drum reverb > drum bus minor idea
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:47 am
This isn't rocket surgery, but if I've run across this I don't recall, but surely nothing I invented. This is very genre and mix dependent obviously, but lately I'v changed my signal flow a bit and I'm really liking the results.
Simplified description:
Normally I route all drums to a drum bus aux with some compression, with sends on the individual drum channels routed to a reverb aux (or 2 or 3) routed to the master bus.
Lately what I started doing is the same except I'm routing the reverb INTO the drum aux bus. This is on a relatively natural sounding drum kit, not EDM or metal or whatever. Using a fairly natural reverb and running it into the drum bus seems to pull the kit together and sound more like a drum set than individual drums, especially for a bit more intimate non-bombastic sound. I'm not using super-heavy compression on the drum aux, more like a glue (in fact I use Cytomic's 'The Glue' quite a bit on the drum and/or master bus).
Just an idea.
Simplified description:
Normally I route all drums to a drum bus aux with some compression, with sends on the individual drum channels routed to a reverb aux (or 2 or 3) routed to the master bus.
Lately what I started doing is the same except I'm routing the reverb INTO the drum aux bus. This is on a relatively natural sounding drum kit, not EDM or metal or whatever. Using a fairly natural reverb and running it into the drum bus seems to pull the kit together and sound more like a drum set than individual drums, especially for a bit more intimate non-bombastic sound. I'm not using super-heavy compression on the drum aux, more like a glue (in fact I use Cytomic's 'The Glue' quite a bit on the drum and/or master bus).
Just an idea.
