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 …
Unboxing Periphery “Prayer Position” raw multi-tracks
These drums!!! Eyal Levi takes you on a guided tour of the raw multi-tracks for “Prayer Position” by Periphery, as seen in Nolly’s Nail The Mix from 2016. Here’s a few things to note as you watch the unboxing: Some truly sublime drum tracks courtesy of Matt Halpern. And note that (as far as we can recall) no drum samples …
Unboxing Gemini Syndrome “Anonymous” raw multi-tracks
165 tracks?! Oh yeah!! This month on Nail The Mix we’ve got Kane Churko mixing “Anonymous” by Gemini Syndrome— you know him for his work with bands like Papa Roach, In This Moment and Five Finger Death Punch among many others. And holy crap, this is a big session!! It’s got well over 150 tracks (and if you think that’s excessive, …
Massive Radio Rock Leads! w/ Bullet For My Valentine + Carl Bown
So simple, yet so NOT simple! Carl Bown is known for being an incredibly meticulous engineer who goes to whatever lengths it takes to get it right at the source- spending days and days getting the tone during tracking rather than shrugging and deciding to fix it in the mix. But his maniacal attention to detail doesn’t stop there… even …
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 …