Dark Ride: 'Hammer Down'

[mikej]

Snares. To be honest I'd strongly suggest asking someone else .

For me:

Chris Lord-Alge, Tom Lord-Alge, David Bendeth, Dan Korneff, Andy Sneap. Green Day (American Idiot), One OK Rock, Paramore (Riot!), Judas Priest (Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Arena)

Mike Senior has some full Reaper mix sessions you can download + it has screenshots of all the plugins you don't own.... I think one of the Magician's Nephew tracks has just eq on the drum kit and only a compressor on the drum bus, from memory. That was a bit of a revelation. Learned a lot from that session.

Mixing wise -

Some/all/none of:

Checking phase and alignment
Snare top, not much snare bottom
200Hz, 8KHz boost into compressor (also eq after the compressor if you need a touch more boost)
Slow attack, fast release (1176 style)
..Or no channel compression
Good balance with rooms & overheads
eq the rooms
saturation/distortion
classy sounding reverb
trashy sounding reverb
parallel compression
samples
cut out any bad hits and paste in better ones
80's gated reverb (trigger the gate after the reverb from the snare)
Drum Bus Compressor
No Drum Bus Compressor


There's a lot of info in this thread. Don't beat yourself up too much. Give it a little time to try things out (like at least year or two in my case) and find out what works for you and what doesn't.

Cheers!