| I produced and engineered the "Genesis" CD by Job For A Cowboy and would be happy to help you.
I'm not sure if Andy Sneap used the drum sounds we sent him when he mixed "Genesis", but I made samples of Elliott playing the soft, medium, and hard hits on the snare. I made samples of the close mic'd snare and also the snare through the overhead and room mics and kept them on separate tracks. Once the drums were quantized, I duplicated the snare track and then went through by hand (using Tab to Transient and Beat Detective) and placed the samples.
For blast beats and fills I used the medium strength hits (4 different samples) and alternated them to make the overall effect a bit more realistic and less machine-gun sounding. Everything else got alternating heavy hits. The idea was to have some really clean close-mic'd sounds so that they could be heavily EQ'd and compressed to help the drums punch through. The samples I placed were on the top snare, toms, and kick. I left the bottom snare alone and also left a copy of the original snare track for blending purposes.
I can't speak for Mr. Sneap, but in my experience once the drums are edited and (if you use them) the samples are in place, it's really just a matter of getting the EQ and compression right so that the drums cut through the guitars and bass. Not sure what Andy did specifically though.
Hope this helps! |