GRAMMY-winning producer Ryan Hewitt explains his techniques for mixing radio-ready drum sounds with any DAW or console.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Touring the SSL channel strip
- Listening to the faders-up track
- Checking phase before building the mix
- Panning and creating the stereo field
- What is groove?
- Starting with kick drum inside and front mics
- Bringing in the snare drum and bottom mics
- Widening the image with stereo overhead mics
- Focusing the groove with the hi-hat mic
- Utilizing the crush track printed during recording
- Getting larger-than-life sounds from the rack tom and floor tom mics
- Going further with ambience and balance
- Intro to parallel compression
- Parallel compression on the kick and snare
- Adding power with stereo parallel compression
- Distorting the trash mic
- Emphasizing the backbeat with parallel distortion
- Grouping drum tracks to control the full mix
- Using reverb to add depth
- The final mix of "We Won't Stand Alone"
- Inspiration and next steps
Taught by
Ryan Hewitt
