How do YOU get your drums to SLAP???

I'm glad you took that comment to heart, despite the fact that the video in question, was a quick throw together and not likely meant to be a polished product? Either way, you humbled yourself and took the time to show us multiple ways to improve the presence of our drums. Big up!

That's why I like your videos, even though I'm not a producer. You are very positive, and have a growth mindset and want to lift people up. Rising tides lift all ships.

Anything called "Spank Level" is a winner in my book.

I appreciate your content and honesty ✌️🙏

I usually just put a compressor and saturator on the drum group. Then send a little reverb on a return track. Also send some Decapitator on a return track as well to brighten everything up

THanks so much man. I was using the sends to parallel before - this sounds so much better.

I think it‘s a lot easier to use a send/return in live so you can blend the compressed signal in with the send-level of the main drums. Just my opinion! Great channel and great content by the way! The best DnB Tutorial-Channel I’ve seen so far!!👍

Working with Addictive Drums today and bounced out the overhead and room channels separately as well as stems for each dry drum, then it’s just a question of getting a good blend between the three - this way you get the punch and transients of the dries and the thickness of the compressed/saturated room... which is basically what you’ve done here 😂

Great production tips!

I tend to use a bit of mid side compression with my drum buss as well

Limiting the kick & snare to edge of breakup. Limiting group and channel track are key.

Sound toys decapitator is the one for that 🤌🤌

When you adjust all the gains, it's good to make sure the sends are done pre-fafer otherwise you loose some of the effects when adjusting

These are great tips!! Thanks :) could we also use Aux tracks for these parallel FX?

"if your drums are quiet in the mix, just bring them up" no buddy, when there are other sounds clashing with your drums, it makes them perceived as quiet because of blanketing.

Texture wins over transient, especially when In the end everything is getting squashed up into a limiter. If the focus is on transient you have to think what will be left after said transients are clipped/limited. You could have the softest/quietest snare/kick in the world then side chain ur musical elements around it making it feel like it’s smacking your head off. We have to think about micro transients, ie. Texture. Loved this video, much respect 🫡

Density mk3 is my go to for this …it’s a free plugin

I would add a clipper to the Drum Bus at the end, give it a little more umph!

Thank you

Does it matter when everyone uses the same boring drum patterns these days?

The compression send sounds to me like it’s adding phase issues, maybe cause of the eq?

I love you Alan big ups

amazing........... im writing a track right now and the drums are alright but i just cant get them tweaked and eqd right to set in the mix properly. i know this is a lil old..... but thanks

What about side chaining EVERYTHING to kick and Snare AND Bus clipping...!

Do you think you would be able to recreate the sniper/tramen break?

Nice Drums

How dare they come for you. Even your trash should be revered. Never question a GOD.

Great videos mate you have taught me a lot this year. Can this be done in fl studio? i have routed each drum to a main BUS so far. Still pretty new myself

Paralell compression was a good choice to beef up the drums, but I think the hats have ended up a little being over-fried here

hey Stranjah, huge fan of your music and content. I wanted to ask if you could make a video on producing and mixing jumpup dnb rap vocals (grima azza mr traumatik harry shotta and that kinda stuff). Thank you a lot!

I don't understand the need for a return track or for sending everything to a separate audio track and blending the signals. Both Glue Compressor and Saturator devices have a Dry/Wet control. Wouldn't it also be parallel processing to just turn down the Dry/Wet on these devices? And if you wanted to add an EQ before them, just group them in an Audio Effect Rack and blend the dry signal that way. Seems easier then setting up and routing to additional tracks or returns.

This all describes my main point of criticism very well: a whole armada of plugins is used to fix a single problem. It's not the mix at all, but the simple selection of the sounds. I hear that the bass sounds are already quite sharp - why use a snare drum with a lot of noise on top? In my opinion, the snare should have more body and, above all, be shorter. The kick drum is just too quiet, but otherwise absolutely okay. If drum sounds sound a bit limp overall, an old MPC trick usually works best: simply layer a rimshot or a similar sound underneath. This is the best way to avoid this unspeakably inflationary use of compressors and other plugins; also drum sounds can sound much more powerful if you slightly put a folding distortion on it (doesn't work with any drum sound especially with acoustic drums but most electronic sounds). In the end, however, one should always ask oneself: Is the sound really better now or just different? Anyway, your sound usually is top shelf - you remember EgoTrippin? - Their drum sounds are always a bit floppy and still work in the mix. Oh wait, one other point: check the timing/phase of all the drums. In most cases that is the reason for weak sound in the mix. And only if these handcraft's jobs are done, then you can think about compression and other stuff to add the magic.

Lets do it!!!

is that a herman miller chair?

Can you make jump up/roller drums like critical impact?

What is the difference between distortion and saturation?

Less is more for loud. Gl

Funny, I read that comment as a criticism of the drums in jump up, in general. Not your specific drums. Which I think it acceptable critique of the genre, it's not a style that's really focused on complex drums, rather simple drums that work really well with a big chungus bassline. :) Oh well that's how I read that comment anyway.

I think it's just style difference, these modern clap-ish/white noise snares always sounds thinner/weaker than 90s techstep snares no matter how much effects were added. If that guy want really fat drums, just listen to Dom & Roland.

highs in this after processing are fucked

Anyone reckon the kick sounded better before he tampered with it?

The snare is the problem, it has a weak transient and the body also seems weak and flabby.

imo they sound a bit too compressed ? especially the kick because the lows are not that present anymore

Wait did you say solo spank level lol

Wouldn't it be more convenient to do it all on 1 channel by cmnd+G and creating ghost tracks ??? Peace & respect

Can you do a video on how to make phonk?

In the words of Saint Ice Cube ''You better check yo' self before you wreck yo' self'' (The Predator 13:2)

Need help with your ego? Eat more mushrooms 😂

no offense but these drums have too much high freqs... almost irritating

The drums at the end don't even sound any better. They just sound overly saturated anD distorted with barely any more body and power. Compare 1:10 to 11:02.

I guess my take om it is that you were just showing how to do jump up and not necessarily how to complete a track. Parallel processing is pretty well known imo. But whatever.

Boring and they still sound weak