Introducing MixHead our newest plugin in collaboration with Metric Halo. MixHead has been a secret weapon on some of the biggest songs in history and is now available for you to strap across the two bus of your next release!!
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@jonathanroye is an absolute power house in the Nashville scene. Like many of the top engineers Jonathan is using the MixHead on his 2 bus to get his mixes across the finish line!!
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Drum verbs as was shown to me years ago.
I use these on every mix. Its 4 different reverbs adding up to 1 sound. Sometimes all 4. Sometimes 1. Sometimes none. No rules buuuut think of these as “1 sound” - Its a blend of 4 returns culminating in 1 reverb sound.
Send full tilt into them and bring the returns up under the kit adding some glue or air or whatever word you want to use to describe it. Experiment with more or less in different combinations. Turn the screen off and use your ears if you have some faders to grab. It’s the way. Automation is your friend as well. Less in the verses / more in the chorus. You know what to do.
I always conceptualize reverbs into 2 main categories. Is it a good sounding reverb or a bad sounding reverb? I believe you really need both on a record. For drums, a lot of the time you’re gonna be wanting shorter tails. 1 sec or shorter. All of these float around that.
Snare Drums head to the Sony DRE 2000. Its an old cool digital box thats mostly impossible to find these days. I like Altiverb. Send the bottom snare mic or the sample to it. Less bleed the better. (If its a programmed snare or pop thing I’ll load up a non lin from an AMS instead of the Sony)
Toms and low impacty sounding things will go to an EMT 246 on the short setting. It’s an older digital box from decades ago thats mostly impossible to find. Altiverb saves the day here. PSP Audio makes an EMT 2445 that will also get you in the game.
Overheads / Cymbal swells / Reverses / Whatever I’ll send to a Bricasti M7. I use the Seventh Heaven plugin for this.
Room mics / Perc I’ll send to a Yamaha Rev 7 - Also an old digital box thats hard to find. Altiverb to the rescue here as well. Low key Dverb is rad in this instance.
*Note - I’m running SSL 4k channel strips behind all of these aux returns. Just like working on a desk. I’m always eq’ing and filtering my reverbs / delays. I like the Softube Console One 4k, The drive knob gives me life. Use whatever your favorite is.
It’s a mess of a lot of plugins and routing but its fun, creative and not boring. Lock it into your template and you only have to build it once.
Ok bye.
Love the Sontec and it immediately found a new home on my mix bus. It just has a way of opening up a record musically without sounding "EQd". More please." - @jonathanroye
The Sontec is now available on all platforms as well as on sale right now!!
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