Me personally, I'm always struggling with the cymbals, and actually I need to make more "car mixes", cause when I listen back to it, something is always bothering me. And now I kinda wish I didn't post that sample, I'm kind of embarassed by it..... but this is kinda how I do it. Everything I use is Waves, and whatever stuff comes with Sonar. This is kinda my channel break down.....
(first off I pitch shift the Kick down about -1.5 in DHFS.)
1.) Kick Drum - w/ mild Compression with a huge swoop in the mids, and basically all low freqs pulled back. THEN... I make a duplicate send of the kick raw..
2.)Kick Drum - I low pass filter down to about 100k, then I take a Waves RBass plugin, set it about 50hz and get the gain where I like the mix the two to taste.
3.)Snare - I mix the bottom and top together, I still have issues here, i can't stop it from blinking my eyes when it hits.... I swoop some mids, and some comp.
4.)Toms - I EQ separately to get rid of some freqs I don't like in each tom, I bus those to a tom bus. Compress a bit. Bring up some Low Freqs, And pull down 8k, to stop that "Miami Vice" sound. DOO DOO, DOO DOO, DOO DOO, DOO DOO, DOO DOO! (what a moron...)
5.)Hi-Hat - I put this about 60% left, comp hard, to have almost no attack, swoop out that stupid middy sound, then drop back in the mix, like -16. But this is something I'm not happy with at all.
Now... this is where it becomes a mess.
6.) Overheads - Are all drums, NO cymbals or hats. Snare at normal volume, Toms about half of that, and kick is almost non-exsistant, but still there. Then I cut a big "Q" but not much, pulling down right in the middle. LPF about 16k. A tiny boost, small Q, towards 100hz to add some thump. Then I compress the crap out of it, lots of make up gain, hardly any attack, release about 250. But I can't get this perfect.
7. Ambiance - Are all my cymbals and my hi-hat. and 1.) Record .2)??????? 3.) Profit. I'm so lost here.....
And on a side note Fuge, I've been chasing your friggen' tone since I heard egg. I wanted to throw my computer away. You're one of those people that makes me hate myself.... But I'm will to help with whatever little knowledge I can give. Screenshots, Cakewalk Bundles, I don't give a shit. (Too bad, what I'm sharing isn't that good!) Once I get this Impulse stuff down I'll get better. I think it's great when people are more then willing to help others out.
