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Your kick and snare are two of the most integral parts of any mix. Together, these two percussive instruments drive the entire song forward and act as a foundational base for the rest of the song to build off of.
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No matter what your experience level, I’m willing to bet these two things have affected you at one point or another: loudness and laziness.
Every engineer wants a massive, hard-hitting drum tone with powerful attack that cuts through the mix. What a lot of them don’t realize is that great drums come from the shells themselves just as much as the heads that are on them. While micing the bottoms of every tom still gets used by some engineers, the vast majority find their balance with a top mic alone with great placement.
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Drums are one of the hardest pieces of a mix to get the perfect sound from. Even if you were the engineer on the tracking session, the sound you were after during recording can change drastically once you add in other elements to the production. For this reason, many engineers choose to capture a “useable” kit during tracking without any intention of perfecting it until the mix.
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Getting drums to sit in a mix is hard work. As one of the most dynamic instruments you’ll ever touch – they’ve got a lot to offer your mix.
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