Drum Mixing - Cymbals and Rooms
Lesson 67 from: Recording Metal with Eyal Levi: A BootcampEyal Levi
Drum Mixing - Cymbals and Rooms
Lesson 67 from: Recording Metal with Eyal Levi: A BootcampEyal Levi
Lessons
Intro to Bootcamp
13:44 2Purpose of Pre-Production
15:54 3Technical Side of Preproduction
11:32 4Pre-Production: Setting Up the Tempo Map
12:05 5Pre-Production: Importing Stems
10:10 6Pre-Production: Click Track
15:26 7Creating Tracking Templates
17:03 8Intro and the Tone Pie
04:51Drums - Lay of the Land
10:44 10Bearing Edges
03:09 11Wood Types
10:36 12Depths and Sizes
04:00 13Hoops
02:38 14Sticks and Beaters
07:38 15Drum Heads
07:30 16Drum Tuning
1:03:54 17Drum Mic Placement Intro
10:37 18Basic Drum Mic Setup
53:36 19Cymbal Mic Setup
35:24 20Touch Up Tuning
46:55 21Microphone Choice and Placement
40:34 22Drum Tracking Intro
01:01 23Getting Tones and Final Placement
34:51 24Primary Tracking
31:54 25Punching In and Comping Takes
20:11 26Guitar Setup and Rhythm Tone Tracking
01:59 27Amplifiers - Lay of the Land
10:00 28Amplifiers & Cab Shoot Out
27:12 29Guitar Cab Mic Choice and Placement
03:56 30Guitar Tracking and Signal Chain
29:07 31Finalizing Amplifier Tone
51:24 32Guitar Mic Shootout Round Robin
05:21 33Intro to Rhythm Tracking
07:46 34Setting Up Guitars
15:02 35Working with a Guitarist
05:04 36Final Guitar Tone and Recap
04:10 37Guitar Tracking with John
15:19 38Guitar Tracking with Ollie
32:03 39Final Tracking
22:08 40Tracking Quads
33:44 41Intro to Bass Tone
01:26 42Bass Tone Setup
07:35 43Bass Tone Mic Placement
16:42 44Bass Tracking
45:08 45Intro to Clean and Lead Tones
02:15 46Clean Guitar Tones
34:04 47Lead Tones
10:58 48Vocal Setup for Tracking
11:26 49Vocal Mic Selection and Setup
02:38 50Vocal Mic Shootout
09:13 51Lead Vocal Tracking
38:09 52Writing Harmonies
07:44 53Harmony Vocal Tracking
23:25 54Vocal Warm Ups
11:39 55Scream Vocal Tracking
18:56 56Vocal Tuning and Editing Introduction
01:35 57Vocal Tuning and Editing
29:26 58Routing and Bussing
25:16 59Color Coding, Labeling and Arranging Channels
17:54 60Setting Up Parallel Compression
30:50 61Setting Up Drum Triggers
10:41 62Gain Staging and Trim
1:00:54 63Drum Mixing - Subtractive EQ
25:38 64Drum Mixing - Snare
23:00 65Drum Mixing - Kick
11:39 66Drum Mixing - Toms
24:47 67Drum Mixing - Cymbals and Rooms
17:23 68Drum Mixing Recap
08:57 69Mixing Bass Guitar
16:26 70Mixing Rhythm Guitars
1:16:07 71Basic Vocal Mix
1:08:59 72Mixing Clean and Lead Guitars
58:55 73Mixing - Automation
43:35 74Mastering - Interview with Joel Wanasek
31:01Lesson Info
Drum Mixing - Cymbals and Rooms
I do want a few cymbals in there. But, I'm going to control that hard. And a few kicks, but very, very little. (cymbal and drum beat music) Okay. In all reality, this is meant to sound destructive. (cymbals and loud drum beat music) I wonder if you can hear, I have it blended in there oh so quietly but it just adds a little bit of length and a little bit of glue to the whole thing. I have it with a fast attack and release so that it just gets on there and gets off very quickly and brings up the stuff around the snare heads. I've got the snare going to it probably the loudest out of anything. I might bring a few more cymbals in there. But, I wanna be careful so it doesn't become a cymbal mess. I'm going to actually turn down the amount of toms going to it, actually. I feel like they're making it explode a little. (cymbals and drum beat music) Using the SPL to make that parallel comp even longer. (loud cymbals and drum beat music) Funny how gross it sounds by itself. Gonna turn down a li...
ttle bit of snare going into it just a hair. (cymbals and drum beat music) You really only need the tiniest amount (cymbals and drum beat music) All right, let's see what's going on with a few more rooms. (very soft cymbals crashing) (cymbal and drum beat music) Just trying to get it to where the kicks don't cause a problem anymore with the low end. I'm not going to be able to get rid of them completely but that's fine. (cymbal and drum beats crashing) Sounds natural. (typing on keyboard) (cymbal and drum beats crashing loudly) (cymbal and drum beat music) Yeah, this drum is too loud. (cymbal and drum beat music) So far I'm not liking all the rooms. Oh well, it happens. (cymbal and drum beat music) All right, so it's starting to come to a point where I need to start adding other things or I'm going to completely lose any sort of perspective. But, the main thing that I've been doing is trying to control dynamics, get rid of frequencies that are really, really annoying and add harmonics where possible. Been using the virtual tape machine, for instance to just smooth out really, really pokey highs. Harmonics are your friends in that regard. I've also been using parallel compression to try to make things a little bit longer. And this is by no means a finished drum sound but it's a drum sound that's on the way. That's for sure. (cymbal and drum beat music) (cymbal and drum beat music) It's nice to really hear that. (cymbals and drum beat music) Just gonna double-check something. (cymbal crashing) Something in the kick sounds like it's farting out a little. Gonna get that under control. (kick drum beating) Ah, okay. (kick drum beating) (cymbal and drum beat music) (mouse clicking) (cymbal and drum beat music) Cool, I bet that that will cut over music. I think in the next session I'm going to start bringing in guitars and bass and really start fine-tuning those drums and getting guitar and bass down to really know where we're at. Because after everything I've done it would be kind of impossible to really know with these scratch tracks. Well, with these scratch tones. (cymbal and drum beat music) (bass guitar strumming) Yeah, that's gonna make a tone, cool. So this will be for the next time. So, next time I will refine the drum sound even further, dial in bass and guitar tones, start to get all that balanced and we'll move on from there. Without doing that, I can't really tell if the low end is right or if the drums are too pokey or anything like that 'cause I'm totally not used to these speakers. And I feel like if I go any further at this point I'm just gonna be spinning my wheels. So, I need to start working on other instruments and have something to work with so I can really, really finish up those drums and finish up the mix.
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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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