I recently got Superior drummer 2.0 and expansions Metal machine and Metal foundry.
I was wondering if anyone has some experience with this program and working with it in Cubase 5. I get a ok sound, but it takes forever to get everything set up and usually i eq and mix for so long i tend to make the drums sound worse and then i'll start from scratch again.
This is my process, any advice and comments would be awesome.
Open up superior 2.0 and route the outputs of different mics to busses, then activate all outputs at the vst instruments menu to receive the signal from the busses in superior 2.0 - I then open metal foundry and xDrum a kick and snare from Metal machine expansion (find that the cymbals and hats sound better in Metal foundry)
Then I go to the mixer in Superior and reset all the outs to 0 db - then go to the kit and decrease the hats by 2db. Where would it be better to do the mixing, in Cubase like i am doing or in Superior?
I program a groove and in the mixer in cubase decrease all the channels to between -12db and -8db to leave headroom for eq and compression. I use Cubase plugins for that (any better ones???)
My general eq for all the channels in Cubase is Q step filter, cutting low @ 40Hz and -8db at 300hz with width set to smallest value (narrow cut)
Any advice on compression would be great and also reverb including plugins - and would you place the reverb on the specific drum channel or route a separate bus dedicated for reverb to save headroom?
thanx
I was wondering if anyone has some experience with this program and working with it in Cubase 5. I get a ok sound, but it takes forever to get everything set up and usually i eq and mix for so long i tend to make the drums sound worse and then i'll start from scratch again.
This is my process, any advice and comments would be awesome.
Open up superior 2.0 and route the outputs of different mics to busses, then activate all outputs at the vst instruments menu to receive the signal from the busses in superior 2.0 - I then open metal foundry and xDrum a kick and snare from Metal machine expansion (find that the cymbals and hats sound better in Metal foundry)
Then I go to the mixer in Superior and reset all the outs to 0 db - then go to the kit and decrease the hats by 2db. Where would it be better to do the mixing, in Cubase like i am doing or in Superior?
I program a groove and in the mixer in cubase decrease all the channels to between -12db and -8db to leave headroom for eq and compression. I use Cubase plugins for that (any better ones???)
My general eq for all the channels in Cubase is Q step filter, cutting low @ 40Hz and -8db at 300hz with width set to smallest value (narrow cut)
Any advice on compression would be great and also reverb including plugins - and would you place the reverb on the specific drum channel or route a separate bus dedicated for reverb to save headroom?
thanx