Adjust the phase on Tom 1 until the tom sounds the fullest and fattest. While looping the single tom 1 hit, solo both Tom 1 track and OH track. Make sure that the tom is panned in the same way it appears in the OH recording! This is very important. While solo'ing the "Tom 1" track, find a place where Tom 1 sounds its fullest and make a loop around it. Now you need to phase-align each tom to the overheads. Move the phase until you hear that that snare drum is at its fattest sounding. With SNARE GROUP and OH on solo together, play the loop of that single snare hit. Keep the loop in the same place as for the snare we just did. Insert the time-align plugin in the SNARE GROUP channel. Create a snare mono group “SNARE GROUP” and route the 2 snare tracks to it. Repeat the same process as with the kick drum, while listening to a loop of that single snare hit. Insert the phase plugin on the “Snare Bottom” track and make it mono as well. Listen to "Snare Top" track solo'd and find a snare hit that sounds particularly “fat”. The kick will sound deep, fat and punchy. The correct phrase is the one that produces most focused kick with the most low-end frequencies. You can also hit the “L180” button to turn the phase by 180° and then continue turning on the other end of the phase. You will notice drastic changes in sound. Start turning the phase nob first to one side then to the other. While playing the KICK GROUP solo-ed with Trigger Kick, listen to the loop of that single kick hit. We only need to use the phase parameter on this track.ģ. Insert phase-align plugin (in this example Voxengo's PHA979) on Sub Kick and set it to mono. You want to listen to a single kick hit in a loop in order to hear smallest changes.Ģ. You want to listen to one that has a particularly nice bottom end, although most of them will sound pretty much the same. While listening to Kick 1 solo, select one kick stroke and create a loop around that one stroke. There are other tools on the market such as those by Little Labs and Universal Audio.įor this step we are going to phase-align:ġ. I use Voxengo PHA979 plugin, as it is inexpensive, works and sounds great. Simply switching the phase on a channel is not enough, as it will only be able to change a phase by 180°, when often what is needed is finer adjustments such as 90°.įor this, we are going to use a phase-alignment tool. This step is unknown to many engineers and is often overlooked. This is how we are going to awaken the beast into an earth-shaking monster! Without the phase alignment, the drums will sound weak and their stereo image will be smudged. Now we come the part that if left out will undermine all of the great work we have done so far. This is a part 6 of the tutorial on how to process individual raw drum tracks into a finished product.
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