Burial of Silence Mix

[spoonfcrs]

Hi!

I think V2 is a step in the right direction, but there is something about the openness of V1 that I like, so maybe find a middle ground.

Also, looks like you used some triggering.....sounds like some hits are missing in spots (but that roll at towards the end sounds killer!) If you go that route, use the overheads as a guide (which you probably already know). Not sure how you set up your triggers, but when things are recorded so wonky (but not the wonkiest by any stretch ha), you may need to edit out everything but each tom hit on the trigger tracks to compensate for the weak tom hits and strong everything else hits :/.....even going so far as using extreme volume automation between hits. Sometimes just using filtering on the triggers isn't enough and ALWAYS a PITA though!

Really dug that little vocal repeater thing.....reminded me of some Static-X for some reason.

Just my 1 1/2 cents.

So- for the triggers I actually used reagate, sending to midi every time it opened, with a pretty fast hold and tight threshold. listening back, i'm not hearing a lot of missed hits, or the toms just aren't being picked up. like for example on tom 5, i'm not convinced anything gets played there. i think overheads would be hard to use as triggers for this gate method because of how loud the highhats are. but, using them as a guide, i'm not sure where i missed. i'll look at the waveforms when i get home.

before the gate trigger in the chain, i ggated really hard and used debleeder so that only toms were coming through and some snare transients if they were played quickly after the tom hits. so no automation was needed because i was hard gating. unless i'm dumb- do people still automate with hard gates? I don't know. i don't do real drums often.

and yeah i actually preferred v1 to v2. i like really bright guitars as long as they don't hurt the ears. but, listening to the original after the first comment in this thread, i decided to darken them up.

how did you set up your triggers?