Beefing up choruses

[Z3R0]

Killswitch has some epic mountain-top choruses... and i've been hearing tambourines in them


haha

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

one word... tambourine

Andy's favorite

 

[GarethSE]

So is that as simple as setting the bpm of the track panning the right guitars delay to the left and vise versa, bring it in on the chorus via automation, voila?

yeah.

 

[GarethSE]

Forgot that boosting guitars up!

Some even boost the whole master up, even going slightly higher as the song progresses.

And if you have room mics for your drums, mute them in the verses and bring them on in the chorus.

I usually ride my room mics up 2-3 db during choruses rather than muting them the rest of the time.