3 Secrets To Mixing Metal Drums (From home-produced tracks!)

Fact: You can produce 100% professional-sounding results when mixing metal drums at home within your DAW without a single piece of analog or high-end gear…

Even if the drums were recorded in an untreated project studio through budget microphones and an inexpensive USB interface.

The trick is to massage your drum tracks in ways that allow them to sound like a single unified instrument within the mix.

In this tutorial, I share my 3 favorite drum mixing techniques for producing studio-quality drum tracks, right within my DAW, from home-produced drum tracks.

Mixing metal drums doesn’t have to be complicated if you know what to look out for.

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About

My name is Bobby Torres and I’ve been a full-time audio engineer/producer/mixer within the metal and hard rock genres for well over a decade.

I’m on a mission to put an end to all of the false information that leads aspiring producers and mixers down a never-ending path of confusion, wasted money, wasted time and very little progress.

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