6 Easy Drum Mixing Tricks to Try Out Today

If you’re looking to improve your drum mixes, let me give you three quick tips to try out over the weekend.

Throughout the years I’ve developed an extensive set of techniques to shape my drum sounds based on some very common problems that you may face as well.

Kick Drum Not Cutting Through?

If the kick isn’t cutting through the mix, here are two things to try:

Boost the high-mids around 1.2 kHz up to 3 kHz to enhance the sound of the beater.
If that doesn’t work, try using a transient designer to shape the attack of the drum envelope. This is often better than a high-mid boost because it’s just shaping the initial transient of the signal and not changing the frequency response of the kick drum as a whole.

Is Your Snare Too Thin?

If you snare is weak and lacking in the mix, try these things:

Add gentle saturation, like a tape or a tube emulation to make it warmer in the low-mids.
Use a snare-stretch reverb to add bigness to your snare without creating additional space or reverb in your drum sound

Are overheads Too Harsh?

If your cymbals are too bright and harsh, do this:

Add multi-band compression to tame the high-mid frequencies. This works especially well if all you have is a stereo drum track and you don’t want to affect the kick and snare with too much compression.
Use the search and destroy method to find the harshest frequencies in the high-mids with an EQ and simply cut it out with a broad cut. This works better if you have individual control over just the cymbals.

I discuss these tricks in detail inside the Drum Mix Toolkit eBook, and the video package will show you exactly how you do it, so if you’re interested in more tips like these, for drums AND vocals, get the Drum Mix Toolkit and Expert Home Vocals bundle today before I take the payment plan and bonuses away.

Click here for more details on what you learn from Drum Mix Toolkit and Expert Home Vocals.

Exclusive Bonuses This Week Only

If you purchase the Drum Mix Toolkit and Expert Home Vocals Production Bundle before Saturday, April 4th at noon MST, you’ll get access to these two exclusive bonuses:

Bonus #1 – Get Custom Drum and Vocal Mixing Tips on YOUR Tracks!

Send me your drum stems or vocal tracks for me to personally show you how I would mix them, using EQ, compression, effects, and parallel processing.

If you’ve ever wanted to get a specific sound from your drums or vocals but haven’t been able to figure it out yourself, this is your chance to learn the exact techniques you need to mix two of the most important parts of your song.

We will have a live class during the week of April 13th – 17th and if you send in your stems before that I will give you custom mix advice tailored to how you want your drum mix and vocal productions to sound.

Even if you can’t make the call, you can still submit your tracks ahead of time so that I can tackle them during the class.

Bonus #2 – Drum Recording in Small Spaces with Jeffrey Anthony

Jeffrey Anthony is an international recording and touring drummer who has performed and recorded with Sheryl Crow, The Portland Cello Project, Eric McFadden, Chuck Prophet, Casey Neil, and dozens more.

It’s almost guaranteed that you’ve heard Jeffrey’s drumming without knowing it. Jeffrey has recorded drums on hundreds of records, and since opening his remote drum recording studio in August of 2018 has recorded more than 140 remote sessions for artists on 6 continents.

Here’s what the interview covers:

His journey as a session drummer
The walkthrough of his drum recording setup and how he records drums in his home
How he makes his drums sound less “home-recorded”
How his process is like working with an artist, both remotely and in the studio
Tips on getting gigs through Soundbetter and Airgigs
His story of how he got the gig of recording “Soak Up the Sun” with Sheryl Crow

So if you’re interested in more tips like these, for drums AND vocals, get the Drum Mix Toolkit and Expert Home Vocals bundle today before I take the payment plan and bonuses away.

Click here for more details on what you learn from Drum Mix Toolkit and Expert Home Vocals.

Have a great weekend!

Björgvin

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