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Quick question with regards to drums
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:29 am
by marshy
Do you normally use two completely seperate drum channels for intro and post-drop? I ask because it's common to leave the sub out untill the track drops, and to high pass the kick to give the sub room to breath. Do you use the same EQ'd kick aswell as the rest of the drums in the intro, or a duplicate, but seperately EQ'd version?
I'm drunk and just read that back, i have no idea if that makes sense or not but i'm going to click submit anyway.
Re: Quick question with regards to drums
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:36 am
by _boring
whatevrs clever!
i do think you should try to use the same eq settings for the most part because a huge part of the intro for a dj is getting everything up to the proper levels for the mix
Re: Quick question with regards to drums
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:28 am
by grooki
marshy wrote:Do you normally use two completely seperate drum channels for intro and post-drop? I ask because it's common to leave the sub out untill the track drops, and to high pass the kick to give the sub room to breath. Do you use the same EQ'd kick aswell as the rest of the drums in the intro, or a duplicate, but seperately EQ'd version?
I'm drunk and just read that back, i have no idea if that makes sense or not but i'm going to click submit anyway.
I do whatever really. Usually I make a couple of stripped down drum pattern for the intro. Often I weaken the kick too because my intros are pretty quiet and atmospheric often a thick kick sounds out of place....
What is fun too is to bounce your regular drums to a wav, and then mess about with that as a loop for the intro.
Re: Quick question with regards to drums
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:36 am
by tripaddict
i usually eq them individually
ie.
1 for bass drums
1 for snares
1 for high hats
and repeat
complete control hehe and use parametric eq on most channels & try not to compress
Re: Quick question with regards to drums
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:54 pm
by nowaysj
U can automate your eq settings u know?
Re: Quick question with regards to drums
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:50 am
by iambullet
No, completely different drum channels are hard to sound alike so you better use one and mess around like a mofo pre-drop with it. Apart from that the rule still applies: Anything goes if it sounds good. Let me tell you the highpassed drums with an automated cutoff are rinsed out like fuck though. I'm drunk myself as well but usually using the same kick makes sense, but you still could go for slightly (!) highpassed kicks (makes them weaker) till the drop so they can properly rip your face off and kill your family and stuff like tha.t