Studio One: Record, Edit, and Mix Multi-Track Drums
If you're a Studio One user wanting to learn how to record real live drums like a pro, this is the Studio One video course for you. S1 expert Eli Krantzberg takes you step-by-step through the process of recording, editing, and mixing a drum kit from start to finish. You'll learn tips about each step along the way, including processing, editing, and more. Drums are notoriously difficult to record in a home studio; with this S1 course, you'll learn everything you need to know to get a great sound in your own studio with Studio One! These Studio One videos are for users with a basic familiarity with Studio One.
Videos
• Drum & Mic Setup (04:41) - Get an up-close look at the drum kit setup and the Presonus DM-7 drum mics that will be used for the multi-track drum recording. Also hear a before and after sample of the track that will be recorded, edited, and mixed in this series.
• Tracking Setup (04:53) - See how the Studio One Audio I/O Output panel is set up for dual headphone mixes, how the audio interface physical inputs are named with their corresponding drum tracks, and how the tracks are set up and grouped for the recording.
• Multi-Track Drum Recording (03:37) - See how the audio interface polarity controls are used to minimize phase problems and watch as the rough drum track is performed.
• Comping (06:23) - Follow along as some simple layer editing is used to comp together a drum part that is mainly from one take, but with a few fills taken from others.
• Dealing with a Resonant Ring (04:01) - Learn a really cool workflow using the Pro EQ and MixTool plug-ins that will minimize resonant ringing from the tom mic(s).
• Slip, Nudge, Fade (05:32) - Explore a quick and simple workflow to tighten up small sections of your drum part that may be subtly ahead or behind the beat.
• Drum Bus: Top-Down Mixing (07:24) - Follow along as the drum tracks are bussed to a subgroup with Console Shaper enabled. EQ is added to correct some problematic areas with resonant rings and to sweeten the low and high end, followed by some gentle tube-style compression. With the overall drum texture in place, any processing on subsequent individual tracks will now ?mix into? this drum bus signal chain.
• Overheads (06:07) - The overheads are grouped together and processed with two different vintage-style EQs and some very light compression.
• Kick Drum (02:29) - Hear how some extreme Fat Channel Pultec-style EQ, combined with some Channel Strip EQ and compression, can create a nice, tight, punchy kick sound that fattens up the existing low end from the overheads.
• Snare Drum (06:34) - See how the snare top track is processed using dynamic EQ before it's subgrouped together with the snare bottom track. Once processing is in place on this snare bus, a send is set up for some parallel snare bus compression containing tight, fast FET-style compression along with saturation.
• Toms (04:25) - Explore an alternate approach to treating the resonant ring in the small tom by using some extreme dynamic EQ settings to create a ducking band.
• Drum Room Reverb (03:25) - A small room space is set up using the Open Air impulse response reverb to give the overall drums some ambience.
• Snare Crush Bus (02:09) - A second parallel snare bus track is set up, this time featuring some guitar amp processing and extreme tube limiting.
• Bringing the Whole Mix Together (05:37) - After a few minor mix tweaks, listen to the playthrough of the full mix.