From the course: Tips and Tricks for Modern Producers
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A mixer's guide to drum routing
From the course: Tips and Tricks for Modern Producers
A mixer's guide to drum routing
- One thing I'd like to talk about is something that I see in a lot of people sessions and something that I get asked about a lot, and that is how do you set up your routing for your drums? Where do they go? And this is something that comes up with a lot of different types of music and a lot of different scenarios, but here's one approach that I think works really well, at least for a mixer. So, the way that I have things set up right now is that in Pro Tools, I have all of my drums going to what's called Drum Group here. And if you're not initiated with Pro Tools, then don't worry. Basically what drum group means is that it's going to this track that's called Drum Group, and this is just an aux track and that's basically just a through put for the drums. And what it gives me is actually an extra gain stage, because what I have here is all of my drums and they're doing their processing and then all of those are getting sent to this Drum Group, and that's going to be my drum, like…
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