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Add body to the snare drum

Add body to the snare drum - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Add body to the snare drum

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- [Voiceover] I'm going to start this video by reading you another actual mix note I received, and it's a long one. "The overall snare sound could use some more body. It's very top-end heavy, but missing the fatness. There might be too much real snare, or that alt-snare in the mix. Maybe it's the cymbal bleed in the mics that I hear in the snare that's making it sound too top-end and aggressive. Maybe use some more of the samples." So the samples he's referring to is this producer added quite a number of samples to the mix. And in fact, when I addressed that note, that's exactly what I did. But since we're on the subject of the EQ glossary, I want to show you a different way I could have approached that. So to do that, I'm going to turn all these samples off, and deal with just the snare, the actual snare, top and bottom mic. I'll play you a little of the song first. ♫ I'm color-coding my moods - You can see that's pretty flat, only thing going on EQ-wise is this noise gate on the SSL…

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