Mixing a Hip-Hop/Trap Beat with Exciter and Compressor

Mixing a Hip-Hop/Trap Beat with Exciter and Compressor

Deep kick drums, snappy snares, and fast hi-hat rolls–these are the ingredients of a classic hip-hop or trap beat. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how use the Presence and C165a plugins to give your drums the final touch and make them pound by using a combination of...
Processing Industrial Drums with Grasso

Processing Industrial Drums with Grasso

So, we’ve been working on a little industrial tune lately. Everything is pretty much finished, except the drums sound a little dry and plain in their current state – time to change that! For this we reach for a real ‘Swiss Army Knife’ kind of plugin: the saturation...