Adding Samples To Real Drums To ENHANCE Your Mix

Miami takes you through his process of adding drum samples to live drums🪘

0:00 - Intro
2:35 - Blending Kick With Sample
3:04 - Choosing A Snare Sample
3:27 - Blending Snare Sample
3:54 - Kick & Snare Clipper
4:30 - Blending Tom Samples
5:32 - Bus Glue Drums
7:05 - Transient Design & Finality
7:40 - Before & After
8:51 - Outro

Song: Dark Shift - “Wishing Well”

Tags: joey sturgis, audio production, audio plugins
#productiontips #audioproduction #mixingtutorials

[CrushingAxes]

Yeah man the feeling of the live kick is awesome! I always use some sort of samples, but blending can be real challenge. Cool tips! Nice video.

[billwarner]

Been waiting for this video - thanks, Miami!

[franciskwekuosei]

Hi mam thank you for this amazing video, my question is how should the balance be between the live snare and the sample snare? Do you make the sample louder than the original snare or you make 50.50 between them

[onion]

I use to layer acoustic and pop drums sometimes, not on all drum parts but mainly the snare and kick, it's so good if done correctly

[MixingObsession]

I use Steven slate trigger in almost all my mixes. Really liking the get good drums sample pack lately because it came with one shots lol

[rome]

I usually only use samples for the snare and kick. The toms I leave as real drums. I also rarely do a 100% replacement. It varies from song to song, and it depends on how well the drums were recorded. Sometimes I'm just using 20% sampled drums and 80% real. Sometimes it's reversed. And everything in between.

I agree that it makes sense to leave more of the live snare in than the kick. I feel like a 100% sampled snare will sound more obviously fake. Besides, I consider the snare drum more important to the overall mix. For the kind of music I do, anyway. So I really want to get it right.

[PappaRodman]

Would love to see a video like this where all you have midi + sampled drums when you aren't able to record live drums. I use superior drummer 3 recorded from an electronic kit and try my best to make them sound as good and realistic as possible. Feel like there is a completely different strategy involved to make that work.

[aleksamrkela]

Glenn Fricker is losing his mind right now. xD

[cityofscreams]

Would you do a tutorial on sample replacing in reaper without slate trigger?

[leojcraig]

hi miami! thanks for the video!
i can’t help but notice that there was a huge increase in the overall volume of each drum compared to the original drums once you introduced the sample. I was wondering, is there a reason that you don’t get the original drum to the level want it before adding the sample? or do you do it this way on a case by case basis?
really enjoy the content dude, thanks a lot!

[rockboy]

So you're not processing the real drums separately? You leave the real raw track as it is and process it on the same channel as your sample?

[diostaylow]

Are the drum tracks are available to download for free? Or the whole session? For practice mixing? 🙂

[alrecks]

trying to time align each sample hits with the real thing is a PITA especially if the drums aren't properly edited lol.

[firmans]

Hi Miami what's the pop punk song used in the video before. The vocals fx one

[firmans]

I hate mixing or layering drum samples
Cause the hardest thing is finding the right sample lol.
Seriously it's harder that making the best of your raw drums lol
I'd rather replacing all the shells with samples or recording the live drum samples when recording to fix the dynamics

[Jazzguitar]

The comparison at the end would be better if they were gain matched a little more (obviously, I know the edited drums sound better). Also, people who actually have babies would never call drum samples their babies lmfao.

[RyRyTheBassGuy]

If I need to add samples to your drums, they're just getting fully replaced. Adding dynamics to midi is quicker than making sure phase and alignment is always good.

[Sinslikescarlet]

Tight tight. Really not feeling that kick tho.