Modern Rock Drums — Full Processing Chain Tutorial
In this tutorial I walk you through the complete processing chain for modern rock drums — from raw recorded tracks to a punchy, tight, mix-ready drum sound.
What we cover step by step:
🎛️ Drum Bus Compression
→ Why bus compression is the first thing I do — tighter, more cohesive drums
🎛️ Per-Track EQ with Total EQ MK2 Auto EQ
→ Removing inharmonic frequencies from kick, snare, overheads, and room mics
→ Tonal balance adjustment in seconds
🎛️ Kick Drum Processing
→ Sub kick + transient shaping with H76 compressor
→ -5dB gain reduction for controlled punch
🎛️ Snare Drum Processing
→ Multi-track EQ correction + bus EQ + high-pass + body enhancement
→ H76 for tight, controlled compression
🎛️ Overheads & Room Mics
→ High-pass filtering, brightness adjustments
→ H160 for subtle overheads compression
→ H76 on room mics for compressed ambience (-20dB gain reduction)
🎛️ Toms Processing
→ Auto EQ on each tom track + global bus EQ + analog saturation
🎛️ Final Result
→ Before/After comparison — the transformation is dramatic
Plugins used: Total EQ MK2, H76, H160, H4K Bus Compressor (all available as free demos at hornetplugins.com)
⏱️ Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:25 Drum bus compression starts here
01:51 Kick drum EQ with Auto Q
05:00 Kick compression with H76
06:01 Snare processing
10:39 Overheads EQ & compression
13:29 Room mics processing
13:29 Toms processing
23:40 Final before/after comparison
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