The snare drum is one of the most essential parts of your mix, regardless of the genre you’re mixing in. It provides energy, helps keep time and rhythm, and drives the mix forward. Oftentimes when we hear a mix which isn’t grabbing our attention and feels like it’s missing focus, it’s because the snare isn’t
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Gating drums is a common and useful technique when mixing drums to remove bleed and noise from individual kit pieces. This allows you to more effective process your kick, snare, hi-hat, etc. Let’s talk how to gate drums for a clean and professional sound, just like the pros. How to Gate Drums A gate in
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The kick drum is the anchor for your entire mix. It keeps time, establishes the rhythm; it’s the backbone. If the kick’s balance is off, if it’s not sitting just right, the entire mix will lack focus. Let’s cover everything you need to know about mixing a kick drum in one tutorial now. Mixing a
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A well compressed kick drum has added thickness and sustain to better feature it as the anchor and most important element in your mix that it is. In this kick compression tutorial, I’ll share the perfect kick drum compression settings to dial in to hit that sweet spot for your mix’s anchor. Kick Compression Below
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I always say the snare drum is one of the most important elements in your mix because it’s one of the most important elements of the drum kit. Second only to the kick, the snare is essential for keeping time, driving the song, and forming the backbone of the entire song. If anything about the
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