I'm guessing the hi-hats are 2 splash cymbals....

Thanks for using bad-sounding drums to start, in most videos the drums already sound great and they make them only slightly better. This difference is night and day!

this video is amazing, because a lot of us work with either a: drums with ill qualities magnified by recording, or more likely b: badly recorded drums. Hats off to you grant, for doing a video in the real world.

your click kick trick is the best thing i've ever learned besides sweeping EQ and removing bad frequencies

The hi-hats hurt my happy.

Man! I know a lot of people probably write this to you, but I just have to say it! I have a LOOOOOOOOOOT of Waves plugins and use quite a bit of them on each and every single track! But I still don't like what I'm hearing! And then I stumbled across this and followed the steps to a T. As in, I just copied every single thing you did and pasted it into my project. And I was amazed at the Quality of the audio! I had a hard time believing that THAT type of sound was possible with a few of the basic Inbuilt FX. Thank you man for what you do! From the bottom of my heart! God Bless👌🏻🙏🏻

I would just like to say that your videos have helped me improve so much in what i can do. Thank you so much, you've got some talent

I had some drums I had to clean up like this recently. The drum recording I had was too far gone in my opinion so I just used Slate Digitals Trigger to add in some drum replacement. Blended the kick snare and toms with the samples and used the overheads from the recording. Did some sculpting similar to what you did here, then the magic happened! Good stuff!

Awesome vid graham, this would have saved me a HUGE amount of time with the learning curve of mixing if i had this video a few years back! Thanks again! Rocnroll!

So awesome man! Stoked to see you working on heavy music! That's what I mostly do. Really kewl to see that all these principles are universal.

Awesome video Graham! Really helps people like me recording drums on a budget, just gotta get a hold of some of that awesome waves stuff

As the ex-guitar player of this band, I am ashamed to admit that this is in fact a $4,000 DW Collector's Series kit. It's not the gear that makes the mix, but what you know to do with it, y'all.

This is drum magic right here! Learned a lot from this video. Thanks for sharing, Graham. :)

Nice work, man! Some people might be complaining about it being a little over-processed or muffled, but I really like what you did with what you had. There's a lot to be said for working with what you got. Anyway, I find this useful not because I work with live recordings, but because I make electronic and sampled music, and it's ridiculously helpful to see how traditional mixing engineers tackle problems like this. Thanks!

Another great lesson in mixing Graham !! Thanks for all the help you give to the pubic. Peace !!

at the end of the day i think it's all about ear training, knowing what sound to hear and using those plug ins to achieve those clean punchy and in your face mix, Graham has got i all locked in to his ears, i need to practice listening more and mixing of course, thanks for this Graham! an ear and eye opener =)

the before and after test at the end made me laugh a little too hard.. great job! thanks for all the insight and tips

Really good stuff..I had had the same problems in mixing drum tracks that were real hollow sounding kits...thanks,,

this video just saved my drum mix much thanks , you the man

Subscribed and joined mailing list, great video! I do HipHop mostly but i like to learn new genres and techniques. Appreciate your knowledge shared. Respect!

Day and night...!! Awesome sculpting work. Thanks for sharing

This guy has some talent.

I just want to thank you so much. Your tutorials, are the best ! I wish all the best in the world. Thank you very much !

Brilliant video. Thank you guys!

Snare snizzle lol cracked me up 10:30 ! Awesome Tut as always!

hi hat sounds like the drummer uses a tambourine instead of it :) great work!

That's incredibly different from everything else we hear you working on! That only increases your credibility :)

You gotta love that Snare Sizzle!!

most useful video yet! Thanks Graham!

Great job fixing up those drums! But, oh those hi-hats :-P Blehh! It's not in the scope of this video, and in the context of the song they work as-is. But usually when I get a hi-hat mic track this dark/coarse/nasty I find an *exciter* (used delicately) can make the hats sound much crisper, and like they were more expensive circles of metal. An exciter can add high-frequency content that didn't even exist in the original track :-) ...just don't use too much!

The snare could also use some gated reverb to make it stand out more. Other than that a great ezample of use of EQ and compression.

I love you bro! Thanks for that Kick Click!

Sounds great! Can you explain exactly why you duplicated the bass drum and snare to add click and sizzle? What's the difference between that method, and just putting EQs on the original kick and snare tracks?

Hey Graham. Love your channel first and foremost. I have a question and would really like if you could answer it for me. Do DAWS have a certain sound about them? I know in general some vary with headroom and etc, but do some DAWS have a box sound and some a different sound. I know the way you mix ur material determines how ur final mix sounds, but do DAWS differ in general sound? Thank you for your time and bless you.

Thanks for this video, awesome tips

Love that track. What was it?

The guitars sound like they were recorded with a potato.

Is there any way of disabling the thing that Pro Tools does where it disables all other sounds from your computer when its running (no audio while browsing on the internet, no audio when playing music or videos on your computer)?

wwoooohhhoooo........the instrumental on which you worked in this video is awesome........actually don't mind because the comment is out of the main topic

How much of the individual tracks should I send to the drum master bus? All of it? Most of it? Thanks

I would love to see how you fixed those middy guitars

ok but j ve hearing you saying on Rethinking Mix that you d rather put compressors and eq ont an aux even with individual track before drum bus, is it not a rule???

Check out this guy Raz Klinghoffer's mixes... Pretty loud and clear

that is much much better. I did this the other day in a mix actually. The thing that I don't like about this mix are those guitars haha

I'm thinking about buying the SSL E-Channel. Does it expires or renews every year? Thanks! I'm a follower and in your mailing-list.

Im having alittle problem in mixing and EQ drums with one track, i use a real live mixer and connect it to the interface and just can record with one channel, do you got experience o this kind situation?

That "St. Anger" though! Are you sure you don't want to keep that ;p

That's a massive difference. But for the djent sound some sample triggering would be nice.

what was the drummer using as hats ? cause i swear thats not a hi hat, sounds awful

nice work and tnx 4 tips

He does metal! More more Graham!!!

I should've had this video about 4 months earlier :) I was mixing a drumset that sounded kind of bad..but we got it alright. This video would have helped alot though

Hi Do you tune the drums to a note or frequency?

I would have sent the tracks back and told them to record the drums properly, and buy a new hi-hat. But, I'm just a prick when it comes to shitty sounding raw tracks. :)

Would have been great using a gate on the snare sizzle.

Amazinggg!

Is it possible the kick sounded better when you rolled off the OH because one or both of the overheads were out of phase with it? Like maybe it was just poorly placed overhead mics.

What program is he using to EQ and compress?

damn you have a video for eveeryhting i search for lol

do you have the raw?

the snare sounds broken all along i know the point was to show how to make something recorded bad sound good but at this point i'd record again lol

Why did you set such a slow atack on the paralel drums? (compression)

Amazing

garbage in is garbage out, it's important to teach new bands that in the studio. considering that though, this is a great video how to deal with polishing turds

Dunno why everyone is crying about the track being so bad. That's not the point, the point is even with such a bad track Graham could make it sound much better. I personally liked the end product from what it was, especially since I'm also a fan of fat snares like Graham. Thanks Graham this video improved my already good sounding drums a bunch.

Listening to those, it's like how did that happen

Great!

Great Grahan

Sounds greats Graham, not a fan of that hi hat but thats not about your mix. Nicely done though on the overall drum mix.

Thank You

where did you study?

I have a question on mixing drums. Our drummer wants the drums on a song to sound very echoey and dissonant. How can I make the drums sound really vintage and crappy but still sound pro quality?

djent djent djent d d djent djent. those guitars hahaha first time I've heard you do something more hardcore! haha

With drums like that.... I'd much rather sample replace with some solid samples than use that stuff :

nice

The hi hats are bad but honestly the rest doesnt sound too bad to me. Pretty commom drum sound in punk/heavy metal music.

SNARESIZZLESNARESIZZLE!!1)) for some reason, this video seems a lot livelier and more relaxed at the same time.. oh, I'm sorry, this must be irrelevant..

.....or you could use Trigger drum replacement software. Yeah....That's the ticket.

DJENT!!!

Now I only need 400 dollars to buy the plugins

What I find amazing is how the guitars and bass sound more open and clean after just the fixing of the drums. You could practically call it a finished mix after just the drum cleanup alone and most people would be totally good with that.

I really would have considered re-recording them, coz you did what you could, but they still aren't great and yeah, they sound over-processed... coz they are!

I think its a great mix. But the snare in this genre for me would be more edgy. Cheers

guitars severely need to tune, and timing is a bit off. but good tutorial, thank you

Sounds like a roland td12k

For me there isn't enough low-end punch to the kick... Maybe a boost around 40-50?

jesus christ what is that hi hat.

Good job on the drums, but the guys playing this track need to tune up and tighten up. Sheesh.

Great tutorial. The hi hat could've used a lot more work though. It sounds terrible. It needs a rerecording.

I would've simply replaced everything with samples

It is always better to RERECORD such drums. I ALWAYS insist on rerecording. Session drummer, different studio, samples - whatever! I even refuse to mix such crappy tracks, because people DESERVE good sound. This is the reason I work everyday. Money is not the reason to accept something that is obviously BAD. Bad sound must be deleted and forgotten. Especially when bad sound is produced by a bad band that plays tasteless music.

That gtr is terrible. Sounds midi

They STILL sound like total crap. As the saying goes... Cant polish a turd. My 'solution' would be to sample replace the hell out of those!

Worst hats ever!

my god these sound bad

those guitars don't sound too good either......

Horrid guitar tone, but thats just me

Horrible recording 🤦🏻‍♂️

It sounds better, but it still sounds crappy. It's nothing on you Graham, the drums just sound awful to begin with

No matter what you do that Mix will never sound good