Topic: Drums weak and too quiet

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Replied January 4, 2018 at 23:26 #2001672

Juicy
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Im sure theirs a heap of low end around 20 to 80 hz on those lead guitar parts that not really audible but taking up some headroom also don’t waste time on a mastering engineer yet but get your mixes better in the first place, its not too far off but your kinda suffering from “gtr mix” dude at the moment.
Plz buy a good brick wall limiter for the drums and you should be where you wanna be. I have quite a few but the best value and cleanest i found (and won’t mix without )
was Wave Arts > Final Plug. Strap that on your drum buss and breathe a huge relief. You can get them to sit perfectly at – 0.1 all day if you want them too.
I then use it again on the Master bus and we are mastered to go.
Trust me thats what will bring them right up in the zone you want.

Replied January 4, 2018 at 23:30 #2001673

onewayout_1
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Very good Advice! Cut those guitars @ 80 hz and below and you willl hear much more the thickness and presence of the drums!!

Replied January 4, 2018 at 23:34 #2001674

ZebulaJams
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I actually cut all of my guitars from ~100-below. I’ll check out that limiter (or something of the sort) and report back.

Replied January 6, 2018 at 00:13 #2001700

Juicy
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@ZebulaJams said:
I actually cut all of my guitars from ~100-below. I’ll check out that limiter (or something of the sort) and report back.

Glad to hear, so then needs normal eq after cut/filtering, some lead Gtrs (also Rhythm) can need some scooping up to 200 or more and can still be phat. You got 3 gtrs going at least right ?
Any how sounds like you have an idea of what your doing if you get that super accurate limiter you won’t need to sit the drums down -10 which should give you what you want.
Makes a big difference which one you get as some really muck up the low end and sound dull or mushy i had a generous budget at the time and got that cheaper one and one Oxford limiter too but the Final plug just a big clean result and Low cpu and price was the winner of a shootout of about 10 i tried at the time .ymmv.
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