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Originally Posted by musicman691
I do pretty much what Dave does except for two things:
I generally don't detune the drums
Instead of a room reverb I'll use a plate of some type
btw I use BFD3
My mantra for vi drums has always been to treat them as I would a real physical drum kit - except I don't have to pay the drummer  |
Out of curiousity, was there a big reason for going with BFD3 over some of the others, or just a random landing spot?
Treating like I would as if they were tracks from a real drummer is what I try to do, too. However, I often get exported tracks that resemble ones that have had another mix engineer heavily treat as part of a rough-mix before sending it off to a mix engineer. Alternatively, I'll get into some sort of patch that sends some out of the ordinary information to the various output channels. eg - a recent effort had minimal information in the kick and snare tracks with tons of information in the OH and Ambient mics. The overall sound was a nice, big kick and snare that did not have enough information in the kick and snare tracks to even send to my own room or reverb plug. Oddities like this are not rare.
Another thing that isn't rare is finding an out of phase track, or having the original Mono track's panning not transfer all that well to the mandatory built-in mixers Stereo output. Makes that delay between the close snare and the rest of the signal in the OH sound very strange on many fronts.
I guess in some aspects the mixing is very real. Something is gonna have to happen - reality based or not.
