Getting great drums start by PICKING GOOD QUALITY DRUMS. Experience in drumming and or programming. Blending comes when you when your gain stagung and mixing. This may take years to get. This is one of the things l get paid for. You definitely need high quality tools. When l asked the question l wasn't asking for me, but to continue this thread because l was asked.
The task is to keep the drums from clashing into one another in the stereo field. Panning is key. I hear some tracks and ever sound is up the middle. Definitely can't happen if you intend on putting vocals to it.
EQing is is essential in sculpting your drums properly. Filtering is a part of the process. Bell curving, cutting and boosting, knowing to roll off certain frequencies is an art of its own. The key is making sure you hear every sound in the track. If their are 10 sounds you should hear all 10 not 6. Some will tell you just use your ears. Yes but why use just your ears when you can use your ears and see what your doing.
I was told SOUND AND VISUAL EQUAL ACCEPTANCE.
Ones drums can sound great once you have the knowledge.
When l mix l use my Sennheiser 600 HD headphones. I monitor with the ATH MX50, car and major studio. Which sound great.
I am trying hard to get the video capture working on my main computer to show
What to do with drums. Synths etc will come later. Get those drums right the other instruments will be easier to from around the drums.
Cockdiesel wrote:Levels bro- it’s pretty clear that you can program stuff but you should work on blending the sounds. Start with putting filters on the sounds and learning eq. I’m not the best with surgical eq but I find using filters really help me put each sound in its pocket. Use some common sense and just play with it. That bass line could use a low pass and some drive to make it pop, the synth sound s can be dialed back some with a filter and given ambiance with a subtle delay and reverb, etc.
what are you monitoring your beats with and do you have access to anything with knobs or buttons?
