Gates are often included in channel strip plugins, like the Scheps Omni Channel, or in the SSL E-Channel and G-Channel plugins. These help immensely in getting clean kick and snare sounds, and being able to manipulate them freely without much interference from neighboring drums and cymbals.Īdding a gate cleans up the sound by bringing the level down to zero until it becomes loud enough to cross the threshold, thus opening the gate and allowing the audio to pass. To regain maximum control over each individual sound, engineers use gates and expanders. If you’re working with recorded drums, you’re almost certainly going to have drum bleed - where the sound of the other drums “bleed” through to nearby mics. Experiment with which method works best for your workflow. Either is fine, just be aware that each method sounds different. Some engineers like to apply dynamics processing before equalization, while others like to apply it afterwards. He’ll start with aligning the overhead mics to one another, and then the pair of overheads to the snare: In this video, hear mixer Michael White tighten up the sound by aligning his drum tracks with InPhase. To correct this, it is customary to align overheads and other distance mics to the snare, to get the overall kit's sound as clean as it can be. When listening to all mic channels together, they will play back some phase variance and ‘blurriness’ in the sound. Since all channels are recorded and played back simultaneously, but at varying distances from the snare, the raw tracks will be made up of several captures of the snare at cascaded times and distances. The overheads, and any room mics spaced farther away from the kit, will capture the sound at a small, but significant delay in time.
#CUBASE 4 DRUM CRACK#
As the sound moves outward with each crack of the snare (often the loudest and most distinct part of the kit), the close mic at the snare's position will be the first to capture the sound. To understand why phase incoherence is so common with drums, think of the physical distances between pieces of the drum kit and the microphones used to capture it. When tracks are out of phase, it may cause phase cancellation, which causes certain frequencies to sound unbalanced or disappear altogether. The fine detail of getting pitches in sync with the melodic elements of the track can go a very long way in tightening up the overall sound.Īfter adjusting the tuning of your drums, it’s important to make sure the phase relationship between the various tracks is intact. Some players and producers even tune them to voice a chord within the song. For instance, with 3 toms it’s common to tune them to perfect fourth intervals, or sometimes major third intervals. The fewer toms, the larger the intervals. Toms are typically tuned to different intervals within a key, depending on how many drums you have. When possible, try to tune kick and snare drums to the root note or the fifth in the key of the song. The Torque plugin is specifically designed to alter the root note of a drum sound. Then, finalize your drum mix with parallel compression, and add depth and dimension with reverb.Īlthough drums aren’t intrinsically melodic instruments, they do exert a pitch, and it's important to make sure that they are in tune.
#CUBASE 4 DRUM HOW TO#
Learn how to mix drums from start to finish, from setting compression and EQ to correcting phase problems and manipulating transients.
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