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by nowaysj » Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:42 am
If ur having trouble with drums, I don't recommend layering shit up. That is some advanced techniques requiring potentially eq and adsr envelopes and compression. That's some advanced shit if you're at where you say you're at.
Just find good samples. Good samples are samples that sound good.
BUT I've got to say, yeah, you can make sick basses and sick this and sick that, but suck at drums... it's probably because everything is stepping all over your drums. The thing with mixing is that you've got to consider how EVERYTHING works with EVERYTHING else. The more elements you have, the harder that is because everything^2 gets quite large when everything goes up. So reduce the number of elements in your track. KIS.
So... Start with your drums. Write the whole drum section. Check your mixer, make sure the whole beat is peaking at -12db on your master channel. If that sounds quiet to u, turn up your monitors or speakers or headphones. No need to eq anything, just set the drums up, and set their levels right. If the snare is quiet, bring that up, or try another sample. But if you're already at -12db and you bring the snare up, something is going to have to come down in db, don't forget that - that is the primary lesson in mixing - something comes up, something else has to go down. Don't go over -12 db.
Once you've got the drums on lock, THEN start adding your sick bass and wat not. It's gonna be harder to make a sick bass now, because your subbass is gonna be all over the kick, your mid bass is gonna be all over your snare and that metallic grit bass that you love is gonna have it's dick your your hi hat's ear. So now it's time to resynthesize that bass so that the sub bass can get under the kick, the mid can get over the snare, and the grit can get out of the way of the hats.
When you're doing this, you've got to keep you're ear on the beat, if stuff starts disappearing in the beat, something is getting in the way, and needs to get the fuck out of the way - either in time, ie a beat before after, whatever, or needs to get out of the frequency range.
Producing and mixing is hard man, give it time, keep working at it, start turning an ear to how your favorite producers do what they do at a technical level. This will start to make sense. If you've got the musical talent, the production will become easy.
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