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Remove snare ring

Remove snare ring - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Remove snare ring

- [Voiceover] There's a delicate balance between having too much snare head ring and too little. Too little snare head ring can just kinda kill the life out of a snare track. And too much can just dwarf all the other tone that you're trying to capture from the snare. Sometimes like if I'm tracking it myself, I'll even misjudge how to tune the snare and how much to damp it and how to set it up properly for recording. Other times I'm sent tracks to mix where the snare head is way too ringy and just rings out, just dominates the mix in an unappetizing way so to speak. So what we did to show you this here is we got the worst tuned snare that we could find in my studio. And recorded a little bit of drums, so check this out. (drums playing) That continual ring hanging in there could really just get in the way of a good mix. So let's see what we can do here. One of the first tricks I do quite a bit is to just put a simple one band eq on and see if I can get some of that out. I set this one…

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