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Anyone have some tips for working with and mixing drums in Logic? Specifically, standard settings for individual tracks. I'm just curious what some best practices are / things to avoid on individual drum tracks.
I get pretty decent results with a mix of electronic and live drum samples with the 808 and 909 when I'm doing more ambient electronic stuff with guitars and piano/rhodes in Logic. But when I try to do something a bit more synth heavy and electronic, I end up spending too much time exploring different sounds (not that that's a bad thing by any means). I guess I'm just trying to tighten things up by knowing some tried-and-true techniques.
I'd say my more acoustic/electronic stuff, drums-wise is a bit inspired by the drum sounds on the Apparat album The Devil's Walk. As far as full-on electronic stuff, always been a huge fan of Telefon Tel Aviv and the variety of percussion sounds they use.
- make sure your drums are all tuned to the same key if you're mixing one shotsalbums
- It's kind of a cop out, but it's hard to give advice without hearing the track...ltjohnrambo
- As a rule, listen for the problem and find a way to address it...ltjohnrambo
- otherwise you may do more harm than good.ltjohnrambo