This week’s tutorial is a step-by-step guide to exciting your drums.
Drums are an important component in modern day music. Adding extra, punch & power to your drums can help your drums become more appealing to your clients & listeners.
In this video, we will breakdown how to add this extra punch & power by exciting your drums using a small amount of distortion & blending to taste. This easy to understand quick tutorial gives you all the steps needed to add that extra special something to your drums!
Follow along as professional engineer Eric “Realistic” Michael breaks down his techniques to exciting your drums.
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REALISTIC PRODUCTIONS (Engineer)
Realistic is a music producer and engineer located in the Twin Cities. He has been producing music for Hip-Hop & Pop music since 2004. In 2017 he graduated with an AAS in Music Production & Engineering. He is a producer for Pharaoh & Alexis Krystine. Realistic is SoundOracle’s head engineer in which he mixes/masters the loop & drum kits for SoundOracle.net & mixes for the websites mixing service as well.
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