Drum Clean up Part 2 - RecordBetterAudio.com

[theunwrittenlaws]

thats a horrible drum mix

[DJSoulVOX]

Still don't think the drums sound very good. Actually, I think it's the fact that the drums them selves aren't very good sounding. Buy new heads and O rings. You'd be surprised how much better it'll sound.

[Musicosm]

The gate on the bottom snare mic is set too high. And the volume is too loud. Listen to when he does a fast snare fill. Nothing but bottom snare mic.

[killitb]

Great instructions.

[BillyTalentRocks2010]

Hey, how do you get each drum to appear individually when you put it into your computer? Is there an interface you need?

[recordbetteraudio]

If you have an interface that has 8 inputs then you can record 8 different tracks at the same time.

[BillyTalentRocks2010]

Are those expensive?

[slayer666metallica]

Hey, i have a setup like this. The one problem i'm running into is signal bleed when recording.

How does one go about controlling signal bleed and isolating each drum to one mic?

Or is there no such thing as true isolation?

[bubnjarovski]

what i need mixer, audio card and mics??

[jorge616]

Can you hook up a mixer to an Mbox 2 and record 8 individual tracks in pro tools at the same time of course???? help please

[recordbetteraudio]

No sorry, first the mixer would have to have 8 out puts and the the mbox would have to have 8 inputs. Each input on the mbox has a A to D card (Audio to digital) how many cards (or processors) there is, is how many channels you can record. Which mbox do you have?

[jorge616]

I have the Mbox 2. but what if i get a mixer that has usb connection then could i do it???????

[Irish614]

you have to assign them to busses in your audio software then create audio tracks and rename them.

[openwindowrecords]

Sounds really good actually. Do you have any more info on what kind of a room you recorded in? And with which microphones?

[BillyTalentRocks2010]

There's another video with that

[userzotob]

eso es una pobre receta general.

[drumphenom11]

I didn't hear much difference between the before and after. As others have said, you have a great raw recording and i don't see why you would need to do much to it. The only things i would do is cut the tom tracks like you did, roll of the low end on the hihat and snare tracks and add some bottom to the kick, but NOT at 60-120 hz. I dont know why so many engineers boost that area but the real good bottom is usually down around 40-60 hz.

[erichitz79]

Any thing below 100 Hz you wont hear on normal speakers (i.e car, boom box, clock radio) 40-60 bottom will mud up the drums. also you should be using the kick the accent the bass line. bass has the bottom. Kick tightens the low bass up. And one other thing. All he did was EQ and maybe adjust the levels. no comp, verb, any other efectxs

[olloyd1985]

I agree, the title of the video isn't very good. It should be "EQing drums"

Also, it's not good practice to EQ while you've soloing tracks

[dkrumrie123]

thank you I agree, the whole point of mixing is making everything sound good TOGETHER not by itself

[vincentjdrummer]

Still the best starting point is to get all the individual tracks sound good. It will save you much more trouble, cause when you mix it hearing it all at the same time it's a lot harder to know what's happening where frequency wise. As far as I've experienced the overall picture will sound great too when you get all the tracks right and it'll need minimal tweaking

[PocketDrummer]

I want to say it's a tad cleaner, and the cymbals sound a tad crisper. Placebo effect?

[AndyVerok]

i can hear not really much of a difference to be honest, i think your raw recording sounds really great. We recorded a few months ago some stuff and it sound terrible raw, but i tried to clear it up with just gating and it came out pretty good, i will try eqing some, it should do the job. thanks for the vid!

[yutuubfreak]

hey, what program do u use to record. can u use it for mac, and is it simple?

[trombonebassguitar]

he's using cubase 4

[Holdurfire]

not a bad sound, a great place to start from in my opinion.

that drummer needs to take off the deadining though. LET EM' SING!!

[billygimp]

its probably the quality the audio when it degrades being converted to a smaller file on youtube, and I guess its something rather subjective to each his or her own but something I find often is how sparkly some home mixAE's make their cymbals which often isn't a good thing all the time as it can take out the grit and character. EQ the crap out of jazz drummers kit and he'll kill you, they rig their stuff up for everything to be heard.. if they're good that is. anyway, over and out.

[bassist1627]

I'm surprised you didn't cut the mids out of the toms, but I do like how you hi cut a lot of stuff. Very well done.

[billygimp]

I suggest you do your homework on toms dude.

[recordbetteraudio]

This video is mainly a starting point when I start mixing. I always start taking off as much as I can, then add as much as I can back when I have more then just bed tracks to work with. C ya

[recordbetteraudio]

Let me know when your video's are done

New Stereo Audio Test May 2007 <-- do a search for that video

[girotube]

MAN! these videos are in stereo! how did that happened?? Will upload my video again hahaha!

I will upgrade to CUBASE 4 soon! Still using SX3.1.

[recordbetteraudio]

There is a video on YouTube about "how to make stereo video's. You can get a free program, then upload the video as a raw .flv file. Then it will be stereo.

[girotube]

haahaha awesome! can you direct me to that video if is not to much trouble ...?? thanx

Man let me tell you Thanx for doing these videos!

I was gonna do some about drum rec and eq bla, bla etc etc but you have done a great job so there is no reason for me to do them! But I will do one about tuning and drum heads...

[wma200]

don'T use warez :P

[girotube]

Buy your software :p

[SITD345]

Great but whats the name of the programm?

[recordbetteraudio]

I use Cubase 4. It's a little on the expensive side, but it has alot of neat features

[Llarion]

Terrific stuff. Much appreciated!!

[RipcurlNg]

awesome video, i'm definetly using this

[Slaynyc]

Great vids thanks