how to play the drums... but since i was very busy i really dont have time to enroll my self in a school to teach me how to play the drums..
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:47 am
by boot
nowaysj wrote:Jezuz won't sneak into your window at night and give you a blowy.
Gold
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:07 pm
by JFK
muchosarah wrote:hi everyone, since i was a child it was my frustrations i really want to know how to play the drums... but since i was very busy i really dont have time to enroll my self in a school to teach me how to play the drums..
Cool story bro.
Re: Big Drums
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:37 pm
by green plan
serox wrote:Big drums are so 2009. 2011 is all about small drums.
Mad lolz.