From the course: Mixing Techniques for Pop Music Part 1
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Taming and then featuring percussion - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Mixing Techniques for Pop Music Part 1
Taming and then featuring percussion
- [Voiceover] For those of you who haven't recorded much percussion yet, these are an instrument that show almost no measurement at all on a VU meter. So don't make them too hot and they should look small like this in the waveforms. Their energy is primarily in the high end transient response and mostly percussion is a factor that drives the rhythm section along with the drums. I always like to play them off the drums for instance, a tambourine part that comes in, in the chorus, it should play nicely off the hi-hat that's been there all along and so on and so forth. I'm gonna stick with this Bossa Nova song, and I'd like to thank Shana Halligan for this beautiful piece of music and letting us share it with you here in this course. I'm choosing this song cause it has so much percussion and the percussion is so important. Let's give it a listen. ♫ I love you ♫ Eu te Amo♫ (percussion beating) There's obviously some programmed percussion in there that that sound effect is, it's a…
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Understanding signal processing order8m 4s
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Kick drum processing techniques5m 51s
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Snare drum processing7m 44s
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Tom toms and cymbals processing8m 56s
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Drum room mics processing7m 47s
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Lead vocal processing techniques12m 9s
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Background vocal processing techniques7m
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Gain processing using EQ and dynamics6m 40s
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Treating the bass guitar8m 19s
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Treating synth bass sounds7m 46s
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Making electric guitars sing with compression, EQ, and reverb11m 43s
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Placing acoustic grand piano in the mix6m 23s
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Carefully crafting the keyboards8m 41s
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Choosing the right EQ for the acoustic guitar9m 50s
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Taming and then featuring percussion7m 51s
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Mixing real and sampled strings13m 1s
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Treating real live brass8m 37s
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Parallel compression techniques7m 58s
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