Members alcohol Posted July 1, 2007 Members Share Posted July 1, 2007 I have never made this mistake before. While doing a series of drum tracks I forgot to put up a Bass Drum track in Pro Tools. Used Beat Detective on a room mic. Spent about an hour and a half deleting all the drums that were not bass drum, went to an earlier file and used three bass drum samples and then Sound Replacer. It was a cheat, but you can't hear the difference from the other tracks. What was cool was that I didn't have to buy this plug-in. Digidesign rents it for various amounts. I took the 2 days for $10, that way I didn't have to spend the $395 (???) to own the plug in and saved hours doing the replacing by hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted July 1, 2007 Moderators Share Posted July 1, 2007 Ha! I just did something like that last night. While I was tracking a whole albums worth of drums a few weeks back, on one tune, I routed the input to the snare channel from the kick pre. The end result being redundant kicks and no snare. It was purely a software routing issue. Last night I put Drumagog across a duplicate of my OH's and triggered a new snare. Printed it, then edited out the mistriggers from tom fills. It took 20 minures. The upside was this particular tune was crying out for a more gimmicky snare anyway so I printed it with some cool oversquashing and it's own whacked out modulation and cool/cheesy gated verb. Like magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 I hate to admit it, but I've had to use SR in a similar manner. I normally use two microphones on kick drums - a dynamic inside and a Yamaha Subkick outside... and in my haste in setting up the session, I had both tracks up, but was sourcing both from the dynamic mic on one song. Oops. No worries - I just opened one of the other sessions / songs where I had routed / tracked everything correctly, snagged some Subkick samples and used the accidentally "duplicated" dynamic mic track and replaced everything with the Subkick samples. Worked great. And because I was going "over" a reasonably well isolated kick track, I really didn't have to worry about editing out bleed from other drums... although I've had to do that more than once in order to try to get more snare from a drummer who bashed the brass and lightly tapped the skins... ...and that's tedious and takes a while. But it's nice to be able to fix stuff like that after the fact, especially if the drummer has already gone home. Otherwise, a retrack might be a better / quicker idea... depending on the drummer's "skill" level of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Matt Hepworth Posted July 2, 2007 Members Share Posted July 2, 2007 I've used Drumagog in a similar fashion, but used to augment some premixed drums with a new kick drum. Worked pretty well. Drumagog has the filter that allowed pretty good separation (after EQing the duplicate first), that I was able to easily augment the kick. Took about 2 minutes. Recently, though. I double routed the mic only bass signal to the bass DI. I needed that DI. Oh well, we ended up recutting the bass to the songs. Where's bassagog when you need it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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