I’m not only talking about compression. I’m also talking about eq and reverb.
In the videos, I see bryan or I’m not sure of the other guys name normally eq them as a group or compress them as a group. Is he doing this to save time or is this the way to go about it.
I’m not saying I’m right, I’m just asking for advice, but I was told or thought that you eq and add compression or reverb to individual noises of the drum set.
It may not be this cut and dry, so please help me out members.
i wouldn’t normally use reverbs over drums, sometimes i do over my percussion and its normally followed with a Gate to cut the reverb tails and a helps to stop the loop from becoming cluttered.
the only thing i use reverb on in my drum line, is my snare, and even then its just a touch.
Reverb is great, but not on anything in the low end spectrum.
normally i use reverb on hats and claps to give them a bit more oomph but never on my kicks etc i dont really compress my kicks either
are you all sending your drums to a bus and then adding compression?
Samuel, something I like to do is compress the drums, but not the hihats. However, I would only compress the kick to fatten it up. I know of some professionals that use a technique that would take the bassline and the kick and group them together and barely compress both channels to equal them out.
that is a cool idea I’ve never thought of. thanks.
I generally use reverb on snare and hats, rides etc.
I don’t usually compress my kicks as I tend to use kicks from sample CD’s.
I always buss my drum sounds and eq and compress.
My favourite drum buss compressor is PSP vintage warmer…fattens those beats nice!
yeah i also always group my drums and compress them (quite heavy) together.
i think it really gels them together and its a lot easier for my mixdowns to have all the sounds on one fader.
i also dont process my kickdrums on its one (especially dont compress them) because i found out that its too hard then when i run hot with the drumgroup compressor .
i also try sometimes to put the bassline (subby one) into that group - sometimes it really works with that one overloaded compressor.
but often i find it better to leave the bass as it is and fatten it up on its one using eq, psp vintage warmer etc …
@ belmiro
how do you eq your drums ? do you boost specific frequencies or only cut the rumble out of it ? (as i do mostly …)
cheers !
I always boost frequencies. I know it is better to cut, but when I boost them and do a comparison, I love what I hear. Perhaps later I will start cutting frequencies to get my sounds, but not yet.
What is this psp warmer you all are talking about? I’m going to have to look it up. Does it work on logic? Thanks for the advice guys.
[quote]samuelalbritton (7/15/2009)[hr]I always boost frequencies. I know it is better to cut, but when I boost them and do a comparison, I love what I hear. Perhaps later I will start cutting frequencies to get my sounds, but not yet.
What is this psp warmer you all are talking about? I’m going to have to look it up. Does it work on logic? Thanks for the advice guys.[/quote]
you may want to try Panning before you eq or compress find a nice place for the sound to sit before eqing compressing or adding any kind of effect.