Snares sound crap on every record ever

[meanmrmustad]

I've been mixing for 3 days straight(got 3 albums overdue) and took a break,
listened to some music but noticed that the snares on every song i tried to listen to sucked, the overheads to a lesse degree.

Do you all ever feel like that?

 

[viralz]

Every time I think a perfect snare sound is impossible to achieve I take out my Doomsday machine album and it gives me hope

 

[ChrisTanakaCanwell]

I've been mixing for 3 days straight(got 3 albums overdue) and took a break,
listened to some music but noticed that the snares on every song i tried to listen to sucked, the overheads to a lesse degree.

Do you all ever feel like that?

yes

 

[Nimvi]

With the exception of extremities, like super-ringy snares, I'm rarely bothered by them. But that could be because I don't judge a snare in a mix so much for the way it sounds as an instrument, but for how well it gives me an idea of the room the song is supposed to be happening in. Since snares are such a bursty instrument, I think they are a great playground for room-effects without clogging up the mix. Especially in dense metalmixes this can be a lifesaver.

In other words: as long as a snare helps me imagine the space of the song, and doesn't have some really obvious problems going on, I'm happy with it

 

[Mago]

guess that comes from you "mixing for 3 days straight".

plenty of awesome sounding snares out there

 

[mva801]

Actually no. I never feel like that. To me most of them sound like a damn snare drum. Some better than others. What are you listening to exactly?

 

[~BURNY~]

I used to feel that when I was a noob. It generally meant that my own stuff sucked but I somehow got used to it by listening to it over and over to the point of losing my objectivity.

Bottom line: Take a bigger break.

 

[thefalloftheheretic]

Actually no. I never feel like that. To me most of them sound like a damn snare drum. Some better than others. What are you listening to exactly?

St. Anger and We Are The Nightmare

 

[meanmrmustad]

I actually went to sleep for a bit yesterday and snares sound fine again hahahahaha

 

[meanmrmustad]

I dont mean the songs i was mixing just music i was listening to in general some testament and i forgot what i was listening to

 

[updog]

sometimes feel like that, maybe not because of snares though.

i still haven't found a metal album that sounds "perfect" in every way. always something that i don't like. it's annoying because i know i'm a shit engineer myself

 

[AllanD]

St. Anger and We Are The Nightmare

^Whoa, We Are the Nightmare has an AWESOME snare; so much fatness and snap.

 

[thefalloftheheretic]

^Whoa, We Are the Nightmare has an AWESOME snare; so much fatness and snap.

I'm talking about the really annoying piccolo snare. I swear, he had to have used 3 different snares on that album.

 

[LeSedna]

The cure of your problem is that flame hits in the break of the song "doomsday machine" when the snare comes in, and this toms work on the measures before that. Best drum sound ever IMO

 

[meanmrmustad]

The cure of your problem is that flame hits in the break of the song "doomsday machine" when the snare comes in, and this toms work on the measures before that. Best drum sound ever IMO

wich song and what time?:Spam:

 

[Fox Mulder]

sometimes feel like that, maybe not because of snares though.

i still haven't found a metal album that sounds "perfect" in every way. always something that i don't like. it's annoying because i know i'm a shit engineer myself

Hey same here

 

[TotalSatan]

I'm talking about the really annoying piccolo snare. I swear, he had to have used 3 different snares on that album.

He actually did. Darren has like 3 or 4 snares on his kit.

 

[Ermz]

 

[prostetnic]

Deftones' drums would like a word with y'all.

 

[Charles J]

Deftones' drums would like a word with y'all.

HAHAHAHA, for fucking REAL. Terry Date is the mannnnnnnnnn