So I think my weakness is drums

[kylendm]

So I think I've come down to realize that my weakness is my drum mixing skills. I spent the least amount of time with that and have read so many thing. I could use some help.

So here is what I do as far as drums. I have Superior Drummer and SSDs. With Superior I route all the instuments to two drum buses, one dry and one compressed and I mix them to taste. I don't use SD kick or snare (but I do use the room mic and snare and kick do come in through that), that's where SSD comes in and I use kicks and snares from that and route it to the same buses.

Then I route my snare to a verb bus which gets sent to the drum buses as well.

I feel like my drums are weak sounding still and I feel like I may be doing something wrong.

Here's a clip of my track.
[SOUNDCLOUD]http://soundcloud.com/kylendm/ataf/s-HChW1[/SOUNDCLOUD]

Not sure if this goes here or the rate my mix but I'm mainly looking for advice to get my drums sounding more alive I guess.

P.S. I know the drops are way too loud, sorry haha.

 

[RedDog]

Multi-out.

Gain stage.

VELOCITIES.

EQ.

saturation, compression (if that's what you're going for, but you kind of need a bigger grasp on what saturation/compression does and why you need it.).

Then there's that wall of noise called "GTR BUS" that you have to hack away at. Most drum mixes I hear get eaten alive by overly prominent guitars.

 

[kylendm]

Yeah I'm pretty much doing all that but I still feel my drums aren't huge. Maybe It's my guitars that are too loud and killing the drums.

 

[wetpenny]

blend in some CJ one shots & death kicks

 

[Catalin]

My humble opinion is that the guitars are a little too loud.

 

[kylendm]

Thanks for some of the tips. I think everyone was right about the guitars and I think it actually made the drums punch a bit more. Now I just need to get that snare a little thicker. GClip is sucking the life out of it but without it the transients are crazy and I can't get it loud.

Anyway here it is now.

Wetpenny, using death kicks already.

[SOUNDCLOUD]http://soundcloud.com/kylendm/ataf2/s-lpp7m[/SOUNDCLOUD]