Pro Tools 9: The Mixers Toolkit

In This Chapter

EQing Kick

Drum Compression

EQing Snare

Tom Processing

Phase-Checking Drums

Capturing Safety Drums

Manual Drum Replacement

Parallel Drum Compression

“All-Buttons-In” Compression

Adding Urgency to the Drums

Multiple Track Output Trick

7

Drum Mixing

Great! Now, it’s time to start really mixing our Kick and snare tracks. One approach that is common in mixing is to find a solid pattern in the middle of the song (often on a chorus), where we can set up a quick loop of Kick and snare that can just play, repeatedly, while we EQ and compress them. I’ve found a couple bars around 23 and 24 that work well. So switch on Loop Playback mode under the Options menu (Mac: Shift+Cmd+L, Win: Shift+Ctrl+L) or just right-click the Play button ...