Clean up your drum overheads without making your cymbals sound painfully harsh
Have you ever picked up a new record from a band you loved but found you couldn’t make it all the way through because of how harsh the cymbals sounded?
It can be tricky to clean up drum overheads for a present, modern drum sound, but paying attention to detail at this step will save your listeners ears later, I promise!
In this video, I take you through the processing on my main drum overhead tracks in this mix, including the exact EQ, compression, limiting, and saturation settings I used. More importantly, I talk about how I made these choices so that the final result sounds modern and natural without any painful or harsh high frequencies.
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