Making your own breaks

[Dom!Reavers!]

cheers for that good to see my processes and workflow are fairly similar to you guys already. And arpeggiating white noise out've FM8 is such a cool idea, will definitely be trying that out. Good to see you guys on the forum, hope you stick around

[Salvus]

Good to see you guys on the forum, hope you stick around

This.
Really nice helpful posts. Will try out that bus layout at some point. Never thought of sending a bussed track to another.
I'm on ableton and have been grouping tracks instead of using sends and returns. Not sure if it will let me group 2 groups together... Hmmm I shall have a play tomorrow

[June Miller]

This.
Really nice helpful posts. Will try out that bus layout at some point. Never thought of sending a bussed track to another.
I'm on ableton and have been grouping tracks instead of using sends and returns. Not sure if it will let me group 2 groups together... Hmmm I shall have a play tomorrow

anytime! I like this forum compaired to any other, lots of positivity and actually helpful responses Would rather spend some spare time here than playing Chess or something haha (not that I have anything againist Chess :P)

Give it a go in Abelton! Tbh I am not even sure of that functionality but you must be able to do it. Buses and sends are my friends

[miszt]

in Ableton you can use Groups, virtually unlimited nesting aswell, leads to some interesting routing possibilities

[troublemakers]

This.
Really nice helpful posts. Will try out that bus layout at some point. Never thought of sending a bussed track to another.
I'm on ableton and have been grouping tracks instead of using sends and returns. Not sure if it will let me group 2 groups together... Hmmm I shall have a play tomorrow

It will and there are definitely advantages to using bus's and sends. You won't lose attack on your drums if you bus them which is a very good thing, i find i might create a group channel and then send my drums to the group for final compression to glue it all together but outside of that i like to use bus's..

[mistasfx]

nice one june miller on being a part of the section. big up

[Michael D. Day]

now, i'm no professional... but i'm pretty sure there should be some kicks in there.

HA

[lostnthesound]

yeah correct With Brave Man, we used one of the EZ kits actually (can't remember which one but can pull open the project if needed)

From memory we layered the kick with something alittle fuller in the low end, we added an electronic clap over the snare and used the FM8 to fill out some of the hats. In terms of filling out the hats, we just programmed some simple white noise on an arpeggiator, where you can automate the velocity and accent. This should make the whole thing sound less ridget Its pretty low in the mix to be honest but does its job

In terms of Mutil Channel routing, yeah that is possible (and essential! )

So a standard processing workflow would look something like this:

BUS 1 (Hats) - High Pass to 100-200hz, Compress
BUS 2 (Snare) - EQ, Compress
-> BUS 3 (Hats & Snare) - Multi Band Exciter, Multi Band Transient shaper, Compress
BUS 4 (Kick) - Multi Band Exciter, Multi Band Transient shaper, Compress
-> BUS 5 (All Drums) - Compress, Noise Processor, Limit

Thanks for sharing this June Miller!

One quick follow-up question: once you've sent the hats, snare, & kick to their respective bus', do you then send each bus to a "group" bus for the entire drum kit, or do you just send Bus 1, 2, and 3 directly to the master out?

Thank you kindly for sharing your knowledge, it's quite a privilege.

Cheers.