Drum Bus Techniques: Tips For Amazing Drums│Soundoracle.net

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This week’s tutorial is a step-by-step guide to drum busses.
Drums are an important component in modern day music. The right tone & feel of the drum mix is an important part of the driving force for any song or beat. Creating a solid “glued” sound for your drum bus is a great way to ensure a solid knock without creating chaos. Website: soundoracle.net/
In this video we will breakdown the things to consider on your drum bus such as, proper routing, setting levels, saturation, & bus compression. We will demonstrate how to execute these task & give you tips on how to properly compress your drum bus so it doesn't sound smooshed or lose it’s punch.
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@Unc707 3 жыл бұрын

Great job brother!

@benishark 3 жыл бұрын

Best drum buss tuto:)

@JeXeuZ 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Realistic. Love what you guys are doing. Sharing these tips are definitely helping the producer community learn new and different ways to create great songs. I would love to see you do a video on gain staging and mixing soon. Thx and God bless you guys!!! 🙏🙌👍

@realisticproductionsLLC 5 жыл бұрын

- hey thanks for watching. Glad the info is useful! Great suggestion on gain staging. I actually have a lot of videos on mixing already. They’re on this channel.

@JeXeuZ 5 жыл бұрын

@@realisticproductionsLLC Thx!!!

@realisticproductionsLLC 5 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

@yonibregman4337 3 жыл бұрын

Quick question (By the way I bought the mixing course 👍) Why my Drum bus (sum) comp have a 2db reduction even before I touch the threshold (I'm on +15) while you got it compressing only around 0?

@kevinraynbeats6910 2 жыл бұрын

Yo @Realistic, question for you. If I’m side chaining my kick to the 808, should I be routing the kick to the drum bus as well? What if the kick is a higher volume than the other drum elements, would that bot trigger the bus compressor too early where the quieter elements aren’t even affected by the compressor? Let me know fam!

@hajro89 3 жыл бұрын

The Glue by Cytomic is my fave

@benishark 3 жыл бұрын

Yes i agree

@benishark 3 жыл бұрын

Is the toploop also on the drum buss?:)

@geestarworld5181 2 жыл бұрын

should saturation be place before the compressor or after

@millionhertz 5 жыл бұрын

helo Realistic what is the model. of your macbook pro and what. do you recommand @t this point for someone like me who wants to compose but also mix please ( got a touch bar model i5 8 gigs of ram)... And by. the congrats on the great. videos wich are very. helpful and clear and easy to. understand your a great teacher !!! God bless you `

@realisticproductionsLLC 5 жыл бұрын

millionhertz hey thanks for watching! Glad the info is useful. I have a 2014 15” MacBook. Quad core processor & 16 GB of RAM. Quad core/16GB definitely helps with the performance when I’m running big sessions with lots of plugins.

@millionhertz 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for answering this quick . I love your tutorials i feel you know what you re doing and talking about unlike lots of others!!! keep on the good work... Would love to see a tutorial on what kind of speakers and audio interfaces to go for when ssomeone wants to make and mix good hip hop beats and maybe record some vocals to them!!! thank you Realistic

@realisticproductionsLLC 5 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! Great suggestions!

@angi7360 5 жыл бұрын

Hi! Thank you for your tutorial. It really helped out. But i got a question, which disturbs me : I'm on logic pro and 'im getting started with the drum bus. When i'm sending my drums on the bus, I don't know at which level I should send my drums in the drums bus. Shall I go all the way up (6-db) or keep it lower ? It's really confusing. Thans for your answer. Subbed

@realisticproductionsLLC 5 жыл бұрын

Debonairo Beats hey thanks for watching. I use Pro Tools, so maybe Logic has a different routing system, but I route the outputs of my kick, snare, HHs, etc to the input of an AUX track. So the levels are reaching the drum sum at the level I set them in the mix.

@wrightonrice 5 жыл бұрын

I get a general balance mix between the individual drum tracks first, then use the drum bus for volume thereafter. I may go back and tweak (indiv tracks) if I need to. Hope this helps.

@prod.brooklyndavid721 3 жыл бұрын

Everytime I put my kick in the bus it ruins it. Any suggestions why this is happening? I always end up just bussing the hi hats open hats clap and snare then keeping the kick and 808 separate

@realisticproductionsLLC 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Make sure the kick drum channel is at a low enough volume so it doesn’t clip your drum bus input & also make sure you’re using a slow attach. You could also use the side chain filter on your bus compressor & set it at around 80Hz. That will tell the compressor to ignore everything from 80Hz & below. That might ease up the workload the compressor has.

@CardnylMusic 4 жыл бұрын

Why would you choose distortion over saturation or an exciter? I mean doesnt distortion damage harmonics as opposed to bringing out harmonics? (Via. Saturation or an exciter) Or is he trying to dull the drums so they fall into the background?

@red9317 4 жыл бұрын

Cardnyl music good question! I’m wondering that too.

@marvinseifner2199 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought. Especially in the lowend

@whatareyouselling9811 4 жыл бұрын

An exicter is literally just saturation, and saturation is just another form of distortion, it literally doesn't matter what you use as long as it sounds good to your ears then who cares

@therealk-tone214 5 жыл бұрын

Hey realistic do you eq and compress each sound in addition to the drum bus, or just each sound sent to the bus as shown in the video?

@realisticproductionsLLC 5 жыл бұрын

Hey! I EQ each individual drum. I usually don’t compress them individually unless it’s a live drum kit & the drums are sounding really dynamic. When they’re samples though, I just DJ bus compression to glue them all together.

@Fishoilification 4 жыл бұрын

@@realisticproductionsLLC do you run your drums through some analog gear for punch and fatness?

@rize8218 4 жыл бұрын

I’d like to see in the next video someone who understands what he does.

@realisticproductionsLLC 4 жыл бұрын

What makes you think I don't? LOL

@MannUpTv 4 жыл бұрын

So the 808 doesn’t get sent to the bus??

@grimish_tunes 4 жыл бұрын

no the 808 have to be mixed alone and have to be sent to the sidechain bus

@DrDeese 5 жыл бұрын

One question; do you put your 808 on your drum bus?

@realisticproductionsLLC 5 жыл бұрын

Demetrius Deese I personally don’t because I treat the 808 like a bass line & I have a whole different process & setup for bass lines. I’m sure there are thousands of people who put the 808 in their drum sum though!

@NathanBrown-dk5wh 5 жыл бұрын

I would put on the same bus after all an 808 it's the low part of a kick if you think about it. Remember in acoustic drum you have a in mix and an out mic that is how I think of the 808 bass and a kick hence the reason an kick with a long tail always clash with an 808.But everyone has they own approach to it

@jackflynn-oakley6137 5 жыл бұрын

Nathan Brown I mean yeah everyone has they're own approach, there's nothing particularly 'wrong' with sending your 808 to the drum bus but I can't really see why you'd do it? Especially if your splitting the 808 into a sub then driven mid / top. It's just better for control and just generally easier to work with the 808 / sub separately than your drums. Also, if you want to transient shape your drum bus, your 808 would then have the same processing... doesn't make sense to me. Bare people will also tell you not to parallel compress your sub / 808, where as drums are a common thing to apply parallel compression.

@DrDeese 5 жыл бұрын

REALISTIC PRODUCTIONS thanks!

@realisticproductionsLLC 5 жыл бұрын

Demetrius Deese you’re welcome!