Don’t play on hard mode! Nobody likes aligning drum samples, but it’s gotta be done– because phase issues can absolutely destroy your drum sound. But what if there was an alternative to manually aligning them, one by one?? Dave Otero shows he uses the Auto Align plugin to easily align drum samples to be phase accurate, using the raw multi-tracks …
Kurt Ballou dialing in drum samples
Turbo charge those drums! Kurt Ballou shows how he chooses, mixes and fine-tunes the drum samples from his signature Room Sound library in “I Can Tell You About Pain” by Converge in this clip from his Nail The Mix! Get instant access to Converge multi-tracks and Kurt’s full mixing session here! Nail The Mix is our online mixing school that …
Mixing a Luke Holland snare with Taylor Larson
The one and only rule of audio: it has to sound good I don’t know about you, but one thing I’m sick of is some self-appointed expert lecturing me about the “rules” of mixing. That you have to follow the “cut when you boost” formula, that EQ should always go before compression or vice versa, and so forth. That drum samples …