Tag: drums

Andrew Wade’s legendary DREAM GATE for drums!

The PERFECT gate?! It just might be…

Drums are every mixer’s worst enemy and best friend – they’re the foundation of the mix, but can also be incredibly difficult to work with because it’s really like mixing a dozen or more instruments in one, with each piece of the kit and each mic presenting its own challenges.

The key is to have total and absolute control over every single note of your drum tracks to bring out the best of a great performance, or address problem parts of a performance that isn’t so great.

Here’s how our friend Andrew Wade does it in this gamechanging clip from his recent Nail The Mix session where he walks you through his “dream gate:”

Mixing metal drums: Andrew Wade’s legendary “DREAM GATE”!

Learn Andrew Wade’s trademark process for drum editing that will turn almost any drum track into the raw materials for a great drum mix! This method is done in Pro Tools using a combination of Beat Detective, AudioSuite to normalize each hit, and editing the velocities to be consistent, using the multi-track session for “Three 6” by Attila.

Boom! There you go – Andrew’s top secret, ridiculously powerful process for turning almost any set of drum tracks into the raw materials for a great mix. You’re welcome 🙂

If you’re dying for more of Andrew’s knowledge bombs, you’re in luck! You can get instant access to these multi-tracks AND the full, 6+ hour living mixing session right here.

Nail The MixNail The Mix is our online mixing school that gives you REAL multi-tracks from REAL bands, plus a mixing class from the producer who recorded it. Past guests include Periphery, Gojira, Meshuggah, Machine Head, A Day To Remember and Bring Me The Horizon. Join now for instant access!

How much do you know about BEARING EDGES??

Most people barely think about them!

When it comes to drum sounds, there is one man we reach out to when we have questions: Matt Brown (aka Professor Drum). He’s been our go-to drum tech on countless productions, and this man understands drums on a level that you’ll have to see to believe. He’s forgotten more about drums than 99.9% of us will ever learn in our lives!

And today, Eyal Levi sits down with him to talk about the huge (but poorly understood) impact that bearing edges have on drum sound.

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We love Matt so much that we’ve roped him into creating the world’s most advanced, in-depth, and scientific drum production course: Ultimate Drum Production. The course launches soon, but in the meantime you can get a sneak preview of the kind of stuff he’ll be covering in this episode of Ask Professor Drum– get comfortable, because you’re gonna want to take a lot of notes on this one 😉

▶ Get more info on Matt’s Ultimate Drum Production course here, including access to special pre-order pricing!

Nail The MixNail The Mix is our online mixing school that gives you REAL multi-tracks from REAL bands, plus a mixing class from the producer who recorded it. Past guests include Periphery, Gojira, Meshuggah, Machine Head, A Day To Remember and State Champs. Join now for instant access!

Everything you need to know about drum heads!

The biggest factor in drum sound??

When it comes to drum sounds, there is one man we reach out to when we have questions: Matt Brown (aka Professor Drum). He’s been our go-to drum tech on countless productions, and this man understands drums on a level that you’ll have to see to believe. He’s forgotten more about drums than 99.9% of us will ever learn in our lives!

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We love Matt so much that we’ve roped him into creating the world’s most advanced, in-depth, and scientific drum production course: Ultimate Drum Production. The course launches soon, but in the meantime you can get a sneak preview of the kind of stuff he’ll be covering in this episode of Ask Professor Drum– get comfortable, because you’re gonna want to take a lot of notes on this one 😉

▶ Get more info on Matt’s Ultimate Drum Production course here, including access to special pre-order pricing!

Nail The MixNail The Mix is our online mixing school that gives you REAL multi-tracks from REAL bands, plus a mixing class from the producer who recorded it. Past guests include Periphery, Gojira, Meshuggah, Machine Head, A Day To Remember and State Champs. Join now for instant access!

Ask Prof. Drum: The Building Blocks Of Drum Sound

Learn the science of drum sound!

When it comes to drum sounds, there is one man we reach out to when we have questions: Matt Brown (aka Professor Drum). He’s been our go-to drum tech on countless productions, and this man understands drums on a level that you’ll have to see to believe. He’s forgotten more about drums than 99.9% of us will ever learn in our lives!

Ask Prof. Drum | Episode 1 | Building Blocks Of Drum Sound | w/ Matt Brown

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We love Matt so much that we’ve roped him into creating the world’s most advanced, in-depth, and scientific drum production course: Ultimate Drum Production. The course launches soon, but in the meantime you can get a sneak preview of the kind of stuff he’ll be covering in this episode of Ask Professor Drum– get comfortable, because you’re gonna want to take a lot of notes on this one 😉

▶ Get more info on Matt’s Ultimate Drum Production course here, including access to special pre-order pricing!

Nail The MixNail The Mix is our online mixing school that gives you REAL multi-tracks from REAL bands, plus a mixing class from the producer who recorded it. Past guests include Periphery, Gojira, Meshuggah, Machine Head, A Day To Remember and State Champs. Join now for instant access!

Mixing one of the best drummers in metal [ft August Burns Red]

This man is a straight up BEAST!

Shells, rooms, mics, heads… all of that stuff definitely matters, but when it comes to drum sounds, the biggest factor is and always will be one thing: the player. There’s simply no substitute for a great player laying down a great performance – all the samples and editing in the world can’t replicate it!

I’m not gonna say that a session like this mixes itself, because that it’s true, but it DOES change your job as a mixer. Instead of being a turd-polisher who spends a huge chunk of your time and energy on cleanup, editing, samples, and the usual workarounds that we use to make the most of a subpar performance, you’re spending your time on CREATIVE DECISIONS – on taking something that’s already awesome and bringing out the best of it to turn it from good to great.

Mixing metal drums ft/ Matt Greiner of AUGUST BURNS RED + Carson Slovak

Mixing metal drums is a lot of fun, especially when you are working with tracks from Matt Greiner of August Burns Red — one of the very best drummers in metal! Aside from getting great source tones, the key to getting powerful, punchy, modern metal drum sounds is in making the RIGHT mix moves – not piling on plugin after plugin.

And AUGUST BURNS RED’s Matt Greiner is without a doubt one of the best in the business – this man hits HARD, with the kind of fury few drummers can bring, and all with the kind of tight, super clean performances that sound better than most people’s edited tracks. See for yourself in this clip from Nail The Mix with Carson Slovak and Grant Mcfarland…

Anyhow – my point here is not to fangirl over Matt, the point is that I want you to understand a) how critical the player is in drum sound, and b) to underscore the thing we’ve said so many times, which is to GET IT RIGHT AT THE SOURCE.

Of course you should feel free to use samples, editing, and whatever other tricks you have in your arsenal, but never try to fix it in the mix — because the truth is that just doesn’t cut it when you want to deliver a truly world-class mix!

Nail The MixNail The Mix is our online mixing school that gives you REAL multi-tracks from REAL bands, plus a mixing class from the producer who recorded it. Past guests include Periphery, Gojira, Meshuggah, Machine Head, A Day To Remember and State Champs. Join now for instant access!