- Mar 8, 2013
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I was wondering if anyone could please help me out with my drum sound, i live in a shitty little town at the bottom of England and have no one else interested in production who can help me out. I really need someone to tell me what i am doing right and what i am doing wrong in order for me to improve my sound, i'm not going to say 'GIVE ME SCREENSHOTS OF YOUR COMPRESSOR AND EQ SETTINGS' like i have seen many people do on here, i just need people to point me in the right direction and i would be really grateful if someone could help out, i am getting really stressed about this, i also have a feeling that my M-Audio monitors may be fucked...
Anyway here is a basic drum loop which is running through kontakt (Slate Shells and Sturgis emerald cymbals) Im using kick 10 and snare 12a (Shock) and everything is routed out to their own tracks, basic Eq such as 200hz being pulled out of the kick and boosted on the snare, The snare is sent to a reverb bus, All the drums are going to a main drum bus which also has a send to a parallel compression bus (Which doesnt seem to make much difference) I am just not getting the impact that i want from my drums and i keep clipping the input of my master even when using g clip on both the snare and kick channel, and then i have tried g clip and a waves limiter on the main drum bus but i cannot stop the clipping without the drums going stupidly quiet and losing all of their power.
https://soundcloud.com/olivertuck-1/drums-sounding-horrible-imo
Btw i am running cubase 5 and using the stock EQ, i find it easier to use but is there a possibility that it doesn't sound as good?
Thank you anyway
Anyway here is a basic drum loop which is running through kontakt (Slate Shells and Sturgis emerald cymbals) Im using kick 10 and snare 12a (Shock) and everything is routed out to their own tracks, basic Eq such as 200hz being pulled out of the kick and boosted on the snare, The snare is sent to a reverb bus, All the drums are going to a main drum bus which also has a send to a parallel compression bus (Which doesnt seem to make much difference) I am just not getting the impact that i want from my drums and i keep clipping the input of my master even when using g clip on both the snare and kick channel, and then i have tried g clip and a waves limiter on the main drum bus but i cannot stop the clipping without the drums going stupidly quiet and losing all of their power.
https://soundcloud.com/olivertuck-1/drums-sounding-horrible-imo
Btw i am running cubase 5 and using the stock EQ, i find it easier to use but is there a possibility that it doesn't sound as good?
Thank you anyway