The SNARE MIXING TRICK nobody told YOU!

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Today German producer Kristian Kohle (Aborted, Powerwolf, Eskimo Callboy, Hämatom, Van Canto, Emil Bulls, Benighted) shows you how to tame a dynamic snare performance and how to bring all the ghost notes and softer hits right in front of the mix!

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Waves RVox (with a 60% discount)

Drum Leveler

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[KohleAudioKult]

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[Producelikeapro]

Amazing! Great video! Bob is THE man! Great guy and amazing Producer and Engineer! That's his son, Chris, playing Drums, incredible drummer!

[kernelxsanders]

For me, the snare bottom is essential for soft hits, that's about the main reason I even use a bottom mic at all. Also, Rvox is one of my "desert island" plugins. So simple and works on so many sources. Never tried it on the bottom mic though, I usually just automate the gate threshold. Gonna have to try this!

[michaelkeene]

Rvox obviously has basically an attack of 0.00, which doesn’t always make it practical for drums, but the rep at Waves told me a smart trick. You can kind of use Rvox to level out a drum and then pull the gate on Rvox up and it’s a pretty soft curved gate and you can compress the level and gate out some of the cymbals and stuff, THEN put a compressor with a slower attack time to get the transient you want. He specifically suggested it on toms. I’ve really come to love drumatom and Wilkinson debleeder in combination with drum leveler to get drums gated super smoothly and level. If you haven’t tried the MELDA drum leveler, I’d HIGHLY recommend that one. Their full plugin suite is pretty amazing. It really shocked me how many creative plugins they have that no one else really makes. Lots of unique stuff.

[RandyHanley]

I love your approach: Using your brains and the physics, rather than just slapping on 1 million plug-ins.

[paulferrarodrums]

Best attitude for a teacher for me, I like the swearing it makes a lot more sense and easier to understand the emotion

[pottproject]

The snare bottom also is very useful, if you don’t have a great room sound. For a big snare verb, you can put a reverb on just the bottom mic. It sounds bigger and the attack of the top mic also cuts better through the mix.

[joeyo]

This is absolutely brilliant. Been a while since an audio YouTube video has actually changed the way I’ve looked at a recording method

[alrecks]

5:30 i think i remember the cranked snare reso head from Nolly, apparently he'll tune the reso head as high as 440Hz (A4 note) because Matt Halpern is just so dynamic with his drumming.

[naicametal]

Cool video, currently I don't have a drummer anymore but shure I struggle with that in the past. Great content

[lesbuenomusic]

this is great!! Thank you for sharing this trick!

[TylerFACE]

Dude…😎 super slick trick right here. I love it.

[CrashMediaMI]

This was SO helpful dude, holy shit. I never even considered this. Thank you for making these videos man!

[cajun]

I was just struggling with this last week and getting discouraged. Long journey to a good sound. I’m enjoying all you have to share.

[ChristopherRoss.]

One thing that I like to do in addition to this (doesn't always work) is to put an expander on the snare top, side chained to the bottom snare to bring out the body of the top mic a bit more.

Also, gate with a slow attack on the bot mic to pull out the ambient noise generated by the compression.

[KS-ldzs]

Another fun side effect of this is that you can sometimes use the snare wires reacting to the kick as kind of high-end attack, which ends up as a nice color in the right context.

[cristianibarraOfficial]

you earn another subscriber right here, I'm from Argentina, vielen dank für alles!!!!

[VoodooProjectStudio]

Brilliant technique! Really saved my drum tracks on my upcoming release! Thanks Kristian!

[DrBrunoDzogovic]

Another trick is to use a combination of a clipper and limiter. It will tame the transients but also enhance the lower volume notes. In the end, adding some saturation will make it cut through the mix.

[annekedebruyn]

Thats really clever. As a ghost notist, I am going to use this a lot! Thanks for sharing.