Logic

Tidy up your tom hits with this ingenious gating trick!

DAVID RICARD

As I’ve previously discussed in this column, mixing live drums presents an array of challenges that, fortunately, Logic Pro is well equipped to help us overcome. Today I want to talk specifically about the toms. In most drum recording situations, the bleed from the snare and cymbals is so prevalent in the tom’s spot mics that it interferes with the overall balance in an undesired way. Think about it: you’ve worked diligently to get your kick and snare sounding perfect, you bring in the overheads and the overall picture begins to emerge. Now you start fading in the tom tracks and the entire sound and image of the drum kit are changed. It sounds as if you’ve added four badly placed room mics to the mix. Cleaning up the tom tracks…

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