How To Process Electronic Drums

Drum processing  - it's pretty pivotal to most electronic music, but it's easy to overload or underload the mix, so this handy guide will show you how to make your drums sound more good. In the video, the mysteriously named Ø goes through a tutorial on processing the whole drum kit as one instrument, with a decidedly Napoleon Dynamite vibe. Fans of Underbelly will enjoy this one! Some solid advice and plenty to learn here - not necessarily restricted to Ableton Live. More details here...
 

This is just a basic intro to the art of mixing drums. Particularly electronic drums. Most of these things actually apply to acoustic drums as well. But those are a bit more involved I would say. But most of the same principles would apply.

The thing that's great about sampled drums is.. they are already pretty much engineered to sound good out of the box. So trying to individually process them is a bit of a futile venture. I mean, instead of doing that, why wouldn't you just select a different sample or something that is closer to what you want instead of trying to jam a square peg into a round hole? I don't know it seems like a bit of a waste of time to me.

I will be diving deep into each of the main processing topics, like EQ and compression and whatnot in future installments. They will get their own videos. 

I also have some other special topics in mind. I wanna do a video where I record my own samples, for instance.

Drum machines. Synthesizers. Other keywords. The quick brown fox  jumps over the lazy dog. 

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