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Drum Mixing Recap

Lesson 68 from: Recording Metal with Eyal Levi: A Bootcamp

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Lesson Info

68. Drum Mixing Recap

Next Lesson: Mixing Bass Guitar

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Intro to Bootcamp

13:45
2

Purpose of Pre-Production

15:55
3

Technical Side of Preproduction

11:33
4

Pre-Production: Setting Up the Tempo Map

12:05
5

Pre-Production: Importing Stems

10:11
6

Pre-Production: Click Track

15:27
7

Creating Tracking Templates

17:04
8

Intro and the Tone Pie

04:52
9

Drums - Lay of the Land

10:45
10

Bearing Edges

03:10
11

Wood Types

10:37
12

Depths and Sizes

04:00
13

Hoops

02:39
14

Sticks and Beaters

07:39
15

Drum Heads

07:31
16

Drum Tuning

1:03:55
17

Drum Mic Placement Intro

10:38
18

Basic Drum Mic Setup

53:37
19

Cymbal Mic Setup

35:25
20

Touch Up Tuning

46:56
21

Microphone Choice and Placement

40:34
22

Drum Tracking Intro

01:01
23

Getting Tones and Final Placement

34:52
24

Primary Tracking

31:54
25

Punching In and Comping Takes

20:11
26

Guitar Setup and Rhythm Tone Tracking

01:59
27

Amplifiers - Lay of the Land

10:01
28

Amplifiers & Cab Shoot Out

27:13
29

Guitar Cab Mic Choice and Placement

03:56
30

Guitar Tracking and Signal Chain

29:08
31

Finalizing Amplifier Tone

51:24
32

Guitar Mic Shootout Round Robin

05:22
33

Intro to Rhythm Tracking

07:46
34

Setting Up Guitars

15:02
35

Working with a Guitarist

05:05
36

Final Guitar Tone and Recap

04:11
37

Guitar Tracking with John

15:19
38

Guitar Tracking with Ollie

32:03
39

Final Tracking

22:08
40

Tracking Quads

33:44
41

Intro to Bass Tone

01:26
42

Bass Tone Setup

07:36
43

Bass Tone Mic Placement

16:42
44

Bass Tracking

45:09
45

Intro to Clean and Lead Tones

02:15
46

Clean Guitar Tones

34:05
47

Lead Tones

10:58
48

Vocal Setup for Tracking

11:27
49

Vocal Mic Selection and Setup

02:39
50

Vocal Mic Shootout

09:14
51

Lead Vocal Tracking

38:09
52

Writing Harmonies

07:44
53

Harmony Vocal Tracking

23:25
54

Vocal Warm Ups

11:40
55

Scream Vocal Tracking

18:57
56

Vocal Tuning and Editing Introduction

01:35
57

Vocal Tuning and Editing

29:26
58

Routing and Bussing

25:16
59

Color Coding, Labeling and Arranging Channels

17:54
60

Setting Up Parallel Compression

30:51
61

Setting Up Drum Triggers

10:41
62

Gain Staging and Trim

1:00:54
63

Drum Mixing - Subtractive EQ

25:39
64

Drum Mixing - Snare

23:01
65

Drum Mixing - Kick

11:39
66

Drum Mixing - Toms

24:47
67

Drum Mixing - Cymbals and Rooms

17:24
68

Drum Mixing Recap

08:58
69

Mixing Bass Guitar

16:27
70

Mixing Rhythm Guitars

1:16:08
71

Basic Vocal Mix

1:08:59
72

Mixing Clean and Lead Guitars

58:55
73

Mixing - Automation

43:36
74

Mastering - Interview with Joel Wanasek

31:02

Lesson Info

Drum Mixing Recap

Hello, I am Eyal Levi and welcome to my Metal Recording Bootcamp on CreativeLive. This is day and if you haven't seen days 1 through 15, it's probably a good idea 'cause we're right smack in the middle of a mix about to get started with guitars and bass and if you haven't seen everything leading up to this point, this might not have any context for you. Anyways, it's a track by the band Monuments called "Quasimoto" that we tracked all up leading to now and I got some basic drums and balances going. Yesterday, I actually fixed some problems overnight, put them in the mix, I'll walk through those and then get going with guitars and stuff. So this is where we're at right now. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) Alright, so I think that that's better than it was yesterday. I'm still kind of in the dark with what these speakers are doing but I'm not as pissed off so that's always a good thing. Show you some of the differences. Some of the things I made, some of the things I changed. Well I just fig...

ured let's call a spade a spade and I got rid of most of the bass tracks. It was just a lot of work and not much gain cost benefit ratio wasn't very good on the amount of bass microphones that I had. Not that they sounded bad, but just having to wrestle them too much. So I took the POD, the POD track that John Brown made on his POD HD Pro and then I took the DI. I got rid of some of the processing on the toms and just went for group processing and I think they sound better. I think they were sounding a little bit on the push side yesterday but you can hear now that they sound like they sink in a little more. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) And they just kinda, they just kinda glide in there a little bit better. Yesterday they were kinda, a bit kinda annoying. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) And I'm going to turn up the floor tom a little bit. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) Now that's what I call awesome. As far as the snare goes, I also, I got rid of some of the samples, redid some of the balances and, simplified a little bit of the chain 'cause I feel like it might have been going a little bit overboard yesterday. I got rid of the parallel bus on the toms, I got rid of the parallel bus on the bass and I got rid of a parallel bus on the kick as well. I redid the kick a little bit to be a little thuddier and less clackity clack. We can check that out. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) Those are just the scratch guitar tracks, I mean the scratch guitar tone. (rock drum beat) Also gave the snare a little bit more beef so it wouldn't be so cracky and annoying but it's still pretty cracky. Any more beef and I feel like it might've gotten lost with the guitars but we'll see once we start really working on them. (rock drum beat) Let me go from the beginning so you can hear those toms coming in again. (rock drum beat) There's one thing that I did not touch yet that I feel as though I should touch. (snare drum hit) Got a snare room here by Steven Slate. It's going, it's routed to the cymbals but just before I forget, I'm gonna just do a few things to it. Going to limit it, (snare drum hit) and then I'm going to put a transient designer on it to get rid of some of that crack so that it's more about just length. So where are you, SPL. (snare drum hit) And I might add some harmonics to it. We shall see, we shall see if it works. Where you at Decapitator? Oh, wrong menu. Funny how that happens. (snare drum hit) I'm just curious. What presets do they have for snare? For drums? Snare Accent, Thumpy and Bumpy huh? How about Room Driver? (snare drum hit) How about not. This might not be a good idea. (snare drum hit) Ah, that was good. Drum Fattener 3, perfect. That's exactly what I wanted. (snare drum hit) (drum beat) And of course, this is too loud. And now our snare's just a little bit longer. I didn't wanna forget to do that. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) Reason that I'm doing this with music playing is 'cause it's really hard to know how long that tail is or if it's even audible when you're playing it by yourself, by itself. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) Okay, that's pretty good. There's some automation stuff that I'll have to do later on but for now, I think it's good to move on.

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Ratings and Reviews

Ron
 

I'm on lesson 19! Already worth every dollar!!! Priceless insight! I have already incorporated some of the ideas (preproduction common sense stuff that I never thought of, but damn). VERY HAPPY with this course! ALWAYS LEARNING and looking forward to the next 50 (or whatever) lessons!!! Excellent course! GREAT PRODUCER/ENGINEER, GREAT DRUM TECH, and GREAT BAND!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

ceeleeme
 

I'm just part way though and I'm blown away by the quality approach Eyal takes to getting the best out of the sessions. I love how well everything is explained and Eyals calm manner is just awesome it really makes you want to listen to the gems of wisdom he offers.

Will
 

Wow is all I can say. This bootcamp goes in so much depth from tuning drums, setting up guitars, to recording and mixing. I have learned so much by participating in this bootcamp. It has taught me some new recording techniques and signal routing for my mixes. I just want to thank Eyal, Monuments, and Creative Live for taking the time to do this. It has been amazing and I will keep going back to these videos.

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