How to Mix LIVE Snare Drum | Gate, EQ, Compression, Parallel #drums #snaredrum

Snare drum is one of the most important inputs to get right, and sometimes it can also be one of the hardest. In this quick tutorial I show you how to use gate, EQ, compression, and parallel processes to get a great snare drum sound live!

In this video I used a Digico SD12, however this process can be done basically any DAW or live console.

Examples:
DAW: ProTools, Logic, Studio One, Ableton, etc.
Consoles: Behringer X32/M32, Allen & Heath SQ5, Yamaha CL5/Rivage, AVID S6L, SSL, Digico, etc.

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00:00 Intro
00:55 Snare Top
02:05 Snare Bottom
03:16 Snare Fat (HUGE TRICK)
04:03 All 3 together

[richardgore]

Thank you for explaining parallel processing. I had heard of it, but it sounded very exotic. Now that I have a basic understanding of it, I can experiment with instruments that I think need help in my live mix.

[SimpleMusician]

Hey Andrew! Please keep making more content on live mixing. I'll be mixing on our church this Sunday.
I just had a crash course on board mixing and instantly be operating Digico SD9 with Full band, 15 RF, with full orchestra. Wish me luck! 😂😂

[mauricioc]

The compressors plugins. How are those connected to console? Or is that daw?

[deanb]

Can you do a video on what you do with the whole kit on the SD12?

[obie_silva]

Andrew, thanks for all your knowledge. We have the Digico SD 10 at our church … We have one console for in-house and the same one is used for our live stream. We have everything post … Things are starting to take shape however, the one thing I’m struggling with is getting our live stream to sound LOUD with out over limiting or compressing. We have a dedicated stream bus and when I listen on the headphones is sounds good but when we go to the car or tv it sound softer and not as live as it does in house. Do you have any videos covering this type of case? Or can you point me on the right direction? We are using waves as well.

[airhosa]

"You can do this on any console".... proceeds to open up waves😏

[calvingudu]

Awesome process. The song is very together. Where can I hear it along with other mixes you have done.
BTW can you do similar tutorial for other pieces ie kick, toms etc.

Thanks a mill.

[thomasoosthuizen]

Hey Andrew! Cool Video, I've always loved the double patching function on Digico. Would love to hear your comments on delaying the top and bottom Snare mics to be aligned, I recently did this and I enjoyed the result.

[samgonza]

Question. This is all translating very well to the video. But your processing is for the video? Are the settings for the sanctuary different and is it drastically different?

[bernardbiju]

Can you give us a video on how you eq you master?

[cristianvillarreal]

Hi andrew on my church we just have a studio live from presonus the first version and i don’t know how to do parallel compresion with it i dont know how you send the snare signal to 3 channels at the same time

[MrRoberacer]

So with drums I treat the kit like it is one instrument. I find that trying to disect it only ends up with it sounding unnatural and it just never sits in the mix well. Many studio engineers talk about the sound of the drums are all overheads. My overheads are positioned to capture the kit, not just the cymbals and the individual drum mics are really just there to give them some beef. Even then the mics on the drums are not too close. For me it is all about capturing what they are not trying to make a new sound.

[redlinelive]

160hz just kills snares, makes them hard to cut through