Thanks dude. Drums are real drums in this track. For mixing them, I pretty much follow Ermz's guide to mixing to a T. Kick is mostly triggered sound. I used nothing more than one SSL channel strip for EQ and compression for each piece and then parallel compressed the entire kit including OHs (unlike Ermz's mixing guide) with a Waves RCL compressor. Then the whole drum buss gets a little Decapitator saturation and Nebula Tape Saturation and I call it a day. I did not use one instance of G-Clip in the entire session like I usually go crazy with to get the snare LOUD but low peaking. The saturation took care of that.
Thanks dude. Drums are real drums in this track. For mixing them, I pretty much follow Ermz's guide to mixing to a T. Kick is mostly triggered sound. I used nothing more than one SSL channel strip for EQ and compression for each piece and then parallel compressed the entire kit including OHs (unlike Ermz's mixing guide) with a Waves RCL compressor. Then the whole drum buss gets a little Decapitator saturation and Nebula Tape Saturation and I call it a day. I did not use one instance of G-Clip in the entire session like I usually go crazy with to get the snare LOUD but low peaking. The saturation took care of that.
I seem to remember you had the waves NLS, did you stop using that?
. It's funny how circular these things can be. I recall years back being really impressed by what you were doing in your mixes, using some very basic equipment and samples.
I take it you scaled back on using console saturation in your mixing? I'm only listening on headphones, but it doesn't sound like there's any of that VCC/NLS thing going on?
When it comes to the album, provided you do ever finalize the tracks, let me know if you want some outboard printing done.
Thanks, dude! You know, I never thought about profiling the POD Bass tone. I'm going to try that out. A lot of that tone is the bass though. Its a Soundgear with active eq and all sorts of tone shaping options. My P Bass through that patch sounds like complete unusable ass.