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- KVRAF
- 6408 posts since 22 Jan, 2005 from Sweden
What you do here is good learning process for the tools on the drums bus.
Use every compressor you have to see what it does to drums.
I would leave out on the mastering talk - that's for a full mix.
There is no value mastering, really, on just drums, or just synths or whatever.
Once drums are in the full mix - and you know your tools - you can quickly get them working in that environment of the mix.
The sum of drums and the rest might not be good just because drums sounded good on it's own.
Use every compressor you have to see what it does to drums.
I would leave out on the mastering talk - that's for a full mix.
There is no value mastering, really, on just drums, or just synths or whatever.
Once drums are in the full mix - and you know your tools - you can quickly get them working in that environment of the mix.
The sum of drums and the rest might not be good just because drums sounded good on it's own.
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240
- KVRAF
- 35098 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from the wilds of wanny
- KVRer
- 7 posts since 2 Mar, 2015 from London
Don't think of it as mastering, more as sub-mixing. By using aux tracks you want to bus your drums together and apply some processing to "glue" them together, effect overall dynamics/EQ. This will help to make fine tune the overall drum sound as well as make it simpler to change volume or sound of all drums.thecontrolcentre wrote:What do you mean when you talk about mastering drums?