@natemixing This one plug in is on about 500 of the 839 drum breaks I’ve released.

@natemixing Smack Attack

@natemixing Pro Tools, add lo-fi to snares, claps and sometimes kicks. Add like 0.4 or less distortion. Then just level, sometimes EQ

@natemixing With acoustic kits I use Slate Trigger 2. It is life changing to use the echo-cancellation on drums. Cleanest sounds you’ll ever get out of a gate.

@natemixing There’s a lot in my drum sauce… but a major ingredient is Glue Compression.

@natemixing Hats and shakers about -20 db Claps (varies) -20 to -14 db Kick no higher than -10 db Cymbals at whatever sounds best

@natemixing pan your hihats to the right 💪🏻

@natemixing Im big on saturating a parallel buss

@natemixing Hire an actual drummer who’s dope. Makes mixing easier when the talent knows how to hit the drums to produce the best sound

@natemixing Knock plug-in. Enough said

@natemixing T-RackS Classic Clipper

@natemixing Replace closed hat with cowbell, and open hat with large cowbell (pan to taste). Send cowbell directly to master bus while simultaneously triggering sidechain dynamic EQ on all other busses (wide scoop at around 1.2k).

@natemixing Go 16 bit on the kicks and snares.

@natemixing I use SD3 to stack samples before mixing to make my own drum sounds then the way I mix them tends to make them hit even harder

@natemixing Parallel compression, then send that to the reverb instead of each drum, Mabye have the snare send, super tight clean reverbs / and drums that slap

@natemixing I'm a automation control freak I don't care how inefficient it is, but I will manually copy-paste volume and eq automations of tracks that aren't the drums to make space for them. I could spend eons trying to get a chain of plugins to do it for me, or I could just do it myself.

@natemixing Tricks? Here’s 3 tips: 1. Use parallel processing to get extra glue and excitement out of your drums. 2. Don’t fully sound replace. Blend in a sample or 2 instead. Bonus points if you make the sample yourself from the actual session the drums were recorded in. 3. Edit your drums!

@natemixing ableton drum buss + black box hg2 or saturation knob

@natemixing Drum bus send to another bus called Drum Room, to add in a bit of room verb to liven the whole kit sound up. Mixing it as a kit rather than individual drums and using the room mics and overheads to give it more liveness. I even pan it like a live kit would be placed.

@natemixing Mono send from buss, Apx exciter send blend to taste. Thank me later. 💎