I didn't do anything different with guitars.just recorded them like normal. It was my first attempt at doing this but after hearing our producer in ATL use samples that some famous old school engineer did that nickleback, linkin park, chevelle, foo fighters, etc all use, I heard how much of a difference they can make (most noticeably on the kick and snare) so I'm giving that a shot to see how they work out and it's surprisingly easy to get them sounding ok. It was my first time messing with actual individual mics so for the first time, I got the chance to not only do a little eq work on each component of the kit but I also took the liberty of using the drumagog sampler plugin This mix was more or less dedicated to making better sounding drums. they got lumped into 1 bus without me realizing it.Īnyways, let me know what you guys think overall of the mix as a whole or I guess more specifically if there are any things I can do to make the drums sound better.

The one thing I didn't do on this one was separate the toms. I got superior drummer 2.0 for more in depth drum editing like gating, eq'ing, limiter, etc with the various drum kit mics and I used EZdrummer's drumkit from hell to build all the grooves.

Superior drummer 2.0 metal preset