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Getting your drums to pop through the mix - Ableton Live Tutorial
From the course: EDM Production Techniques: Drums
Getting your drums to pop through the mix
So how do you get your drums to pop if you wrote your bass line and sense first, and then added your drums later. Here are three methods to get your drums to pop out a bit more. First let me play you this loop. Now obviously you can hear there's a lot of content going on here, there's a lot of frequencies, and you're not able to hear the drums very well. So first we're going to start with side chain. So what side chain compression does, is it lowers the volume momentarily of a track when it's triggered by another track. So what we're going to do is put a compressor on the synth track, and we're going to use the kicker as a trigger. Let me show you how to do that. The first thing you're going to want to do is click this triangle to expand the compressor's options, and you're going to turn side chain on. Now, the audio input needs to come from the kick track, so select it there in your menu. Now what we're going to do is we're going to turn the ratio all the way up to infinite. We'll…
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Choosing sounds for your kick1m 54s
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Shaping your kick9m 24s
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Choosing sounds for your snare1m 40s
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Shaping your snare7m 47s
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Programming in the Arrange page8m 32s
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Working with drum loops in Drum Rack3m 8s
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Working with drum loops in Battery4m 25s
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Bussing drums for group processing7m 34s
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Finding unique sources for drums6m 1s
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Adding a human feel and/or groove6m 31s
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Creating transitions with drum fills and tape stops14m 31s
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Creative drum FX and automation in Drum Rack and the Arrange page4m 43s
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Working with clip-based automation2m 3s
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Creating reversed sounds and effects3m 25s
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Creating time-expansion glitch effects7m 41s
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The differences between channel and buss effects1m 46s
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EDM drum-mixing techniques10m 21s
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Getting your drums to pop through the mix2m 58s
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