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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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Picking the right Direct Input (DI) box is one of the biggest upgrades you can make to your recording rig.
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This post-production approach to guitar isn’t new – the virtuosos have been using it for decades. Some of the biggest names in the guitar realm know that the studio is just another tool to use for new sonic exploration, and that’s a big reason studio albums from the likes of Buckethead, Steve Vai & Joe Satriani have all kinds of techniques applied.
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In rock & metal, your guitars are your lifeblood. Sure, the vocals are the focal point at the center of the mix, the drums need to sound big, and the bass needs to be full and powerful, but guitars are the one element of your mix that can be stacked one on top of another filling out a huge amount of space in your mix.
