Improving Drum Mixes With Gates

Share this post Twitter Facebook Tumblr Email Posted May 16, 2012 in Gates, Mixing, Multitrack, Reason 6, SSL, Tutorial, Video

In this video I show you how to utilize gates in Reason (with their fantastic SSL 9000k-modeled mixer) on a multitrack drum session to clean up and improve the mix.

The drum sessions in the video are available here.

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VIDEO: Tour of Complete Takes Vol 2 in Ableton, Logic and Reason 6

Share this post Twitter Facebook Tumblr Email Posted May 11, 2012 in Ableton, Logic, Multitrack, Reason, Reason 6, Video

Not just drum loops, but entire, song-length performances of multitracked drum sessions.... that's what Complete Takes is all about.  In this video, I give you a look at Complete Takes Vol 2 and work with the drum sessions inside of Logic, Ableton Live and Reason 6.  

Working with quality, live multitrack drums has never been easier.  Literally, just drag and drop the files into your session and go.  Check out the video for an in-depth look:

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Introducing "Complete Takes" - Start to Finish Multitrack Drum Sessions

Share this post Twitter Facebook Tumblr Email Posted April 27, 2012 in Complete Takes, Multitrack

We're proud to introduce our new line of Multitrack Drum Sessions - "Complete Takes". Not just loops, but entire 3-4 minute song performances that you can drag and drop into any DAW. Check it out!

Vol 1 Specs:
3 Complete Song Sessions
10 Individual Drum & Percussion Tracks
Total Size:  1.2 GB
24 bit 48 kHz WAV Files

 

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Video: Multitrack Drums in Ableton + Free Template

Share this post Twitter Facebook Tumblr Email Posted December 09, 2011 in Ableton, Arranging, Multitrack

In some of my past videos, I've shown you how to work with multitrack drums inside of Logic and manipulate loops in Reason 6, but today my focus is on Ableton.  In this video, I utilize the Felt & Wires Multitrack Session to explain my workflow for:

  • setting up the session before loading the audio files 
  • getting a quick rough mix
  • recording a live arrangement from session view
  • grouping the tracks to clean things up
And as a bonus, I've provided the same template I use in the as a free download.  If you own the Felt & Wires Session, or any other of our Multitrack Sessions, this will be a great starting point for setting up your tracks in Ableton.

Click here to download the template!


Have any questions or comments?  Leave 'em below!

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Video Tutorial - Mixing Multitrack Drums

Share this post Twitter Facebook Tumblr Email Posted September 30, 2011 in Mixing, Multitrack, Odd Meters

Sit down, grab a drink and make yourself comfortable.  This will take a while.  In this 24 minute long video, I walk you through some of my own drum mixing techniques, demonstrated with our latest Multitrack Sessions release, Lucky Sevens.  Again, I'm using Logic for this tutorial, but all of these basic principals of utilizing EQ, compression, gating, reverb etc can be utilized in any DAW (Pro Tools, Ableton, Reason, Garageband, yaddy yaddy yadda...).

And if watching a guy mix an odd meter drum session wasn't exciting enough, there is a surprise guest appearance by the police.

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Video Tutorial - Arranging Multitrack Drums

Share this post Twitter Facebook Tumblr Email Posted September 16, 2011 in Arranging, Multitrack, Tutorial

The thought of working with Multitrack Drum Sessions may seem daunting to some of you, but it's really as easy as dragging and dropping.  This video, utilizing our Thick & Meaty Session, gives you a quick overview of how the sessions are configured, as well as some tips for creating your own drum arrangements inside of your DAW.  

This is the first of a series of videos I'll be posting in Ryan's Corner, so subscribe to the RSS feed to stay up to date with new content!

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