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EQ your kick to sound present and hit hard without taking over the mix

Kick drum Live drum tracks Metalcore Mixing

Welcome to the “From Start To Finish [Metalcore]” series where I am digging into a Metalcore mix I recently completed and explaining some of the lessons I learned and tools I used along the way.

What’s this all about?

Have you ever struggled with getting a live kick-in track to cut through a dense mix without sounding too thin, or too sub-heavy? Well, you are in the right place!

In this video, I discuss how I EQ’d the live kick-in track in this mix, including how I used the Waves SSL Channel and FabFilter’s Pro Q3.

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