I was finishing off some revisions on a record mix earlier today and remembered, while checking drums, that many people tend to ask about parallel processing, how to mix room mics, how to EQ individual drums etc. etc. I thought it would be a great case in point to just take the near-finished drums on the mix, and bounce them solo'd, so those of you who need to hear stuff in action can get a leg up.
The artist on this record requested a 'radio rock' approach, in spite of the music being, at heart, a lot more metal. So what you have here is drums that are very heavily parallel & serial compressed with outboard compressors, despite the fact that they're playing a lot of double-kick.
Here are the clips:
Drums - With No Artificial Reverb
Drums - With Artificial Reverb
I'll run through some basic things done to process them.
Kick: 100% replaced. Broad sculpting EQ done with a Millennia Origin to suck out low-mids, emphasize the click and bump the subs. ~6dB of compression done with a Distressor.
Snare: ~60% replaced. EQ'd with Duende Native strip. Serial compression with a DBX 160VU, and parallel compression with Distressor.
Toms: All natural. EQ and compression with Duende Native strip. Bus compression with CLA-76, and surgical EQ with eQuality.
Overheads: Compressed with Nebula SSL 4k channel compression. EQ with eQuality and Nebula.
All drums: Parallel compressed with Overstayer Stereo Compressor. Run through multiple stages of Nebula CLC saturation. Limited with L1. Run through GSSL on the stereo bus.
Hope this is useful to someone.
The artist on this record requested a 'radio rock' approach, in spite of the music being, at heart, a lot more metal. So what you have here is drums that are very heavily parallel & serial compressed with outboard compressors, despite the fact that they're playing a lot of double-kick.
Here are the clips:
Drums - With No Artificial Reverb
Drums - With Artificial Reverb
I'll run through some basic things done to process them.
Kick: 100% replaced. Broad sculpting EQ done with a Millennia Origin to suck out low-mids, emphasize the click and bump the subs. ~6dB of compression done with a Distressor.
Snare: ~60% replaced. EQ'd with Duende Native strip. Serial compression with a DBX 160VU, and parallel compression with Distressor.
Toms: All natural. EQ and compression with Duende Native strip. Bus compression with CLA-76, and surgical EQ with eQuality.
Overheads: Compressed with Nebula SSL 4k channel compression. EQ with eQuality and Nebula.
All drums: Parallel compressed with Overstayer Stereo Compressor. Run through multiple stages of Nebula CLC saturation. Limited with L1. Run through GSSL on the stereo bus.
Hope this is useful to someone.