You "being a drummer making youtube videos" are far more helping to me, a starting mixing engineer, than a pro mix engineer. Your series is invaluable, thanks!
I really love the concept of listening for where the pieces are already guiding you're ear in the stereo balance. And then panning what had already been hinted through the overheads. I think you are just confirming where they really want to be in the mix in a real natural way. Very cool idea
Hey Austin, i love your content. It´s so good to have someone like you in this fast jungle of short videos and clickbaits, always high quality content, well-thought, originally and helpful. Your personal style, speech and kind of relaxed mood is fantastic and stands out. Keep it up, i really hope you are fine and hope to meet you some day in person. Big drummer hug from Germany, Jochen 😉🥁 P.S.: You were also a part of my starting process on youtube. One of my first video as a teacher was a german version of your Simon Phillips Polymetric Groove. Thanks for that inspiration!
Yep, so glad I stumbled upon this channel. I don't have the patience to sit down and work this stuff out for myself, so it feels like cheating, watching his videos.
Dave Weckl has it right. Mix your own drums is the way to go, especially for live performances. Side note here - Always bring good sounding drums to the mics & don't expect to bring a bad sounding kit to the mics and hope for some engineering magic.
Hi Austin, I really enjoyed watching your series "How to Mix Drums". I remember that you said in one of your videos that you switched from Cubase to Logic. Would you mind sharing why you made that switch?
great video! what i noticed is, that you put the sounds where they are when you're behind the drum-kit. My drum teacher told me to do it the opposite way, so you get more of a concert scenario, in which you are watching the band (aka you're on the opposite side of the drum kit) of course everyone does it different, i just noticed and thought it's interesting ^^
thanks for the video. Is it just me or are the drums panned from the player's view (behind the set), but not the listener's view (in front of the set)?
Great videos, thanks for the tips - question though: I know you started with the overheads and used your ear to balance the kit, but how did you get to the conclusion to pan the floor tom to plus 30 when the rack tom was only at -10?
This might just be my weird preference, but I've always liked panning the kick a little to the left & snare a little to the right. Just the ear test. The opposite (to me) would be like parting your hair in the wrong direction. When people are facing you, they should see it going left to right, which means right to left in the mirror. LOL! I know, weird analogy. 😎
Awesome video Austin, can you please do a video from mixing board to final mix. After 40 years of playing i want ti get into this stuff. But i don't even know where to start. So.......what mixing board are you using? Thanks
Good introduction to levels balancing, but it'd be helpful to speak to metering and if/why you are deliberately targeting a certain peak db level for each track and the master.
If I might offer a suggestion, you want to keep your kick and snare at zero. Also you might try reordering your tracks as such Kick Snare top Snare bottom Hi-hat Rack 1 Floor Overhead right Overhead left Hope this helps
do you have any shortcuts for getting the initial levels on the hardware interface? It seems like every time I record I have to spend a significant amount of time adjusting levels on the interface so they aren't clipping. thanks
+antkn33 Basically I just go through each drum and hit it hard and adjust the gain until its at a nice level. Since my setup never really changes, I don't really have to do that anymore. I can just turn everything on and sit down and play.
Thank you very much for your video...maybe I'm asking a stupid question, but what exactly are OH L and OH R tracks? and what about crashes and hit hat?
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I'm not even kidding, the ad I got before this video started said "You're wasting your time learning mix engineering online" XD!
+ComedyShortsGay lolz
That dude is a fuckin clown honestly. Hate seeing his ads lol
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Yeah, but that's not a coincidence. RUclips _chooses_ what ads to show you depending on what videos you regularly watch or are currently watching.
When his "sounds bad" is better than my raw recording 🤷🏻♂️
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@@rec6025 no
dang right!
Lol same
You "being a drummer making youtube videos" are far more helping to me, a starting mixing engineer, than a pro mix engineer. Your series is invaluable, thanks!
I really love the concept of listening for where the pieces are already guiding you're ear in the stereo balance. And then panning what had already been hinted through the overheads. I think you are just confirming where they really want to be in the mix in a real natural way. Very cool idea
good to see a drummer's perspective on drum processing
I watched your videos on mixing drums and my recordings have sounded 10 times better because I applied some of your methods!! Thank you!!
Awesome, that’s great to hear :)
Hey Austin, i love your content. It´s so good to have someone like you in this fast jungle of short videos and clickbaits, always high quality content, well-thought, originally and helpful. Your personal style, speech and kind of relaxed mood is fantastic and stands out. Keep it up, i really hope you are fine and hope to meet you some day in person. Big drummer hug from Germany, Jochen 😉🥁
P.S.: You were also a part of my starting process on youtube. One of my first video as a teacher was a german version of your Simon Phillips Polymetric Groove. Thanks for that inspiration!
All of the recording drums videos of yours are exactly what a guy like me needs. Love em. Thanks so much for doing them!
Same, great videos!
Yep, so glad I stumbled upon this channel. I don't have the patience to sit down and work this stuff out for myself, so it feels like cheating, watching his videos.
for sure, glad you got something out of them!
Does that coffee he's swinging around make anyone else nervous?? o.o HAHAHA. Solid Video, Brotha!
yes, caught the attention. :)
hahaha, didn't notice until I saw this comment
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Thank You! It's hard to find well explained tutorials like this. :)
Thank you for emphasizing you take other parts of the drums and panning far left or far right
kicks always in mono. u can get inconsistence in the low end if your kick is panned more to the right or left
snares too
im so late to your channel but the extra info is so vital bless you man !
Dave Weckl has it right. Mix your own drums is the way to go, especially for live performances. Side note here - Always bring good sounding drums to the mics & don't expect to bring a bad sounding kit to the mics and hope for some engineering magic.
cheers man, well explained just what i was looking for! don't need no recording revolution!
Austin! You're the man!! This is so helpful
Your videos have been a great help, thank you.
I really enjoy your videos. Thanks !
very helpful !!
Hi Austin, I really enjoyed watching your series "How to Mix Drums". I remember that you said in one of your videos that you switched from Cubase to Logic. Would you mind sharing why you made that switch?
great video! what i noticed is, that you put the sounds where they are when you're behind the drum-kit. My drum teacher told me to do it the opposite way, so you get more of a concert scenario, in which you are watching the band (aka you're on the opposite side of the drum kit) of course everyone does it different, i just noticed and thought it's interesting ^^
Yea, you can either do drummers perspective or audience perspective. I usually prefer drummers perspective in most cases.
Amazing content. Keep going !
Such good content! Thanks man
thank you
thanks for the video. Is it just me or are the drums panned from the player's view (behind the set), but not the listener's view (in front of the set)?
Great videos, thanks for the tips - question though: I know you started with the overheads and used your ear to balance the kit, but how did you get to the conclusion to pan the floor tom to plus 30 when the rack tom was only at -10?
This might just be my weird preference, but I've always liked panning the kick a little to the left & snare a little to the right. Just the ear test. The opposite (to me) would be like parting your hair in the wrong direction. When people are facing you, they should see it going left to right, which means right to left in the mirror. LOL! I know, weird analogy. 😎
Thanks for these :)
no problem! :)
In what way did the first play through with no plugins sound bad? Sounded fine to me.
Awesome video Austin, can you please do a video from mixing board to final mix. After 40 years of playing i want ti get into this stuff. But i don't even know where to start. So.......what mixing board are you using? Thanks
Good introduction to levels balancing, but it'd be helpful to speak to metering and if/why you are deliberately targeting a certain peak db level for each track and the master.
I wish my mic bleed was like yours, I get too much through mine 😭
Can u Make a Template Project and have it for download?
That's not that bad for raw recordings
No doubt.I get worse.
If I might offer a suggestion, you want to keep your kick and snare at zero.
Also you might try reordering your tracks as such
Kick
Snare top
Snare bottom
Hi-hat
Rack 1
Floor
Overhead right
Overhead left
Hope this helps
nice one bud, thx
Any chance of doing a 2 mic setup mix tutorial?
stewNdrums just overheads? Just get 3 mics, 4 mics if you can. Those are the best minimal drum setups for recording by far. 2 mics is very limiting
@@ConCon4444 well at the moment I have 1 as an Overhead and 1 as a kick mic. Using the 2i2 at the moment so pretty much what I can work with.
Is that you playing live drums, or are those Logic Drummer tracks?
do you have any shortcuts for getting the initial levels on the hardware interface? It seems like every time I record I have to spend a significant amount of time adjusting levels on the interface so they aren't clipping. thanks
+antkn33 Basically I just go through each drum and hit it hard and adjust the gain until its at a nice level. Since my setup never really changes, I don't really have to do that anymore. I can just turn everything on and sit down and play.
What's drum to use ?
you can not dislike this
I don't like to use overheads. I just close mic the drums, then add a room mic. It's enough.
Should you pan drums in the drummers perspective or the audience's?
It's personal preference. You will get many arguments for either side though.
good
wait. so headphones or studio monitors?? lol
Thank you very much for your video...maybe I'm asking a stupid question, but what exactly are OH L and OH R tracks? and what about crashes and hit hat?
+Alessio D'Elia Overhead Left and Overhead Right... They pick up everything so I don't use a dedicated hihat or ride mic.
Thank you very much mate!
Hi Austin, thank for your videos, always inspiring! What do you use to connect microphones to the pc? A mixer?
Check out my series called "How To Record Drums" to see how all that works.
Thanks Austin, I didn't see that video. Again, your videos are amazing!
why do people think wider is better for drums
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