Mixing Electronic Drums in Logic
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A little look at how I mix kick and snare drums. Although this just covers the basics, I rambled a bit in this one so it’s 10 mins long. Sorry ’bout that, but hope you find it useful anyway. Video licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.
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great job man
keep it up!
I Love BEEF!:)
good stuff, ever try Logic’s SubBass under Specialty for kicks? can also add that low end beef or punch
Cheers for the vids mate. Really good and useful. Keep them coming! Dave, if you have a Mac i would heavily recommend you moving to Logic for the reasons it is such good software and runs so smoothly on mac as it was designed for the platform!
really like your videos, i try to make the same sort of music, more sort of french touch sort of style though, but i love what you do.
i use cubase 5, and i’ve never used logic pro, is it alot better? what do you think?
thanks,
dave
Sweet! This answers a lot of questions for me. Now I gots the punch baby!
Excellent, very clear. Would like to hear some of your tunes.
I like your advice over frequency range and an individual’s taste. I get worried about frequencies and need to remember to go by ears mainly. Thanks
why put reverb on send instead of bus? and whats that lovely little sound between 7:08 and 7:09?
cheers
@soundsLogical good work mate on the video, hope to see more tutorials from you in the near future! thanks!
@pAAnda12music nobody’s being rude to you, show soundsLogical some respect. He’s doing all of us a favour here teaching us, you ungrateful little shit
No, I realise that, hence I said “I don’t mean to be rude”. Sigh.
I don’t mean to be rude, but er… try searching google for drum samples.
No thank you for giving us all this help! xD
There aren’t any “dubstep plugins”. You can make dubstep with any synthesizer, plugins etc. You just have to be creative. If you own Logic you have everything you need to make good music, except maybe you could with some extra drum samples.
I bought it. Search google for Camel Audio.
No probs. I’m only a bloke though.Ha. I also use separate Kick/ Snare/ Hi Hat as different lanes on the arrange using ‘New Track with same channel assignment’ etc. This saves using multiple instances of Ultrabeat. Thanks again for the sound tips. Marmite on toast rather than a beer : )
A beer for this man! Woman? Person! That’s a really handy tip, I like to keep my mixer tidy and those redundant stereo tracks are a pain. Cheers!
Thanks. Always great tuts.Also…You can just press the ‘ + ‘ at the left of the mixer , above the meter, to bring in a mono output, which you assign in the same way as when getting new tracks set up , instead of having to open so many stereo outputs. The ‘ +’ on the parent Ultrabeat is for stereo output
No, no real advantage I suppose, except ease of programming drums. It also keeps your arrange page neat, but that’s only really a concern for OCDers like me
Is there any advantage over step inputting the drum pattern into Ultrabeat with the multioutputs like you did, over actually using a different channel for each element? I prefer to play my drums on pads, so have a channel for the kick, channel for the snare etc. This is just personal preference or am i losing out on anything?
That depends. Some producers (often of bass heavy genres) like their kicks to sit above the bass in the frequency range, some prefer below. If you’re having trouble with these two interacting, search youtube for tutorials on “Sidechaining” the kick and bass. There’s loads of them.
In the end, the use of all these techniques come down to taste and the feel of the individual track. There’s no single “right” way to do anything.
Nice tutorial, just wondering if you keep almost all of the low frequency of your kick does that not interfere with the low frequency of the bass? because I’ve heard other producers cut all most all of the bass up to about 80hz from their kicks. how do you get around the interference, if there is any, cheers man keep up the tutorials their grear!
The only difference is that if you put the reverb on a bus, you can send multiple sounds to the same reverb unit. Since Space Designer is so resource-hungry, that’s quite handy cos you don’t want more than a few Space Designers on one project – unless you have a beast of a computer
another great informative video, thanks!! keep them coming!
I was just wondering what the difference is if the reverb is on sends or the channel?