5 Minutes To A Better Mix II: Snare Drum Distortion - TheRecordingRevolution.com

Part 9 of 31 - In an effort to help your snare cut through the mix without boosting with EQ, consider adding harmonic content with a distortion plugin.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• mixing
• mix
• drums
• snare
• EQ
• distortion
• plugins
• harmonics
• tutorial
• tips
• recording
• home studio

[gahzeyboe]

In a few of your videos, you change the sound of a track (usually like a snare or kick or something) for a specific part, because the song's dynamics changed (like it got louder during the chorus or something), and you want to cut through the mix. My question is, doesn't changing the track for a specific part mess up the track for the rest of the song, because now it's too loud or bright or whatever it is? Do you use automation for the effect in the specific part?

[recordingrevolution]

@gahzeyboe Yeah, you would simply automate the plugin if you don't need it for the whole mix.

[TyranusForte]

seriously... you only produce christ rock don't you?

[Dandroid5000]

@TyranusForte More than you'll ever produce with your sorry shitstain of a life.....

[recordingrevolution]

@Dandroid5000 Hey man, please watch the language. Unnecessary

[recordingrevolution]

@TyranusForte It's mostly what I produce these days, yes.

[Buhzie15]

I think the main reason you can hear the snare better after the plugin is the increase in volume. Watch the faders after you enable the plugin. It would be more telling if we could hear differences between bypassed effects at the same gain structures.

[therealneon]

BUM BUM KHA! BUM BUM KHA!

[casperfren]

Bit-reducer is another good tool. :)

[eRealist]

I wouldn't want to discourage anyone from using distortion on their snare, harmonics are a great thing to take advantage of. But this example is fooling your ear, the horrible plugin is adding about 3db to the signal. The snare is poking out more from the db fluctuation than it is the distortion in this example. Again, good tip bad execution.

[Addbeatzz]

If I could I would double like it :-)

[bubnjarovski]

Decapitator;)

[TyranusForte]

@Dandroid5000 not true dan. I am very happy with who I am. it may be a shitstain. but I'm not sorry. =)

[FOR7YON3]

Question : what is the best way to EQ a ''one track drum'' track? (it's in wave all mixed) thx!