How to Easily Mix Cymbals

Joey covers how to mix cymbals with ease and shows you a few tips to avoid the headache that comes with balancing them. How do you approach cymbals in your mixes? Let us know in the comments!

0:00 Introduction
0:24 Sampled drums
3:37 Live drums
7:15 Takeaways

Tags:home recording,audio production,mixing tutorials
#homerecording #audioproduction #mixingtutorials

[drdandalf]

This is a god-send of a video. Thank you so much JST!!!

[maniacle]

Free tips are always welcomed...thank you!!!

[brandondefalco]

This channel has taken my mixes to a whole new level. If anyone would like to hear my most recent mix, let me know and I will send it to you. I don’t want to spam this channel.

[lionsatmidnight]

That HPF was what I needed. I didn’t realize cymbals took up so much low and mid range. I already cut my problem high frequencies, but once I applied that HPF my song became even clearer. Thanks Joey! I love your “how to mix” segments. I had to use one yesterday on my toms and now they sound great. I don’t think there’s a problem I could have that you haven’t done a tutorial on and my music thanks you bro! I’m getting better with every release.

[thetylersherman]

Joey and JST - just want to say thanks for continuing to share your wealth of knowledge. Appreciate what you guys are doing.

[krismatic_]

What a great guy. I was literally just struggling to EQ my cymbals and next thing I know this is on my recommended feed.

[bartdemuynck]

Many thanks for this. Your videos are great: to the point, touching all the relevant aspects, no-bs.

[RoPanuganti]

Awesome overview, I really think this was my weakest area in my drum mix! I'd love to see how you all do relative leveling of cymbals to the rest of the kit in the future!

[lightartorias]

Dude your tutorials/lessons are so epic! I love that I can watch a movie video and immediately apply the knowledge!

[howzaaay]

The past few videos really helped cleaning my mixes and ill try this out as well. Thanks JST!!!

[arnodesogus]

Your content is always so useful. You teach this so well and you make it easy to understand. I already learned some cool stuff on this channel. Thank you. There's always something new for me to take away from each video.

[worksofein]

Very cool. I always struggle with cymbals and can never get them sounding smooth. There always seems to be some resonance that sounds like sleigh bells that I can never get rid of.

[metatronascension]

i guess ill have to get the clarify plugin

[michaelamaynard]

Hey Joey I love your videos. You put your ideas in a way I can understand. Can you make a video about EQing harsh frequencies in an entire mix? Like what to look for and where the typical offending frequencies.

[kshitijk]

This was interesting, just started a new way for cymbal mixing, i compress oh a little not even spot mics and to glue the kit with parallel drum bus, and at final my cymbals go to the master bus compressors only a little bit, and the on another bus with no comp for vol, like a parallel master bus !!

[pedrodyck]

I do it very similar, but I need the clarify plugin 😃

[royalsoundstudios]

What was the name of the first track/artist, as well as the very last song during the outro? Great videos! I wish you guys would add the credits of the artists you use in the description not only for them, but also for our listening pleasure! :)

[thomasrobertson]

Any suggestions for free plugins to solve similar issues if we’ve not yet got the full JST range

[acklin]

Do you sometimes have to flip polarity on the OHs after low-cutting them due to the resulting phaseshift?