LOGIC PRO: How to get a decent drum sound Step by Step tutorial! PART 1

[hagamankega]

try get some sleep before do your tutorial ….yo sound so tired and restless,,pls make you talk back audio clear too…

thnz

[waynefoo1]

wtf?? sounds awful is this pro tools? lol. what kind of mics did he use?

[Meteotrance]

important thing is, to using noise gate if you want to isolate just the sound of bass drum and snare without the overhead bleeding. phase reverse can help to but at first the mic position must be more important and a good analog preamp with just a soft compression can help, the multiband are good sometimes for the mix of the complete dynamic mic section set.

But don't used it on the overhead cause it's too loud and too harsh.

[hammersfan09]

drums sounds crap after you have messed with them

[romodrummerjz]

@hammersfan09 i have improved my sound since this video was uploaded... calm down

[studiofive17]

Keep in mind Garbage in-Garbage out. You should get the drums sounding great from the top of yourt sig-chain to the cpu before mxing. Clipping is your enemy, it kills mixes! Also, Logic is a DAW that has little headroom. DAWs like Nuendo and Pro Tools can take loud signals. Just track softer without taking tone out of it. Good luck in the future man.

[OmnishowOfficial]

Also....when you duplicate your kick drum and then reverse the polarity of it, you phase cancel a bunch of frequencies that's making your kick drum sound hollow...it might be the sound you're going for, but with the bleed you seem to be getting as well, you're bound to run into phase problems involving the other kit pieces as well...just a note of course, the great thing about recording is there aren't really any rules haha...otherwise good job

[OmnishowOfficial]

Watch you're not increasing the volume too much with the EQ...the reason there's a gain section on the EQ and Compressor plugs is to bring it back to the level the track was originally at...your kick drum is peaking quite a bit...a good practice is to mix the raw tracks, then when you add the plugs adjust the gain so you're affecting the sound but not the volume, so its already mostly mixed still (obviously minor adjustments from this stage anyway).

[hungrymusack]

I would be careful with boosting your lows that much....you can quickly eat up that part of the audio spectrum. One "trick" I do is delete all the audio from my tom tracks except for the actual hits and a little bit after to keep the tail. Or, you could copy each track, nudge the copied track forward a bit and use a noise gate in side chain mode with its respective track. Mute the copied track of course. This helps clean up the drums, if needed. Replacement/enhancement is cool 2. Good luck!