Drum critique?

[bloodknucklesss]

Hey guys, I've been cyber stalking you guys on this site for a while now and finally got round to making an account. Same cliche story: I'm trying to produce a few half decent demos for my band and would love some advice on my drums. They are SSD4 with some sturgis samples thrown in. Dry and wet drums are mixed together and I've tried my best with compression/eq/etc.

http://soundcloud.com/bloodknucklesss/drumexample

I'm obviously not entirely happy with them, but I'm hoping that someone is nice enough to offer some advice that'll help bring my drums to life!

Cheers dudesss :Spin:

 

[FrankTheSmith]

Sounds like the kick drum is too roomy and the toms are too loud. Maybe add a few db of 6k and or 12k on the kick.

 

[bloodknucklesss]

Sounds like the kick drum is too roomy and the toms are too loud. Maybe add a few db of 6k and or 12k on the kick.

Awesome. Thanks!

 

[bloodknucklesss]

Maybe I should of used blastbeats and raw audio of a lady getting rapped with a machette!

 

[JeffTD]

it sounds really mono and narrow. Programming needs a TON of work, all the velocities sound the same. No movement, sounds really obviously fake in a bad way.

 

[He's Dead, Jim]

Carve out a huge hole in the kick from 200-500 hz. It's all junk and it's reverberating a lot in this mix. Other people can probably elaborate/offer more advice but that's an easy first step to take.

 

[bloodknucklesss]

it sounds really mono and narrow. Programming needs a TON of work, all the velocities sound the same. No movement, sounds really obviously fake in a bad way.

Oh yeah, I just chucked most velocities to 100% lol... So every second kick drop by 5% or something? Obviously they are stereo but any tips on how to get them sounding wider?

 

[bloodknucklesss]

Carve out a huge hole in the kick from 200-500 hz. It's all junk and it's reverberating a lot in this mix. Other people can probably elaborate/offer more advice but that's an easy first step to take.

Fair enough! Thanks mate!

 

[JeffTD]

Lower your mono ambience mics a lot, that's what's throwing things off. It's gonna take a lot more than just dropping every other hit 5%, you could write a book on drum programming. Just think how a drummer would play and how physically possible it is to be playing certain velocities at certain speeds.

 

[bloodknucklesss]

Lower your mono ambience mics a lot, that's what's throwing things off. It's gonna take a lot more than just dropping every other hit 5%, you could write a book on drum programming. Just think how a drummer would play and how physically possible it is to be playing certain velocities at certain speeds.

Alright thanks a lot Jeff. I'll try and work out how to lower my mono amb mics in SSD4 and hearing good improvements after taking in the importance of velocities. Cheers