Breakdown of the mix of Ben Smith’s drums
The drummer for Heart, Ben Smith, helped me out with some drum tracks for one of the songs I co-wrote with Coreena, “If You Wanna”. We tracked the drums at the famous London Bridge Studio, which has a HUGE room, and then I mixed them in my own studio, DBAR Productions. Getting a good sound was easy since we had a killer drummer, with a great sounding drum kit, in a really great studio, going through an incredible Neve console! The challenge was to tighten up the drum sound as much as possible since there is a LOT of room sound that gets into all the microphones due to the huge room we recorded in. This song called for a really tight and punchy drum sound. I wanted to keep the natural sound of Ben’s drums, so I didn’t want to trigger any samples for this. This video shows a track by track breakdown of the drums for the mix of the song.
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