Ultimately it comes back to the point of, “Okay, that part clear, add the drums so you’ve got the Kevin Kimmel did a lot of broadcast, ran all the
you’re saying the drums are too loud, why are energy of it, and that’s sort of my mix triangle. big stages at Disney, and did all their big events
you mic’ing them? Is it coming through your Then I just start dropping in everything else. with the CEO of Disney. He worked at CBS
P.A.? Why? It’s already too loud.” There is a So don’t start by bringing up the drum faders for a while, and he was on tour when he was
time for an electric kit, there is a room that gets if they’re too loud, because all you’re doing is growing up. One of the things I really want him
that small, but I try to avoid it because I think making it louder and everything has to try to to talk about is the difference between front of
the energy off it is completely different and it’s get up to that. house and monitors. There’s a totally different
different for the drummer.
mentality there. By the way, if you have two
So there are tricks like that. Another thing I see people, a front of house person and a monitor
So, you do all of these things to get the stage is people pushing the solo button and trying person, the monitor person should probably
volume down, mic it properly, and then you to get that channel to sound right. It doesn’t be the more outgoing person, because the
think, ok, there’s a certain amount of noise matter what it sounds like by itself, what does monitor person has to interact with the band a
coming from the stage, how do I create the it sound like in the group? Once you get the lot more. The more you’re part of that team the
compliment to that? When I’m starting to mix mix and it’s clear, when you solo something up better everyone is going to feel. These are all life
and I’m worried that the drums are too loud, it might sound mid rangy or whatever, but it lesson type of things.
when I start pulling up faders, maybe I don’t doesn’t matter because in the entire group you bring up the drum faders first. Start by forcing sliced little areas for things to fill in. That’s what [WM] Can you tell us a bit about how this
yourself to control things. If I’ve got that much creates this lack of competition for your ear and whole thing came together?
drums in the room I’m going to pull up the you can start to pick things out a little easier. bass, pull up the vocalist. I’ve got this little The point is, don’t try to make every instrument [Patrick] I used to work at Yamaha, and we’d
triangle idea from music theory, if you’ve got sound completely full, because that’s not what done events like this before. The problem with
your melody and you’ve got your bass, your ear is going to work in the mix. working for a manufacturer is that you can
will automatically fill in the rest. So if you can get
only promote that manufacturer. Yamaha is big
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