FabFilter Saturn DRUM Mixing Trick You NEED To Try!

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This incredibly cool trick I stole from Eric Valentine uses the saturation in Fabfilter Saturn 2 in an interesting way, resulting in drums that sound more forward, thicker, less muddy, and brighter while at the same time smoother and less harsh!
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Пікірлер: 43

@Shred_Rocket Жыл бұрын

I learned this technique from Nolly. Good to see it works great.

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

Oh nice! Nolly is the man!

@mattelder4269 8 ай бұрын

This is a killer video. Thanks so much!

@BetterMixes 8 ай бұрын

I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!

@jacobsarinas6537 Жыл бұрын

Damn that guitar tone at the end! Damn thats really a killer tone

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I THINK that was my Mesa Single Rectifier into a V30 in a Vox 412 cab.

@Axeltab Жыл бұрын

Saturn especially on toms is awesome!

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's incredible how much it adds to them! And Saturn is just sooo versatile, it's such a great tool!

@fishyfortnitesquad 4 ай бұрын

Hey man! I just discovered you today. Thank you so much you are so awesome and straight to the point. Great for pros who want quick knowledge bombs without hand holding.

@BetterMixes 4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked the video!

@DaPhunk73 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video! Have seen Eric and a lot of others use Saturn with great results, but never managed to get my head around how to use it myself. As good as it sounds, it is just not very intuitive to me. Your video finally did it for me. Thanks a lot! Liked and subscribed, keep up the good work ;-)

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I owned Saturn for a long time before I started actually using it. Like you said, it just wasn't super intuitive and had a lot going on. I didn't know where to start! But once I "got it", I couldn't stop using it! It's such a great tool. I'm glad you liked the video!

@JoshuaStMoblo Жыл бұрын

Great Eric Valentine method.

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you dig it! Thanks for watching!

@antonionevone7320 Жыл бұрын

Your videos are just GREAT, and your drum samples are unbelivable too (and Im getting free updates and expansion kits all the time). Thank you so much!

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Antonio! I'm really glad you're enjoying the samples! And the videos!

@eranddroory9987 Жыл бұрын

Nice one 🙂

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked it!

@rome8180 9 ай бұрын

My favorite Eric Valentine record is probably Queens of the Stone Age. The Grace Potter record he just put out is mind-blowing though. He just did a mix breakdown of one of the songs. Highly recommend.

@BetterMixes 9 ай бұрын

I love that QOTSA album! The drum sounds are insane. I'll definitely have to check out the Grace Potter breakdown video though! I missed that one somehow!

@rome8180 9 ай бұрын

@@BetterMixes it's in the Live tab on his channel. Only video there.

@sebastiandordoni2268 Жыл бұрын

dude awesome trick, thanks so much! and btw you look like leon kennedy from re 2 remake

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

No problem, I'm glad you liked it! And I had to look up what leon kennedy looks like, and hey, I'll take it!

@francobuzzetti9424 3 ай бұрын

wait wtf? that's what the dynamics knob do? omg this is game changer

@BetterMixes 3 ай бұрын

Haha I honestly don't know exactly what it's doing/how it's doing it so well, but it legitimately is one of the best gate plugins out there (and DEFINITELY the easiest to use being a single knob). Cranking it the other way (into compression) can be a lot of fun on certain tracks too. It's got a really unique sound to it!

@AquaticAudio Жыл бұрын

My inner voice: "...don't buy more plugins...don't buy more plugins...don't buy more plugins..." Better Mixes: "Check out this dope plugin!" My inner voice: "........." My wallet: "Here we go again..." My wife: "Stop watching Mike's videos!" Dope song btw!

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

Hahaha I know...that was literally me with this exact plugin when I discovered this trick. "I've already got a hundred saturation plugins; I don't need another" *sees cool trick using Saturn* "well...just demoing it can't hurt..." *after demoing* "dammit, I guess I'm going to own a hundred and one saturation plugins!"

@petterfjerdingen1392 8 ай бұрын

Hey Mike! When mixing, would you start with Saturn before adding EQ's?

@BetterMixes 8 ай бұрын

Hey Petter! If the track needs a lot of EQ, I'll do most of the heavy lifting before using Saturn, but if it's close and only needs a little EQing, then I'll usually use Saturn first since using it this way brightens things up.

@Arttaporn2 Жыл бұрын

what this Drum Sample? I love it Tone 💕🙏🏻

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you like it! It's the Bonsai Snare which is free at bettermixes.com

@Arttaporn2 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

@@Arttaporn2 No problem!

@jacobemms9449 10 ай бұрын

Great trick for samples but would love an example on a real kit? This would just explode cymbals and make this extremely harsh

@BetterMixes 10 ай бұрын

It actually works great on live drums too! I should have used live drums for this video, but I just happened to be working on a bunch of MIDI drum sessions at the time and grabbed one of those. Obviously you can't always crank it quite as far on live drums as you have to deal with cymbals, but you can usually still go pretty far, especially if you reduce the dynamics knob a bit on the upper band to cut back on the cymbal bleed.

@alexshel8578 9 ай бұрын

before sounds better than after

@BetterMixes 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man. (Big Lebowski reference) But in all seriousness, if you have Saturn (or feel like demoing it), give this a try but maybe dialed back a little bit. I pushed this example fairly hard to make the difference more obvious, but it can be used more subtly too. Or, these drum samples are already fairly processed, so maybe you'd still like this technique on less processed drums or live drums. OR, maybe this trick just isn't for you which is obviously totally fine as well!

@alexshel8578 9 ай бұрын

@@BetterMixes I'm just kidding. For me there is only before and after. I can’t say that any of the options is better

@lb2696 Жыл бұрын

Songs for the Deaf.

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

Ooooh yeah! Such killer drum sounds on that album!

@retsucharliez150 Жыл бұрын

All you are hearing is alliasing distortions. Maybe it sounds good with you but for me it's distorted alot 😅😅😅

@BetterMixes Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I mean it's a distortion plugin, so distortion is exactly what I'd expect to hear from it. You can use it much more subtly (as I often would, I went a little on the heavy side to make it more obvious for the video), but if you just don't like the sound of saturation on drums, this probably isn't the technique for you.

@rome8180 9 ай бұрын

There's no "aliasing." You're using that word because you think it makes you sound smart. It's literally a distortion plugin, so it's going to sound distorted. But that's not the same thing as aliasing (which is far more subtle, btw).