Signal pushing speakers too hard?

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by tommytime555

Thanks Drew!

When you say "buss compressor", not totally following you.... As of right now, I don't have any compression on the drums, nor are the drums going through a buss. It's a simple .wav stereo mix I dropped into my session/track and it's clean, there are no effects, compression or patches on this track....... Question - is there a possibility the guys that recorded/exported this drum track put too much compression on kick and it's causing my whole mix to throb?

Just for reference, here is the drum track (stereo): https://www.dropbox.com/s/v4540xdrq2...0Dust.wav?dl=0

Thanks so much!

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What you have there, are just bad sounding drums, the kick anyway. The kick is distorted in some way. Its bottom end is messed up. You can certainly hear, but also see it in the waveform. It's also got some excessive subs going on.

[tommytime555]

Awesome Darryl -- thank you.

Could I possibly just have you give it a quick listen? Maybe it is indeed just my car speakers but I've never really noticed this happening with other music I listen to (in the car).

The ending (where the distorted guitars come in) is where it starts pumping.. I'm also attaching a screenshot of my mix.

No pressure... I really appreciate your time.

SONG: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lsnc0s5fnp...rdust.mp3?dl=0
MIX SCREEN: https://www.dropbox.com/s/53734vpmgi1a8rm/mix.jpg?dl=0

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[Drew Mazurek]

try this.

http://drewmazurek.com/Sites/filechute/DUC-drums.zip

[tommytime555]

@ Drew -

Crap! I had these drums recorded by a session drummer... I suppose I should go back and either ask for the individual (raw) drum tracks? Or perhaps the only way to fix this is to have them do a complete re-take? Shoot.

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[tommytime555]

@Drew -- dying to know what you did? Were you able to correct the distorted kick?

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by tommytime555

@Drew -- dying to know what you did? Were you able to correct the distorted kick?

Correct? no, deal with? yes.

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by tommytime555

.. I suppose I should go back and either ask for the individual (raw) drum tracks?

I'd want these anyway.

[Darryl Ramm]

yes go back to get the raw recordings. Even if they have problems you may learn a lot trying to fix the mix.

[tommytime555]

@Darryl -

Got it! I'll go grab those now..

I really appreciate the suggestions!

[tommytime555]

So my options are below... I suppose I should get the un-processed tracks but I don't know the first thing about "optimizing" raw drum tracks, so I'm not sure it's even worth the extra $50.... I wonder if I'd have luck getting the individual "processed" tracks?

I guess it's time to breakout some books. :|

Purchase Options:
- Stereo Mix + Unprocessed Source Tracks ($45)
- Stereo Mix + Processed Source Tracks ($99)
- Stereo Mix + Processed and Unprocessed tracks ($99)



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