Hey all,
In dbkits you've put together, which Group do you place ride cymbals in? So far, I've put rides in Group 4, along with high hats for little better reason than I think of using rides in a manner similar to hats. But more recently, in terms of mixing, I have been wondering whether it would be better to put rides in Group 5, where I have placed other cymbals? Would that possibly be more realistic in terms of typical drum mic'ing techniques? (About which I know virtually nothing, being almost entirely a "Doggiebox drummer"! ;))
The question came up because I have been mixing a new recording with DB drums in GarageBand, and I found that for one section where I switched from hats to rides, my rides were pretty low in the mix unless I ramped up the Master Volume controls for the individual ride sample Variants fairly aggressively in the dbkit editor. I haven't tried moving the rides over from Group 4 to Group 5 (wish there was a way to drag and drop Instruments, with all their Variants, between Groups! Or adjust the Master Volume settings for a whole set of Instrument Variants at once!) because I don't want to go through all that work as an experiment :) but I am wondering how this is approached by you others out there .....
Cheers,
Carl
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Carl Edlund Anderson
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