At 1:30, surely they've both been altered to allow the guitars and singing some space? At 3:10, the drums are pretty big again. In the intro, massive bass and drums with reverb.
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But I don't understand how to switch from 'thin' drums in the middle of a busy song, to a break or bridge where it is only drums and bass, and you want them to be huge again.įor example, Simple Boy by Karnivool. The drums on these plugins are heavily coloured, and it can lead to a lot of mud to the mix.Įxactly. One thing that helped me a little with EZD2 was to use it dry and then build my room with reverbs, compression, and EQ. A lot of the presets are for a specific tone, so to match to your track you're going to be doing some clicking thought them all, or additional processing (comp, EQ, limits etc.). Remember that these plugins are all samples, and can be layered as you please. Y'know, I grabbed EZD2 after being an Addictive Drums fanatic for a while and I feel this right in the chest. You’d be surprised by how many wrong assumptions you make about your mixes compared to others when listening to them totally separate. You should be able to get great mixes with plain, static eqs and effects.Īlso, remember to do lots of side-by-side comparisons with mixes you like, normalized to equal volume. Particularly if you’re a beginner, you might be going down the wrong path if you try to fix all your mixing issues with automation. Most of the heavy lifting is done by side chaining compression, master compression, and sound selection. I sometimes automate eq, but it’s always a last resort kinda thing. And if the eq is so drastic that it is noticeable, then the approach is problematic. If the eq changes at a particular point where the arrangement changes, it won’t be very noticeable. Generally, the last thing you want is for your mix to sound like someone’s turning a knob as it plays, unless you’re trying to add that as a special effect deliberately. What would you use for that kind of thing?
To get away for the drums for a moment, another example would be a fantastically thick and complex synth sound, that needs to be honed down and made thin when other instruments are in, and thickened out again during the quieter parts of a song. Would that not sound too jarring, going very suddenly from no EQ to extreme EQ? Not like the huge sound of the EZD2 kits at all. Just a mere 'crack' and a very small amount of sustain. But now I'm realising that when I watch a mixing video and hear their drums soloed, a snare for instance, they are so 'small', tinny and dry. Have you heard the EZD2 kits? When I bought it, I thought that the kits were ready to be dropped into a song. So what techniques would you normally use to get the drums out of the way, before resorting to EQ'ing the kit differently for different sections of the song? If the drums need to get out of the way, eq is a pretty heavy-handed way of doing that
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