3 Secrets to Massive Drum Room Tracks
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2024
- Get your drum mix sounding pro - starting with these tips for drum room mic processing.
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shaving the top end off was definitely an "aha" moment for me! thanks!
Can we all just take a second to acknowledge how good these drum recordings are. I was working on a track recently where I wasn’t as blessed with quality and let me tell you it was so much harder to balance the room and kit mics 😂
Really great video and video and audio quality. It really lets Roelof's talent as a tutor, as well as a mixer come through. thank you!
I *needed* this. I just haven't gotten my drums quite where I wanted them. If I brought up the room, it was getting too boomy - so I backed them off. Adding those eq cuts - then bringing the room up - helped a lot.
Thank you.
Great tips and insights! Recording and mixing live drums is one of the hardest things to do well in engineering. The way you laid it out with your line of thinking is perfect
Hell yeah another D.J Roelof vid! 💪
What a brilliant insightful video, This is golden knowledge..thanks for sharing
Really well explained, Rolly.
Another useful way to deal with the high end but preserve character is to de-ess your rooms if you have a strong, customizable de-esser, like fab filter. 👌
Removing those ugly low-mids in the room mic really opened up the drum mix! Nice one 🔥
Totally agree with you. Doing a lot of mixing in this period, the exact same conclusions come to mind especially for room and verbs volume relative to the all mix. Thank you!
The tricks with the EQ and compressor are excellent, and you can even take them a step further by applying it in combination with transient and sustain processing, such as the transient/sustain matrix in iZotope's Ozone 11 EQ. For example, you can use the EQ trick, targeting around 160Hz with Ozone 11's EQ, and reduce only the transients in that specific frequency range. You can also apply the high-cut filter trick to cut more of the transients rather than the sustain. Or, with the iZotope's Ozone 11 compressor, you can compress only the sustain while leaving the transients untouched.
Sage advice as always, Roelof!!
loved it bro thanks, backward forward concept
Great stuff! I really love the sound of drumrooms, and it seems to me that all "protips" are to have them low in the mix. So as a noob it's good to get some kind of validation to push them way up👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻
Great to the point vid on improving mix with room mics thank you!
Great video brother
Thanks for this great video. This is really well explained, really loved the bonus tip !
Good tips. Just what i needed.
Great video, Roelof!
Two big tricks the pro's use on room mics but rarely talk about are:
1. Saturation
2. DeEssing (highest frequency setting)
The only thing I didn’t already do on my rooms was the low pass filter. Not a bad idea. A low shelf could work too. I also time my release on my room comps to be a bit faster than the temp of the song’s fastest beat. So usually a 16th or 32nd note.
Niiiiiiice !!!!!! In the mix cheatsheet there's a boost recommanded on room mics between 5k and 8k, so quite the opposite of what you're doing here. Is this decision relative to the size of the room ?
I love that every time I think I've finished a mix, something like this happens. No wonder I can't finish anything 😂
Awesome tip!
Pulsar 1178 is great for rooms. Nice saturation too.
What‘s your take on using some saturation or even distortion on room mic. I feel it adds some excitement.
Thank you so much. This is like skipping 10 years of trial and error in the space of a single video.
Overall a pretty damn good video. I find your advice on low passing room mic quite dangerous. It actually depends on your room and the music style. Quite often I do exactly the opposite even high passing as high as 500 Hz !
Roelof!🤟
Do you phase align your rooms with overheads? I found the rooms lose their effect when I do that wondering how you feel.
Always thought of the rooms (and overheads, to some degree) as the tracks that will create your drum "density" in the mix. How much sonic space they take. So I took to basically working with those tracks first and getting the "size" of the drums right and then working the directs in to get better readability and closeness.
I've always used a HPF to clean up the kick below 100Hz. Is that a bad idea? I kinda use the room mics to focus on the snare, more than anything else.
Loved the EQ part.
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I wanted to know why you don't crank up the attack of the compressor to the fastest, since you only want the sustain material from the room mics? :D
The attack on the 1176 is already super quick on 5, so he doesn’t need to go any faster :).
just use a transient designer,boost the sustain!😜
thx
The symbol for mixing in solo is a snake eating it's own tail.
without The Lopéz-Filter :D topend gets very busy together with saturation and oversampling you get very harsh highs
What tips do you have to get that big spacious drum room sound when using digital drums?
Try to send them to a reverb bus with a room/chamber/plate verb and see if some of the same things apply! The only problem is, the signal will not have any extra details to pull out, like a real room mic
Many drum programs include a room mic channel, I'm sure these things are already done to it, cleaned up
Most (if not all) good libraries have room mics at this point. If not, you can fake a room. Reverb is a way to do it, but there are some other things like UAD Sound City Studios you can try out.
I find that I lose so much definition in the snare and kick because of the fase. This makes me just cut the low-end making your great tip to shave of the high's not worth it anymore. There is nothing left.
Why would you want your drums to "compete" ? drums boxing match ? very strange idea. But nice video, very clear demonstration.
Footloose cover?
Where's Jordan? has this guy taken over the channel? seems all videos are now this guy.
He sold his channel 😢
Show how you can do EZDrummer if you are such a smart man.
Multi-output your drum kit from ezdrummer and do the eq/compression moves he did in this video on your room track
Jordan I thought this was your channel brother..! Where you at?!
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nah bro where is the other guy ???? let him explain things
It looks like the original channel is hijacked ?????
This was brilliant, what you on about ?
Roelof works with Jordan and is just as talented as Jordan. Show some love.