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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!

Kurt Ballou dialing in drum samples on Converge “I Can Tell You About Pain”

Kurt Ballou shows how he chooses, mixes and fine-tunes the drum samples from his signature Roomsound library in “I Can Tell You About Pain” by Converge.

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Kurt Ballou’s guitar tones on “I Can Tell You About Pain”!

So. Many. Mics.

Kurt Ballou explains his guitar tones including the guitar amps, cabs, pickups and more on “I Can Tell You About Pain” by Converge in this clip from his August 2018 Nail The Mix!

Kurt Ballou’s guitar tones on Converge “I Can Tell You About Pain”

Kurt Ballou explains his guitar tones including the guitar amps, cabs, pickups and more on “I Can Tell You About Pain” by Converge!

He goes over how he blended the various tones (including a Sparrow’s Sons, a Marshall JMP and room mics), does some EQ with Fabfilter Pro Q and goes into more detail about how he dialed in the guitar tones– warning, after watching this you may feel the sudden urge to mic anything and everything around you 🙂

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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!