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Building the mix from the toms

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Building the mix from the toms

Many mixers feel that when they build their mix from the kick or snare the tom fills get lost when they enter the song. That's why some mixers prefer to build their drum mix from the toms and build the rest of the mix around them. In this movie, I will show you just how to do that. So in order to start from the toms, the first thing we're going to have to do is find a place in the song where the toms are playing. What I am going to do is hit Command+5. That's going to bring up our memory locations. And I have already selected a memory location where the drum fills happen. So we come down here to Drum Fill, click on that, and now we should have a nice drum fill to start from. The first thing I will do is I will bring up tom number one. It doesn't matter which tom you start from in this case. I will just bring up tom number one because it says number one. We'll be able to adjust it a little bit later. The big thing is we want to be able to hear this and all the other toms without…

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