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Originally Posted by miqer 
- If it's real drums and bass, can you tell me a little how you track and/or mix them? I'm asking for I have tried to get some of that king tubby phatness into my mixes (like you seem to have in the VR_Drum Thief_mp3 from your website), but always when I turn up the kick or the bass too loud, the mid/highs suffer... you know... Do you have a lot of vintage stuff, or not so much? Using dynamic mic's on the drums?
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using Drum Thief as an example: drums were recorded to my Tascam 1/2" 8 track w/ two mics - 57 on snare, beta 52 on kick. the timbale hit at the top was picked up by the 57 since it was right next to it. at this point i should give props to my favorite drummer, Eddie Ocampo - he makes it very easy to record the kit. bass went direct through a Walter Woods amp, an amazing piece built with acoustic bass in mind. all recorded stupidly hot to Quantegy 456, solid red meters.
mixing, i normally put the bass on the bottom of the frequency spectrum, kick above it. roughly something like the bass living around 60 Hz and the kick up near 120 Hz...
the signals sound loud, so they don't have to actually be that loud in the mix, it's so one-dimensional that A) it always sounds loud and B) getting the effects to do their thing is easy. i'm also a 1kHz abuser so kick and bass will never cover the snare or other instruments.
when i mixed that track i only had Drawmer comps for the kit, DBX 160A for bass and the Amek 9098 on the mix. since then i've gone kind of crazy with comps - two 1176, two 5043, LA2A reissue, Distressor, C2 on the mix bus. yes, i've been hanging around GS a lot! i still like the Drawmer on the kick though, DL421. i like how it pops out of the gate.